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The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…
I can’t—seriously speaking—imagine anyone doing “philosophy of sexuality” work, as the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy calls it, having an easy…
I guess I should have spent more time mastering Latex (and grammar). Maybe I should’ve added a couple years to…
I would code that as “\emph{1–2 years}” — the functor on the basis of ‘conceptual not visual’ characterization, the en-dash…
My specialization is AI, and I’m very, *very* skeptical. My graduate studies were in math, an area where I would…
I sympathize with anyone who had to spend \textit{1-2 years} of their PhD struggling with Latex. There’s a learning curve,…
There are a lot of things that are built into time to graduate, such as course loads, working up to…
Professor Cowie, who worked at the intersections of philosophy of psychology, biology. and linguistics, had taught at the California Institute of Technology since 1992. The Cal Tech memorial notice is here.
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