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Not from The Onion: Professor who sexually harassed a student will teach course on how "boundaries… limit the possibility of experience" — Avital Ronell (NYU) will be back in the classroom this Fall
"I'm lucky to have gotten a tenure-track job, but… I'm still not sure it was worth it, all things considered" — thoughts on what it takes to finally “succeed” in the philosophy job market, from Marcus Arvan (Tampa)
The Feminist Philosophers blog is closing down — “Many of us, myself included, have become increasingly pessimistic about the potential for internet-based discussions of difficult issues to help us make philosophical and real-world progress,” writes Jenny Saul
Skill, thought, and a self-taught record-breaking runner — Josh Habgood Coote (Bristol) on the role of thinking in practical skills
Beauty vs. Physics — physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on how “relying on beauty as a guide to new laws of nature is not working”
Ethical loneliness, the moral psychology of human attitudes to animals, and the point of knowledge — recent subjects discussed in interviews at New Books in Philosophy
Nietzsche was "someone who was really key to artistic discourses around 1900… [with] a huge impact on the arts, and not just visual artists" — and now there’s an art exhibit about him at the National Gallery of Canada
Philosopher charged with attempted arson after being caught with cans of gas and lighters at St. Patrick's in NYC — the Brooklyn College adjunct prof, Marc Lamparello, had booked a one-way ticket to Rome for the next day
A surprising amount of the good things in life depend on obscurity — Evan Selinger (RIT) and Woodrow Hartzog (Northeastern) explain the idea, its value, and how it is threatened. They’re onto something important. (NYT)
Brexit and the problem that "the majoritarian definition of the popular will, uncritically adopted by the Prime Minister and many others, is not generally coherent" — remarks from Christian List (LSE)
"Argument and inquiry are the engines of Tim Blake Nelson’s 'Socrates,'… a play that hums with intelligence" — the New York Times reviews the new off Broadway production
"While we should want students to be free to speak their minds, we also want them to develop the skills necessary to navigate complex and diverse environments" — Jeffrey Sachs (Acadia) on student self-censorship (Washington Post)
Contemplating "the possibility of a future in which human beings really do not need to do anything at all" — Jeff Noonan (Windsor) on being needed
"What could be better than a good old-fashioned philosophy battle?" — Agnes Callard (Chicago) likes a good fight, even (especially?) if she loses
"The process began with Emerson’s words as much as with the bombast of Public Enemy" — sneakers, hip-hop, poverty, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the 80’s
The "Philosophy as a Way of Life" project has a new website — it includes course-building resources, grant opportunities, and a blog
"I’m sure Socrates would have been widely blocked on social media" — Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) is interviewed in the NYT about Socrates, in light of the new play about him
"To write and rewrite with a roving eye on philosophical politics… in such a way that philosophical possibilities are constantly revived and re-opened" — lessons from Eileen O’Neill on how to write the history of philosophy, as interpreted by Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)
"The common claim that the brain is a computer is not, at the moment, a concrete, precise, well-understood scientific hypothesis" — “Still, the claim is almost certainly true,” argues Kevin Lande (Antwerp)
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"Diametrically opposed assessments of the worth of Aristotle and his philosophy tend to derive from same source, namely a failure to read what he actually wrote" — Christopher Shields (Notre Dame) talks about Aristotle in an interview with Richard Marshall at 3:16
Stories that have "the germ of philosophical argument without quite articulating it" — the object of study of Hans Blumenberg
Some people think that to understand consciousness we need a very detailed map of the brain — scientists are now using artificial intelligence to help produce that map
"Unsettling our conceptions of sex and gender… can be part of the solution to gendered… disparities" — Georgia Warnke (UC Riverside) on the definition of “woman”
Roger Scruton remarks on a "Soros Empire", Muslim invasions, and the Chinese — and loses his government position as Chairman of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission
Psychology Today has launched a new blog on science and philosophy — run by Walter Veit (Bristol), it features essays and interviews
Presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks philosophy — in an interview with Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) (via Michael Morrisey)
Certain Doubts, an epistemology-focused blog that has been running for nearly 15 years, is coming to an end — Jon Kvanvig (Washington U. St. Louis) makes some farewell remarks
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