Category: OLD Heap of Links

1. Jason Stanley (Yale) brings political philosophy to bear on Detroit and the idea of “emergency managers” in The New York Times. Detroit’s Metro Times …

1. Advocates of the “open carry” of firearms sometimes enter stores, restaurants, and other establishments, proudly and openly carrying their guns. What is the…

1. “The fact you are unwilling to examine the philosophical foundations of what you do does not mean those foundations are not there; it…

1. There is a “profound disconnect between Heidegger’s anti-Semitic prejudice and his philosophy,” argues Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gastiez). But even…

1. You have just 10 minutes until your next meeting? Write. 15 minutes between classes? Write. 8 minutes before that advisee comes knocking? Write,…

1. The Good Society jounal is providing open access to its new special issue, “Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration,” with articles by Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), Christopher Bennett…

1. Dave Chalmers on explaining consciousness: the TED talk version. 2. Traveling abroad to avoid long wait lists for a treatment, or to find less…

1. “Discrimination Is Un-Christian, too” — philosophy graduate student Kathryn Pogin (Notre Dame, Northwestern) on the Hobby Lobby decision, in the NYT. 2. The…

1. Is Žižek a plagiarist? Update: Newsweek gets on the story. Update 2: Žižek’s response. 2. “Philosophers ought to do their best to find a female…

1. Vivian Feldblyum may have earlier wooed you with “The Deductive Logic Love Song” but now she is singing the epistemology break-up song, “Do I…

1. NPR’s Tamara Keith, a philosophy major, tells her “it doesn’t hurt to ask” story. 2. Someone who sounds a bit like Carly Rae…

1. Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins makes some personal resolutions about how to treat other philosophers. 2. Students prefer administering painful electric shocks to themselves rather…

1. Tonight, some PBS television stations will be airing a documentary on Grace Lee Boggs, a 98-year-old social activist who holds a PhD in philosophy from Bryn…

1. Charts and graphs may have their place in philosophy, but this is taking things too far. 2. An angel comes to the APA…

1. Heather Douglas (Waterloo) and others on how to fix Canadian science policy (audio here). 2. “Good luck idiots. I hope you enjoy your new…

1. Is it exploitative or otherwise wrong to travel to Brazil to see the World Cup? Daniel Campos asks what an ethical fan should do. 2. For…

1. View many of Routledge’s philosophy books for free, through the end of June. 2. Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) on Tom Burke (South Carolina) on untangling…

1. Don’t call your college students “kids,” says Sean A. Valles (Michigan State). 2. Jakob Hohwy (Monash), who works in philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology,…

1. Was Nietzsche a transhumanist? 2. Help get Bar Philosophi, “a mixology/craft cocktail bar with drinks inspired by conversation-inducing writers and philosophers” off the…

1. Matthew Burstein has a blog, thought.o.matt, on “academia, media, philosophy, social institutions, teaching, and technology.” Included among the posts are his annotated syllabi…