Category Archives: Research Tools

Confession: I’m dissatisfied with writing philosophy using Word. My latest struggle involved using Word 2007 to create a document containing math/logic symbols then having to save the document as Word 2003 to submit to a journal. This resulted in Word taking a picture of the equations, which pixellated them. I had to redo the equations in Word 2003 mode using the Windows Character Map to plug-in the logical symbols.

Enter: LaTeX. A solution, yes. Something that takes a while to figure out, yes. But, now, a user’s guide for philosophers to help us navigate the waters of LaTeX. Thanks to Charlie Tanksley for creating an intro to LaTeX for philosophers. I hope to read the guide and discover a solution to my Word-woes. Below are links to his guide.

On Charlie’s Website: Click here. 
In PDF Format: Click here.

In an age when armchair practices have taken heat from experimental philosophy I have opted to take the armchair to the extreme!

I couldn’t resist posting a picture of my new armchair. It’s a dream come true for a guy like me who deals with back problems. I think full-tilt mode = fall asleep.

In addition to the great phil papers aggregator of all-things-philosophy there is a lesser-known philosophy aggregator at alltop.com. The aggregator can be found here. It tracks several important philosophy websites, journals and blogs. You can even submit your own philosophy site, or another site, for alltop to track.

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