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Speech recognition software for academic writing?

A former student, now studying at the University of Maryland, writes with a request: If anyone has had success using speech recognition software for academic writing, philosophy in particular, Mark Engleson would appreciate any suggestions on selection and use of...

Plato, Heidegger, Strauss, and Fascism

Alan Gilbert (Denver) and Hilary Putnam (Harvard) discuss.

More on Howell, the Religion Adjunct at Illinois

IHE raises some interesting issues here.

Whom do you write like?

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 15--SEE UPDATE Maybe this site will tell you, or maybe it's just nonsense. Using two different blog postings, I was told that I write like Margaret Atwood (whom I've never read) and then Isaac Asimov....

Democracy is Doomed, Part 172

Facts, schmacks. (Thanks to Phil Gasper for the pointer.)

On Fascism, American-Style

Reader Tim Beaumont sends along a link to this old but fine essay by Henry Wallace, that we've had occasion to remark on previously. Much of the analysis is alarmingly timely, e.g., "The American fascist would prefer not to use...

The University of Virginia Defends Academic Freedom!

UVA has now gone to court to put a stop to the harassment by the Attorney General. That's very good news for UVA and its faculty, and a credit to the Administration. (Thanks to Antonio Lolordo for the pointer.)

"12 Modern Philosophers": Which Will Be Read and Studied A Century Hence?

I just got a copy of 12 Modern Philosophers, ed. by Belshaw & Kemp (Wiley-Blackwell), containing illuminating essays (based on the three I've read so far) about Davidson, Quine, Kripke, Rawls, Singer, Parfit, Williams, Nozick, Nagel, Rorty, McDowell, and Fodor....

NEH Summer Stipends--But No Defending a "Philosophical" Point of View?

This is very odd, and, one hopes, it is simply the product of just bad writing: NEH summer stipends may not be used for "projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view." Won't...

Everything you need to know about U.S. foreign policy (and the domestic budget deficit)...

...is available from these four charts--plus. I guess it also helps to have read Thucydides.