Philosophy

 Astonishing!

Just for the pure joy of it,

Putting a humorous coda on recent dust-ups between Physics and Philosophy (Leiter Reports), Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal describes the life-cycle of a physicist below the fold.

A pity the title is sexist: This is absolutely fearless. (Courtesy Boing Boing.)

Courtesy Boing Boing, we have a vector pdf logical fallacies poster in various sizes from yourlogicalfallacyis.com. 

The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that,

If you’re a psychologist, the news has to make you a little nervous—particularly if you’re a psychologist who published an article in 2008 in any of these three journals: Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, or the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Because, if you did, someone is going to check your work. A group of researchers have already begun what they’ve dubbed the Reproducibility Project, which aims to replicate every study from those three journals for that one year. The project is part of Open Science Framework, a group interested in scientific values, and its stated mission is to “estimate the reproducibility of a sample of studies from the scientific literature.” This is a more polite way of saying “We want to see how much of what gets published turns out to be bunk.”

The entire Reproducibility Project is explained here.

Please join the students of the Genocide course from 10:00 - 3:00 today, Wednesday April 18, in Garcia Plaza as we conduct a solemn ceremony reading the names of children who perished in the Holocaust.