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A Ph.D in Progress: By the Numbers Posted on October 26, 2015 | No Comments Today I start my written preliminary exams to start the process of moving from a Ph.D student to a Ph.D candidate. What has that process looked like so far? 5: The number of semesters I ve been enrolled as a Ph.D student. 26,065: The number assigned pages of reading I ve completed. I didn t keep track of any extra reading done for writing papers, etc. 11,529: The number of those pages I ve read in the past 17 weeks. 51: The average number of pages I ve read every day, including the weekends, during the semester. You can see samples of those pages below. [ ] Continue Reading... 1August 29, 2015The Unknowable by Gregory Chaitin Gregory Chaitin s The Unknowable is billed as the companion volume to his Limits of Mathematics, though it also, in many ways stands on its own. In this work, Chaitin sets out to explain the way that his work follows from Godel s Incompleteness Theorem and Turing s Halting Problem. The story begins with the mathematician David Hilbert pioneering the field of metamathematics as a way to eliminate all doubts about the efficacy and power of mathematics. However, this process ultimately failed, instead revealing the fundamental uncertainty that underlies mathematics. However, the result of this failure was a large role in the development of the [ ] 0July 29, 2014Economics of Attention Ch 5-8 Chapter 5 In Chapter 5, Lanham attempts to highlight the two different ways of seeing once again, through an at or through form of attention. Focusing in one way tends to mean we don t focus in the other way. For example, Lanham gives the research who specializes in a topic, and can even teach that topic well, but struggles to put it in context in a survey course of his or her field. Here he focuses on the joy available through play of living life working at something rather than thinking about the success that comes through something. Interestingly, the example he gives of play is the geneticist Barbara [ ] 0June 11, 2014Economics of Attention Ch4: An Alphabet that Thinks Back to Chapter 3.  I know you re wondering about the image. I ll get there! In this chapter, Lanham explains that ebooks have almost entirely attempted to simply reproduce print books. This is so much the case, that often the ebooks you find for sale are just PDF copies of the original book. Why would this be the case? Why wouldn t ebooks instead try to leverage elements of their existence that make them unique? Why not draw more heavily on sounds and images, and movement, etc? He suggests a few possible reasons, including the early commercial failure of CD-ROMS that [ ] 0February 11, 2013Moral Monday: The Wedding of River Song Merry Moral Monday! Several of us—JustHeath included—here at Philosophy Matters are purveyors of the British science fiction series Doctor Who.  In fact, J J Sylvia, the founder of the website, has even written a very good chapter in a  centered on the philosophy of the television program.  This past Saturday night, I happened to catch an episode on MPB, the Mississippi affiliate of PBS that will serve as a starting point for today’s moral dilemma. So, come along [Ponds], and…Geronimo! “The Wedding of River Song” (2011) In the  finale, the show’s main protagonist, the Doctor, has to save the entire [ ] 0February 4, 2013Movie Monday: The Meaning of Life “There s everything in this movie, / Everything that fits. / From the Meaning of Life in the universe, / To girls with great big tits. / We ve got movie stars and foreign cars, / Explosions and the lot / Filmed as only we know how, / On the budget that we ve got. / We spent a fortune on locations / And quite a bit on drink / And there s even the odd philosophical joke, / Just to make you buggers think. / Yet some parts are as serious / And as deep as you could wish / But largely it s [ ] 1January 14, 2013Moral Monday: The Hellgramite Method Bonjour, mes amis! Well, it’s been precipitating quite a bit here recently in the Golden Triangle region, so I’ve been catching up on the 1980’s reincarnation of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone (TTZ).  Much like Gene Roddenberry’s original Star Trek, TTZ are often a mix of science fiction and morality tales.  We emphasize critical thinking and ethical decision-making a lot here at Philosophy Matters, and TTZ does not disappoint as a topical tool.  I think I’m going to be using more of TTZ episodes in postings because I have found them effective discussion pieces in my classes.  So, get ready [ ]

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