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More Philosophicalish Quips
If you can only be good at one thing, be good at lying. … Because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything.…
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Would You Do It Over Again?
Philosophy professors and graduate students: think back to when you decided to study philosophy seriously, or to try to make a career out of being…
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One of These Is Actually Happening
– Not happening. Yet. Transcendence is the recently released sci-fi movie the plot of which involves uploading the mind of a scientist (played by Johnny…
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Graduate Student Essay Contest with $20,000 Prize
Elie Maynard Adams was a Professor at UNC Chapel Hill from 1948 until 1990. While there, he helped to found the university’s Program in the…
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Ruse wins Russell Society Award
Michael Ruse (Florida State) has won the 2014 Bertrand Russell Society Award for exemplifying “the kind of dedication to science and reason that was…
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Would We Be Better Off Without Blame?
The reality is that we are all at best compromised agents, whether by biology, social circumstance, or brute luck. The differences among us are…
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A True Lover of Philosophy
I love philosophy, but I wonder if I love it as much as Stephen West. Here is a little bit of his story: My parents…
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Socratic Circles with Backchannel
The students come to class having read a passage from a text and having prepared some questions or points for discussion about it. The teacher…
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“That Can Really Mess You Up”
That’s Neil deGrasse Tyson on majoring in philosophy. Chris Hardwick, over at Nerdist, interviews the famed astrophysicist and host of Cosmos, and one of the topics is…
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Is Your School Facing Federal Investigation?
The U.S. Department of Education released the names of colleges and universities “under investigation for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual…
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Blog for Philosophy Journal Editors
Jonathan Jacobs (Saint Louis University), editor of Res Philosophica, has created a blog, Letters from the Editors: Philosophy Journal Editors’ Perspectives on Academic Publishing. He…
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Women in Philosophy: Undergraduate Edition
Undergraduates at SUNY Buffalo State have formed a Women in Philosophy organization that is credited with increasing women philosophy majors at the school. You can…
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Philosopher Meets Philanthropist
William MacAskill, Oxford philosophy graduate student and soon-to-be fellow at Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, sits down with Peter Buffett (son of Warren Buffett) to…
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Nietzsche and the Suburbs
The suburbs. How deeply we are lost! So deep that we do not know we are lost. How derelict we are! So great that…
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Department of Defense Gives Philosopher $7.5m
Steve Awodey, a professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense to “reshape the…
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Kenny Easwaran (University of Southern California) to Texas A&M
Kenny Easwaran, currently at the University of Southern California, has accepted an offer as associate professor with tenure at Texas A&M, starting Fall 2014.…
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The Metaphysics of Love
One of the principal ways analytic philosophers can contribute to intellectual progress on topics of public interest is by drawing attention to, and rigorously…
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More on Teaching Philosophy in Prison
The notion of incarceration goes back to the beginning of philosophy, with the imprisonment and execution of Socrates—and the idea, expressed by his student…
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Millikan’s Dewey Lecture
Marcus Arvan over at Philosopher’s Cocoon draws attention to the 2012 Dewey Lecture by Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut), to some of the details…
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Philosophy, Privilege, and Prestige
Traditionally, the liberal arts have been the privilege of an upper class. There are three big reasons for this. First, it befits the leisure…