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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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Category: Passing thoughts
The younger Free-Ride offspring's soccer team has been playing in a regional tournament this weekend, and we're girding our loins and guarding our shins to go out and play a second day of tournament games. I'm happy that they're playing...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:22 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Because, as it happens, I tend to notice patterns in student papers, then end up musing on them rather than, you know, buckling down and just working through the stack of papers that needs grading. In my philosophy of science...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:35 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
Some of those questions bring people to this blog.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:10 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:19 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
Actually, it might be a philosophical question.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:06 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:56 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:11 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
Not that there won't be others ...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:40 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.)...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:30 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
