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Artisanal ethics — the customer is not always right—especially when it comes to coffee, says Matt Strohl (University of Montana, Missoula)
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Is there academic tenure in the UK? — answers from Michael Otsuka (LSE)
Brainjacking, personality changes, and other risks of deep brain stimulation — Jonathan Pugh (Oxford) discusses a range of ethical issues raised by the increasingly used technology
Aesthetic tribalism: "It’s bad for us aesthetically. It’s bad for us generally. And we can do something about it." — commentary from Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC)
"In philosophy we tend to theorise too soon, about things that we don’t yet understand well enough because we haven’t looked at them hard enough before we rush into theory." — Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University) on what it has been like for her to be a trans woman, and what can be learned from her experiences
Political Science deploys devastating new weapon in best-disciplinary-conference wars — I think this is one of those situations in which no one will object to someone starting a petition
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Ned Block (NYU) talks consciousness — on The Partially Examined Life podcast
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Different theories in the philosophy of mind as illustrations — by Jasper van den Herik (EUR), with other suggestions in the replies
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"There is no established orthodoxy about gender in academic philosophy" — a statement from 33 philosophers
The top ten places for an undergraduate degree in philosophy in the UK, according to The Telegraph — more noteworthy for the publicity it brings to philosophy than its content
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There's no such thing as the direction of time — Matt Farr (Cambridge) lays out the C-Theory of time, which “goes a significant step further even than the B-theory”
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In defense of the marriage-free state — Clare Chambers (Cambridge) on the problems with government being involved in marriage
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Carelessness, dogmatism, gullibility, wishful thinking, and other epistemic vices — Quassim Cassam (Cambridge) talks with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) about his new book
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"They thought that my rather different approach… was not only wrong, but it was stupid, and it was undermining philosophy." — a brief interview with Patricia Churchland (UCSD)
"Conscience is not an isolated space, cut off from the rest of the world. It is what reminds us of our own fallibility, and what makes us accountable to others." — author Eula Biss and philosopher Mavis Biss (Loyola Maryland) on conscientious objection, particularly in the context of vaccination
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