1. Churchland vs. McGinn in the New Your Review of Books.
2. The philosophy of mind of the Robocop remake? I’d buy that for a dollar.
3. The ethics of whistleblowing and state secrecy — a review essay by political theoriest William Scheuerman.
4. How do you know you’re not a zombie yourself?
5. “The emotional component of our moral judgment is not strictly based on a harmful act’s outcome” a recent finding from the Brown University Moral Psychology Research Lab.
6. Meanwhile, a team of philosophers at Case Western using fMRI claim to have “found that the human brain has an analytic network and an empathetic network that tend to suppress one another.”
7. Argentina has a National Thinking Office, and its strategic coordinator is a philosopher. Apparently both the appointment and the office are controversial.
8. Using teamwork to get ahead in academia.