Free Numbers from Philosophical Studies October 27, 2006
Posted by sumesh in Epistemology, Free, Info, Journals, Links, Philosophy.add a comment
The Journal Philosophical Studies is offering some free numbers. A notification from SpringerLink says, “these issues are completely free to download and
print until 31 October“.
You can access them here
Number 1 / July, 2006 This is on Epistemic Virtue and Virtue Epistemology
Number 1 / May, 2006 Contents: Selected Papers from the 2004 Bellingham Conference
Or you may visit the journal site here. Philosophical Studies
Freebies from the net October 20, 2006
Posted by sumesh in Free, Google Stuffs, Info, Internet.add a comment
The cyberia is up for a revolution of sorts; the web is becoming more influential and mobile than anytime in the past, with fantabulous new applications, stupendous new programs and services, and out-and-out innovative start-ups popping up on a day-to-day basis. Proving wrong all the apocalyptic predictions on the burst of dot-com bubble and the Internet, the new ball game is finally conquering the web and the world, and there are many things new under the sun! 
This site -thoughts INFilo- will be featuring some of these new and U-friendly developments once in a month, in every second-Friday blog, if you will.
In the present blog we will take a look at some of the exciting applications Google launched recently.
***** Google Docs and Spreadsheets is a free, on-line, integrated word processing and spreadsheet program that allows you to collaborate your work with other people and make changes together. In this integrated file system Docs has a built-in group editing feature that keeps all the revisions other people have made, and Spreadsheets has a chat feature that facilitates real-time group editing.
Google Dsp is a simple and extremely useful web based application with great collaboration features. Google has launched it last week and since then I have been utilising it even for non-collaboration purposes as I don’t have MS office on my main platform (Writely was the earlier version). It is, one could say, a really smart step for a Web 2.0 platform, one giant leap for netizens.
All that is needed for this app is a Web browser as there’s nothing to download. Files are stored (auto-save) securely on-line (so no power outages and disk space problems) and one can edit it from any comp with a net connection. Also, it has an option that let you save the files to your own comp in different formats. It accepts most popular file formats-DOC, XLS, ODS, RTF, CSV, etc. The on-line feature is that it let other people (multiple people) one choose update files instantly from their computers.
One can utilise this app in a number of creative ways. One can coordinate teaching assignments, business plan and other group activities. (I imagine this feature becoming a common teaching/learning aid in the near future. And computers becoming cheaper as free services like Google DSP, which do not require disk space, are popping up regularly). One can publish the files as web pages, post them to your blog and control who can see them.
You may ask why I gave a five star rating to Google Docs & Spreadsheets,which is in beta version now. The main reason is that it is promising, inspite of its limitations. As you will see, there are many early-stage omissions, but I hope they are just early-stage omissions. It will be integrated in full, with Gmail also, soon. I also guess they have learned lessons from the failure of Google Video, well and were able hit the market of iron where it is red this time.
So whom are you waiting for. Go on and try Google Docs and Spreadsheets
See also the following:
***The Google Literacy Project
***/ Google Reader
***/Gmail GDisk One can use this facility as 2GB disk (on mail platform at present on Windows machines, but search me).
UPDATE!
****Google Co-op (Custom Search Engine) LATEST
Forthcoming: U-friendly browsers & shortcuts
Some Titles from Synthese (free till October 2006) September 15, 2006
Posted by sumesh in Free, Info, Journals, Papers, Philosophy.2 comments
Synthese is offering free access to some of its latest issues. As per one intimation from the publishers, “these issues are completely free to download and
print until 31 October“.
1) Volume 151, Number 3, August 2006
New Perspectives on Reduction and Emergence in Physics,
Biology and Psychology is>here
2)Volume 150, Number 3
The Logic of Time and Modality is <here
3) Volume 149, Number 3
Metaphysics in Science is <here
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#This is for informational(non-commercial) purposes only.
Seminars and Conferences September 8, 2006
Posted by sumesh in Conferences n Workshops, Info, Philosophy, Seminars.add a comment
Given below are some of the new Seminar/Conference/Workshop sites from India on Philosophy, psychology and Cognitive Science.
The International Workshop on Modeling Brain and Mind: Physical, Computational and Psychological Approaches at Saha Institute, I guess will be really great. Look at the Invited Speakers List.
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Interim World Philosophical Congress 2006 is in Delhi. It’s very well-designed site is here.
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The National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), India Conference is at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Bombay (14th – 16th December 2006).
My Old Blog September 1, 2006
Posted by sumesh in Blogs, Info.1 comment so far
Hi everybody, (anybody?)
Finally, I’ve moved to this site. Though I’m very busy these days, I hope to post one blog a week (every Friday?). I will have more time for blogging after December as seminar presentations and other work-related commitments will be less.
My old blog is here. http://www.thoughts-infilo.blogspot.com/
