…Broaden your horizons in the new year with everyone’s favorite philosophy of science database. Here are some tricks to ease the experience. Get Started Reading Books and Articles on the Cheap. Trying to save money this year? Stop paying so much to read! Get Started Learning General Relativity Online. Free general relativity — what more could you ask for in 2009? Get Started Improving Your Philosophical Apparel. Get a new look for the new year. Her…
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…than $200. Nevertheless, let it be known that an electronic copy of this book does is circulating on the inter-tubes. If you look around a bit, you’ll likely be able to find and download a copy for free. Just throwing that out there. See also my advice about reading on the cheap, and about learning GR online. This list was inspired by a recent post over at It’s Only a Theory — further suggestions are more than welcome. Happy reading! (*) Added Fe…
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…ilosophia Mathematica Oxford University Press Philosophical Quarterly Wiley-Blackwell Philosophical Review Duke University Press Philosophical Studies Springer Verlag Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Wiley-Blackwell Philosophy Compass Blackwell Publishing Philosophy of Science University of Chicago Press Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Wiley-Blackwell Ratio Blackwell Publishing Review of Symbolic Logic Cambridge University Press St…
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…Montréal! A few facts of interest: Montréal is the second largest city in Canada. It’s slightly smaller than Phoenix, AZ and slightly larger than Marseille, Fr. Nearly 2 out of 3 people in the city are native French speakers. The weather in November is usually 28° to 50° F (-2° to 13° C) and rainy. The conference is at the Hyatt Regency in Old Montréal, which dates back to the 17th century. The nearby hill, called “Mont Royal” (hence Montréal) wa…
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…he file is in a Dropbox folder. Quicksilver. This is why I own a mac. It’s free from Blacktree.com. If you’re new to it, try this beginner’s guide. To set up the ‘Append’ and ‘Completed’ functions seen in the screencast: On the Quicksilver > Plugins page, add the ‘Text Manipulation Actions’ plugin. Then make sure ‘Append’ box is checked on the Preferences > Actions page. Now you can append text to any .TXT file — but only files with that extension…
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