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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Passing thoughts:

Death is not an option: end of semester edition.

Which do you choose? Behind door #1:...

Busy.

I have at least six things I really want to write blog posts about at the moment, but the day job is a harsh mistress. So instead of a content-laden post, you get a list so you can play along...

Cult Book Meme.

I'm still grading, but Bikemonkey tagged me on a book meme and I really want to cross something off my to-do list tonight, so here it is. The rules: books you've read in bold and books you started but never...

Pop quiz.

Captivated by the colors I saw, I took this picture today. Any guesses as to what it is?...

Do jokes reveal something about who you're talking to?

On April Fool's Day, our local Socrates Café had an interesting discussion around the question of what makes something funny. One observation that came up repeatedly was that most jokes seem aimed at particular audiences -- at people who share...

Evidence that the kids might be getting too much public radio.

As we're listening to Weekend Edition, the younger Free-Ride offspring asks, "Why don't they ever have weekend subtraction?" (I think it was the elder Free-Ride offspring, years ago, who asked why Morning Edition had puppet words. It took us a...

A question for those who teach.

Do you ever get to the point where if you haven't checked your syllabus within the last few hours, you have no confidence that you actually know what day it is? Or is it just me?...

A tax-related question.

Actually, a few of them. Since we sent our tax return off already, the answers to the questions probably doesn't have much practical import, but here they are: Y'all know that I get paid a (pretty modest) amount for blogging....

Silly hypothesis, meet snarky retort.

In case those readers trained in analytic philosophy managed to miss it, this comment at A Philosophy Job Market Blog gave me the giggles while striking me as an entirely appropriate response (given the audience) to a lazy reliance on...

Song chart meme: for two-two-two geeks in one.

Some screechy monkey or other tagged me on the song chart meme. The idea seems to be to come up with a visual/graphical representation of a song or some lyrical subset of it. In other words, you can get your...

Enough is enough. I quit.

It's time to unplug from the ScienceBorg....

My world is collapsing to a singularity.

Well, light can still escape the gravitational pull of my world, but it does feel like it's getting noticeably smaller. Three recent data points:...

A desk of one's own.

Regular readers of this blog know that I am hoping to be on a sabbatical leave during academic year 2008-2009. Indeed, some of you have asked, "Where are you going to go?" The answer:...

The future of philosophical discourse.

Get with the times and end that proof right!

Ask a ScienceBlogger, sort of: my life in half a dozen words.

Once again, Dave Ng at The World's Fair issues a challenge: If you had to write your memoirs in 6 words, what would they be? Writing that memoir today, here are mine: Chemist. Philosopher. Parent. Blogger. Grown-up? Someday. Six words...

Blogiversary programming notes.

Hey, today is the third anniversary of my first post on "Adventures in Ethics and Science" at the original digs. I can honestly say that when I started the blog as a virtual extension of class discussions in my "Ethics...

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