New links…
- “Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there? (though do see this and this)
- A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that “the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements”
- “Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall’s 2024 Dewey Lecture
- Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and “it names a burden as much as a distinction”
- “Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
- “Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI’s threat to higher education
- “The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
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