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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate 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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Philosophy:

People with search engines have questions.

Category: Passing thoughts

Some of those questions bring people to this blog.

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Basic concepts: Truth.

Category: Basic concepts

No, I'm not going to be able to get away with claiming that truth is beauty, and beauty, truth. The first issue in understanding truth is recognizing that truth is a property of a proposition. (What's a proposition? A proposition...

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The sprogs raise an important scientific question.

Category: Kids and science

Actually, it might be a philosophical question.

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Science isn't the only academic field with an overabundance of XYs.

Category: Academia

Via Twitter, PalMD wondered if I'd seen this brief item on the New York Times Idea of the Day blog. Writing in The Philosophers' Magazine, Brooke Lewis says tallies of full-time faculty at top American and British colleges show women...

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Great moments in scientific reasoning.

Category: Curricular issues

In my philosophy of science class yesterday, we talked about Semmelweis and his efforts to figure out how to cut the rates of childbed fever in Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s. Before we dug into the details, I mentioned...

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One parenting mistake we are unlikely to make.

Category: Passing thoughts

Not that there won't be others ...

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Information that may undercut my credibility with you as a professional philosopher.

Category: Academia

I guess I suspected that this might be a problem, but it really sank in when a close colleague told me the other day that he was freaked out by it. And I'd hate to have you hear it from...

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Reader mail.

Category: Academia

In my inbox today: I'm curious, what credentials (academic or otherwise) does one need to become a philosopher? For the purposes of employment in a university philosophy department, a graduate degree in philosophy (usually a Ph.D. but sometimes an M.A.)...

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Who's a scientist?

Category: Tribe of Science

At Philosophers' Playground, Steve Gimbel ponders the pedagogically appropriate way to label William Dembski: I'm wrapping up work on my textbook Methods and Models: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science and have run into a question. ... The...

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In which the elder Free-Ride offspring channels Descartes.

Category: Kids and science

At bedtime, after the reading of the stories, the younger Free-Ride offspring lay upon Dr. Free-Ride's better half, and Dr. Free-Ride's better half responded by making strangling noises. Of course, I called in from the other room to remind the...

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