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    1. Churchland vs. McGinn in the New Your Review of Books. 2. The philosophy of mind of the Robocop remake? I’d buy that for…

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    1. A defense of the lecture. 2. Harvard’s internal report on the scientific misconduct case of Marc Hauser. 3. “Socrates and the Crisis of…

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    1. Does the formal modeling of game theory teach us anything new? Here is a list of some counterintuitive findings, suggesting that the answer is…

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    1. “No one goes into the humanities for reasons political, professional, or merely personal. We do so because devoting ourselves to some particular field…

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    1. Jeff Sebo talks about moral status while drawing very fast. And well. Hmmm, maybe he isn’t the one drawing. 2. If privacy is…

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    1. A Henry David Thoreau tumblr. 2. “Jean-Paul Sartre was literally obsessed with crabs. Also, mescaline.” That and other weird facts about some famous existentialists.…

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    1. Elizabeth Anderson discusses the history and varieties of egalitarianism at libertarianism.org. 2. “On Being Annoyed” by Tom Roberts (Exeter). A friend asks: the next…

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    1. Want to annoy a metaphysician? Send him or her a link to this video, which purports to answer the question, “How Many Things Are There?” 2.…

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    1. Wittgenstein and cricket. 2. The ethics of fashion. 3. A book of 33 interviews on the relation between science and religion 4. The…

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    1. The science of looking smarter. 2. Professors, you’ve been rated by your students, but have you been drawn? 3. Article on author Lucy…

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    1. A philosophy undergrad reflects on anxiety and racial stereotypes in philosophy teaching (via Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, who shares her thoughts on the post here.)…