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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…

  • 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…

  • Heap of Links

    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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Schliesser on Unger

    Unger declares not once, but twice during the interview that he “knew, but didn’t want to know” that Wittgenstein was right about philosophy. Yet,…

  • Nearby Possible “Empty Ideas”

    Peter Unger’s new book and recent interview have been in the philosonews a lot lately. Meanwhile, in a nearby possible world… To start things…

  • The Hunt for Hume’s Wine Cellar

    An office block from the 1950s built atop David Hume’s house is being demolished, and historians are hoping to find Hume’s wine cellar underneath.…

  • Heap of Links

    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,…

  • Putnam on Quine

    Reading Quine’s “Two Dogmas”? You’re doing it all wrong, says Hilary Putnam.

  • Unger Interviewed about Analytic Philosophy’s Empty Ideas

    Philosophers easily get the idea that somehow or other, just by considering things about the world that they already know, they can write up…

  • Fight Rebecca Kukla

    Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown) is looking for a fight. Are you old enough, small enough, and, most importantly, tough enough?

  • Rail Strikes, Cheat Tweets, and the Philosophy BAC

    The railway strike in France has entered its sixth day, risking making students late for the philosophy portion of the baccalauréat exam. the timing…

  • Cognitive Enhancement: the New Normal?

    The sixth and final installment of The Conversation‘s “Biology and Blame” series is up, and it is on cognitive enhancement. Nicole Vincent (Georgia State)…

  • The Pedagogy of Thought Experiments

    Philosophy professor Sharon Kaye (John Carroll University) is featured in this Inside Higher Ed article on using thought experiments in the classroom.

  • Maudlin Interviewed on Fine-Tuning and Other Issues in Cosmology and Religion

    Gary Gutting.: You obviously don’t see scientific cosmology as supporting any case for theism. You also think that it refutes theistic religions’ claiming that…

  • New Philosopher Databases

    Modeled on the well-populated site, Women of Philosophy, a group of philosophers are creating a number of other databases, starting with one for Latina/Latino…

  • The Quest for the Last Glass Philosopher

    It was (perhaps) a dark and stormy night, back in the 1950s, when the multi-colored glass panels depicting 24 philosophers were removed from the…

  • Sorabji to be Knighted

    Richard Sorabji, emeritus professor of philosophy at King’s College London and Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (and who has held positions at Cornell,…

  • Heap of Links

    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…