New links…
- “The methods still employed by many philosophers who address metaphysical questions about the mind and its contents… are bankrupt” — Peter Carruthers discusses his new book, “Explaining Our Actions,” in a series of posts at the Brains Blog
- “The enthusiasm of that country’s intellectual and political leaders for the study of Europe’s ancient world seems to grow by the month” — on the increased interest in ancient Greek philosophy in China
- “We can sense that this student ‘didn’t do the reading’, but we let them get away with it – just this once – because it’s the discussion we care about most for the moment” — Martin Lenz begins a series of posts on different kinds of readers of philosophy and what can be learned from them
- “We study fascism, and we’re leaving the US” — a NYT video feature on Jason Stanley, Marci Shore, and Timothy Snyder, who are leaving Yale for Toronto
- “There is space between the position that ‘we can’t make sense of what it means for something to be absolute’ and the statement that ‘all positions are equally valid’” — Martin Kusch is profiled by Lynn Chiu as he visits personally significant spots around Vienna on the eve of his retirement lecture
- What if procreative choices are a fixed point on which other moral reasons revolve, but are not themselves moral choices?” — Barry Lam defends the “normie” view about procreation: generally, whatever you decide is ok
- “Working as an American philosopher has turned out to be much more of an adventure than I ever could have anticipated” — Alison Jaggar’s 2019 Dewey Lecture
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