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The Philosophy and Science of Creativity
Scientific American has published an excerpt from the introduction to The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, a new collection edited by Elliot Samuel Paul (Columbia) and Scott…
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Grading Shortcuts
For years I provided very extensive comments on students’ papers. What stopped me was one of them, finally, saying “thank you.” It immediately struck…
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Weinberg Donates $7.7m to Michigan
No, not me. Nor, alas, anyone related to me (as far as I know). But Marshall Weinberg, a University of Michigan alumnus, has donated…
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A Name to Accompany the Accusations
The accusations of sexual misconduct against an as-of-yet-officially unnamed prominent moral and political philosopher (previously here and here) are no longer being made anonymously. They…
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Philosophy How-Tos
After yesterday’s heap of links included an unusual Wikihow article, it was brought to my attention that the Wikihow site is home to a…
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Professors Are Biased, Too
An experiment on unwitting professors shows that racial and gender bias persists, even in disciplines much more diverse than philosophy.
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Non-Philosophers Teaching Philosophy
Several years ago, during an era of relative plenty, I [a history professor] tried to persuade our philosophy department to credit a new history…
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Service to the Planet, Sentence-by-Sentence
John Broome (Oxford) is among the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent “Fifth Assessment Report.” One of his tasks is to help…
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The APA’s Collection of Syllabi
The American Philosophical Association has put together a collection of syllabi for courses that are dedicated in whole or part to underrepresented areas in…
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Wanted: Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
Jeremy Waldron is leaving Oxford to return full-time to New York University (via Leiter), opening up Oxford’s famed Chichele Professorship in Social and Political Theory. Before Waldron, the…
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St. Mary’s University Receives $1.5m For Catholic Philosophy
St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, has received $1.5 million from an anonymous donor to endow a chair in Catholic philosophy. “The donor…
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More on the Recent Anonymous Sexual Harassment and Assault Accusations
In September of 2011, the Yale Daily News published an article that detailed two stories of sexual misconduct at Yale. Now, a woman who…
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Way Too Much Going On Here, Mill Edition
In England, a judge who relied explicity on the writings of John Stuart Mill in his ruling granted an imprisoned mentally ill Jehovah’s Witness…
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Very Bad Wizards
Very Bad Wizards is a series of fun and fascinating podcast conversations on morality and related issues between philosopher Tamler Sommers (Houston) and psychologist David Pizarro…
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Markosian Declines Illinois Offer
Ned Markosian (Western Washington) has declined the offer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Care, People
College graduates had double the odds of being engaged at work and three times the odds of thriving in Gallup’s five elements of well-being…
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Online Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
The 2nd Annual Online Undergraduate Philosophy Conference has begun and will be continuing over the next two weeks, at the rate of one session per…
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Details About An Alleged “Sexual Exploiter”
Last week we discussed whether some anonymous accusations of sexual impropriety against a prominent philosopher were mere gossip or rather were issues for the profession to…
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Louis CK Gets “Philosophical”
“Don’t lie, because lying only fixes everything.” I don’t know how philosophical Louis CK’s really getting, but I’m enough of a fan of his to give the Washington Post‘s…
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Buddhism’s Logic
Buddhist thought, and Asian thought in general, has often been written off by Western philosophers. How can contradictions be true? What’s all this talk of…