Category: OLD Heap of Links

1. Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) is interviewed by Russ Roberts at EconTalk. 2. Chris LeBron (Yale) is interviewed at 3am Magazine on philosophy of race and…

1. Simon Blackburn gives us his version of a “kids, these days, let me tell you” cranky rant about selfies, which he saves only by saying…

1. A defense of majoring in philosophy, by Joseph Tinguely (South Dakota). 2. Artist Tino Seghal’s latest installation places philosophers in the Roman agora…

1. “I’m not sure, for example, what the philosophy REF panel would make of Berkeley’s research on tar-water, or even Bentham’s on prisons, for…

1. “Something as ‘mundane’ as coffee tasting generates one of the most challenging philosophical questions…” Anna Marmadoro (Oxford) on Aristotle on perception. 2. The…

1. Greasy spoons and Gricean maxims. (via Gerald Dworkin) 2. The regress problem for consequentialism, robot version. 3. “In a deeper and more troubling…

1. A sculpture of Edgar Allen Poe, crafted by philosopher Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick), will soon be unveiled at the corner of Boylston Street and Charles…

1. Why study paradoxes? Roy Cook (Minnesota) answers. 2. An argument for the following: “The maxim ‘my country must fight a war to end…

1. Coseru on Pigliucci on Priest, i.e., what does Buddhism really have to say about contradictions? 2. A guide to Plato’s early and middle…

1. Human civilization is over, says Noam Chomsky. 2. But in case it’s not: a forum on parenthood and academia, at Times Higher Education. 3. Using…

1. Has a time travel simulation resolved the grandfather paradox? Philosophers of science, let us know (via Ben Stein, Manolo Martinez). 2. A philosopher…

1. “Sometimes a deepening of a view may go so deep as to change its character without actually changing its letter,” says Joseph Raz…

1. Why are they so angry? Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) makes the case for anger, arguing that it can be a huge source of strength and…

1. A symposium at Boston Review called “Against Empathy,” featuring Paul Bloom, Peter Singer, Nomy Arpaly, Barbara Fried, Jesse Prinz, and others. 2. “Imagine…

1. “Scientists that talk philosophy down are simply superficial: they have a philosophy (usually some ill-digested mixture of Popper and Kuhn) and think that…

1. What should we think about the ice bucket challenge? 2. Al Mele (Florida State) and Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State) talk about free will…

1. Do athletes need more philosophy? 2. Bertrand Russell plays himself, being interviewed, as part of a 1967 Bollywood movie. A Buddhist monk explains, and…

1. Nicholas Kristof, writing in The New York Times, defends the value of the humanities by explaining how he has been affected by the…

1. Hindu philosophy of religion. 2. A series of posts on Cusa and Hegel. 3. Artificial wombs are already being tested and developed, and…

1. “By insisting that print [rather than online or ebook-only] is a necessary condition for scholarly quality, deans and scholars make it more difficult…