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A Brief Look Back at 2017

What did philosophers talk about in 2017?
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Louis F. Cooper on Obstacles To Curiosity

As an approach to history and the historically-oriented "sciences" (e.g., historically-oriented sociology or historically-oriented social science in general), and also political philosophy, just to […]

Narasimhan on Dutilh Novaes Wins Lakatos Award

Thanks for the announcement and the information. Congratulations , Madam for a fine achievement. May many more achievements and awards follow this , Lakatos is

david on €1.5 Million Grant for Work on Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts

Mazel Tov!

David Wallace on Obstacles To Curiosity

But that assumes reliable, stable consensus amongst educators as to which beliefs are true. That’s fair for ridiculous extremes like flat-earth, and also for long-established […]

Samuel Schubert on Obstacles To Curiosity

I am not so sure about 'viewpoint diversity' as an ideal. All sciences, including philosophical science, should aim to discover objective truth - that is […]

Heidi Savage on Philosophy Departments Under Threat: Information, Pro-Active Strategies, Defense

IOW, a complete trojan horse strategy. For more deets, reach out.

Kerry on University of Roehampton Possibly "Closing" Philosophy

Middlesex moved to either Sussex or Kent, not roehampton although possibly some staff ended up at Roehampton.

Matt L on Ásta from San Francisco State to Duke

That's a great hire for Duke. On this: Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir, who publishes under the name Ásta ...it's worth noting that this […]

Mich Ciurria on Philosophy & Activism (guest post)

If philosophers don't participate in activism, then academia will continue to slide into corporate autocracy. Universities are increasingly run by corporate managers and billionaire donors, […]

Preston Stovall on Dutilh Novaes Wins Lakatos Award

Hi Alex -- I don't think I'd like to try to summarize it, but CUP has a short paragraph on the information page of the […]

Alex Bellamy on Dutilh Novaes Wins Lakatos Award

Would it be possible to state its thesis in a sentence, or at most a short paragraph? E,g. What is meant by ‘deduction’ ?

Justin Kalef on Obstacles To Curiosity

Hello, Nate. I've heard this sort of response before, but I don't see how the response is meant to work. If a recipe for a cake […]

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“If spectacular forms of white supremacy were to end tomorrow, whiteness as a structure of privilege, power and hegemony would continue” -- George Yancy (Emory) on how "white-perpetrated, anti-Black murder is all too acceptable, consistent and inoffensive to the very fabric of this nation"
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“I contrast the essential-bum-origin view with a phenomenological view, and I argue in favour of the latter” -- Bill Capra on the metaphysics of farts
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