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Varieties of Understanding – Grant Winners
“Varieties of Understanding: Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology” is a project funded with $4.2 million from the Templeton Foundation, and which is lead by…
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Science News of Interest
1. Cosmological study concludes that there should be nothing, rather than something. 2. Those with episodic amnesia are not “stuck in time“, says Carl Craver (Washington…
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New (?) Corollary of Frankfurt’s Conception of Bullshit
“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” (Seen here but apparently owed to Alberto…
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Mentoring Project for Pre-Tenure Women
Louise Antony (UMass) and Ann Cudd (Kansas) are co-directing the 3rd Biennial Workshop for “The Mentoring Project for Pre-trenure Women Faculty in Philosophy”, to…
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Best Philosophy Book Covers
I saw this very clever cover for a book on set theory and it got me wondering about good book design in philosophy. Let’s take…
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Robert Parris Moses Interview (Famous Philosophy Majors)
Robert Parris Moses “became one of the most influential leaders of the black civil rights movement in the 1960s and afterwards. Martin Luther King called…
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Philosophers Outside Academia
Helen De Cruz has begun a series of posts at NewAPPS collating responses to her interviews of several philosophers who left the academy to…
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A Physicist on Physicists’ Criticisms of Philosophy
“Philosophers care too much about deep-sounding meta-questions, instead of sticking to what can be observed and calculated.” Finally, the deeply depressing critique. Here we…
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Why Philosophy is Worthwhile / Rule-Following
“On occasion, someone will ask you why you’re a philosopher and not a scientist or some other, more obviously respectable, intellectual.” I don’t know…
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Ludlow’s Future at Rutgers
Peter Ludlow, who is currently engaged in legal disputes with Northwestern University and its officials regarding alleged sexual misconduct, had been offered a position at…
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John Searle Assesses and Advises
Tim Crane interviewed John Searle, and all he got was a lousy t-shirt another dimissal of the state of contemporary philosophy: “It’s in terrible shape!”…
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Inclusiveness in Philosophy
At present, the small gestures made toward greater inclusiveness can in fact lead only to somewhat more robust representation of people who are all…
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Pittsburgh Makes Offers to Malink and Whiting – Update
Update (6/20/14): Both Whiting and Malink have deferred deciding on their offers until Spring 2015. Meanwhile, Whiting will be a Visiting Professor at Pitt…
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Arvan and Others on Unger
The primary value of Unger’s critique of philosophy may be that it generates good and thoughtful responses. There was Schliesser’s the other day, and also the post…
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From Advertising to Philosophy to…?
Meanwhile, elsewhere* in The Weekly Standard, Abigail Lavin, an advertising and marketing professional who recently obtained her master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia, reviews…
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Yale Sexual Misconduct In The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard has an article about the sexual misconduct allegations against a well-known professor of moral and political philosophy at Yale (previously). No…
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Ludlow Sues Northwestern
Peter Ludlow, who had been accused of sexual misconduct with an undergraduate at Northwestern University (previously) is suing the university and some of its…
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Pigliucci on Unger (maybe)
Massimo Pigliucci doesn’t frame this recent post at his blog as a response to Unger, but… Now, why on earth did we engage in…
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The End of Lying
With the advance of certain technologies, we will soon be living in an era in which it will be very difficult, if not impossible,…
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The Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement
Prisoners who are subjected to solitary confinement show symptoms and describe a phenomenology that is not equivalent to either autism or induced autism, but…