1. What are “fact/opinion dichotomy mongers” trying to achieve with this distinction? And do they achieve it? — Is it just a “a grab for status crudely disguised by a toy philosophical distinction”? Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) gives us his, er, opinion

2. Sometimes acting rightly incurs a cost that makes the cost especially undeserved — David Benatar (Cape Town) on the paradox of desert

3. “Edited collections are acts of resistance” — the “different game” of edited collections, and a request for people to for people to name edited volumes which they particularly appreciated

4. “If you added it all up, we are educating more students in philosophy than the entire U.S. ivy league combined” — a look at philosophy enrollment at the University of Toronto

5. Does Taylor Swift deserve her billion dollar fortune? — two philosophers, Jessica Flanigan (Richmond) & Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht) take place in a Taylorcentric discussion of distributive justice

6. “Even without scientific accuracy, we can still ask for logical consistency. Alas, that is also pretty thin on the ground” — theoretical physicist Sean Carroll and science writer Jennifer Ouellette rate time-travel movies

7. “Because we don’t have a proper subject matter we’re forced to intrude on other people’s turf, which is fun” — Nicholas Delon (Charleston) is the latest philosopher to answer the eponymous question at Why Philosophy?

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