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Links you may want to check out…

1. “They call it repugnant, this world Z of ours / Where zillions breathe beneath ordinary stars / But let me tell you of a lottery divine / Where existence itself is the prize on the line” — Richard Chappell, in search of philosophically moving music, has cranked the bombast up to 11 (sorry, Richard)
2. “The a priori is not empirical reasoning in that it doesn’t admit evidence from the senses. But beyond that, what is it?” — what makes philosophy… philosophy? Victor Kumar considers some answers
3. You need “friends in the profession who get you – who’ll be grumpy with you, laugh with you, celebrate with you, and let you vent” — Arianna Falbo, first-gen college student and assistant prof. of philosophy, on the “beautiful and fulfilling rollercoaster that is life as an academic philosopher”
4. A plea for natural philosophy — Penelope Maddy’s 2020 Presidential Address at the Pacific APA
5. “What philosophy should look like… Loud and rowdy. Everyone involved. Everyone engaged. A kaleidoscopic assortment of jokes, stories, anecdotes and philosophical insights powerful enough to make anyone forget about the so-called ‘crisis in the humanities’.” — Jay Miller on teaching philosophy in prison
6. How Defense Secretary Hegseth’s “gender ideology is a threat to national security” — Graham Parsons, the philosopher who resigned from West Point earlier this year, explains
7. Philosophers Discussing Art — over 80 episodes of conversations between Brandon Polite and a variety of other philosophers

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