Archive: 'News'

New .info domain

08Jan09

On Monday, we acquired phylo.info and moved the site over to our new domain. We still own phylosophy.net and all requests to our old domain will be redirected to our new one (seamlessly, as far as I can tell).
.info is one of the more popular generic top-level domains released in 2000. It is intended for “informative [...]

“Naturalized Metaphilosophy”

30Nov08

David and I received word earlier this month that our article on “Naturalized Metaphilosophy” has been accepted for accepted for a special issue of Synthèse on Representing Philosophy. (Thom Brooks’ blog has the last copy of the CFP that is easily accessible.)
ABSTRACT.  Traditional representations of philosophy have tended to prize the role of reason in the [...]

Beta site launch

05Oct08

We’ve just opened access to a test drive of the site at www.phylosophy.net. At present, you can search for individuals and institutions within the database, and explore connections between them using links. The most recent degrees and appointments from our core set of schools are included, as well as advisors. For a good, complete sample, [...]

Project poster

05Dec07

We have a (hopefully) permanent and updatable project poster up at The New Media Lab website that includes RSS feed from this blog and hopefully, in time, recent topics from the forum. Visit http://www.newmedialab.cuny.edu/phylo/.
As usual, we’ll continue to post regular updates on the project to this blog.

NA-CAP 2007

28Jul07

We presented Phylo at 2007 North American Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP) Conference (http://na-cap.osi.luc.edu/) earlier today. Our talk was focused on Phylo as a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to update information a fast, distributed way—much unlike several existing research tools that require centralized updates from a handful of administrators.
To set the stage, we talked [...]

Scholarly productivity at CUNY

13Jul07

There was a report published in the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this year that’s worth mentioning here. Academic Analytics constructed the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index based on book and article publications and scholarly citations.
The CUNY PhD Program in Philosophy ranked second among philosophy graduate programs nationally and first among aggregated philosophy and religion doctoral [...]

Welcome to Phylo Blog

01Jul07

We’ve created this blog as a space to discuss The Phylosophy Project, a free, online research tool we’re creating at the CUNY Graduate Center. In the next few days, we’ll post a document that explains what Phylo is and why we need it to improve our research. After that, a short history of the project. [...]