Monthly Archives: December 2008

Teaching Environmental Ethics

By John Basl | Published: December 23, 2008
A comment by a professor here at UW has me thinking about ways to teach an environmental ethics course. One standard, or at least one natural, trajectory for an entry level environmental ethics course to take is to start with questions of moral status (e.g., who or what deserves to be considered in moral deliberations [...]
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Technology for Philosophers: Read It Later (FFox Add-on)

By John Basl | Published: December 17, 2008
I’ve been using an add-on for Firefox called “Read It Later’ for some time now. Read It Later, as the name implies, lets you file away a site to be read later. I find this really invaluable when during office hours a student stops in while I’m browsing a page. If the page is something I [...]
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Twitter?!?!

By John Basl | Published: December 15, 2008
So, since publishing a list of philosophers and the like who use Twitter, traffic on the site has been way up. Unfortunately, since it is finals week and I have grading, papering, and test taking to deal with I haven’t been able to post. I have three drafts of posts waiting in wings. I’ll be [...]
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