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- Is this going to be David Hume’s pop culture moment? — Hume scholars, get ready for the next installment of The Hunger Games series, which author Susanne Collins is based on the philosopher’s idea of “implicit submission”
- The path a scientific example took from obscurity to world fame runs through two philosophers and a science fiction author — a cultural history of Schrödinger’s Cat
- Three fake philosophy journals made it into Elsevier’s widely used Scopus database — philosophers Tomasz Żuradzki & Leszek Wroński (Jagiellonian University) made the discovery
- “An agent’s assumptions about their situation… are not above question” — Richard Yetter Chappell (Miami) on the risks of applying judgments about thought experiments to real-world cases (responding to Setiya in #5, below)
- “What gets lost in the memes is why the trolley problem matters” — Kieran Setiya (MIT) on the famous example, why Thomson changed her mind about it, and its application to recent events
- “She’s one of those philosophers, like Simone Weil or Alasdair MacIntyre, whose name calls to mind a unique and immediately recognizable way of thinking. Or at least, Rose’s name would do that, if she were better known” — Maya Krishnan (Oxford/Chicago) on the philosophy of Gillian Rose, who wrote six books prior to her death in 1995 at age 48
- “The principle of institutional neutrality lends itself to being used in a merely cynical way” — Anton Ford (Chicago) on Israel, Hamas, and the institutional neutrality of universities
Hugh Warwick’s book *Cull of the Wild* reviewed in the New Yorker. “Should We Kill Some Wild Creatures to Protect Others?” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/cull-of-the-wild-hugh-warwick-book-review-hedgehogs-killing-and-kindness-laura-mclauchlan
Gillian Rose’s Hegel Contra Sociology is a must-read.