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February 5, 2015 17 12

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Sara on Gifts You Would Want: A Crowd-Sourced Gift Guide with a Prize (3 Updates)

A 6-film ticket package for the 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival. (Current early bird pricing is $70), located here: https://www.goelevent.com/MilwaukeeFilm/Package/Sale/MFF2024-6Pack I realize this is a somewhat unconventional, […]

Tim Oseckas on A Neglected Philosophical Pessimist -- For Our Times?

I have recently received confirmation that finally an English translation of Zapffe’s Om Det Tragiske has been completed by American philosopher Ryan L Showler and

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This new(ish) board game that is absolutely delightful and has been on my list now for a while: Ark Nova by Capstone games. Capstone Games:

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A commissioned drawing of W.D. Ross by John Holbo (he's already done a bunch of others but I want a Holbo Ross on my laptop

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I would like a glass cloud. You can get one from this pair of artists in Australia (takes a couple of weeks to arrive.) It's […]

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How strange. Hopefully this link will work.

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I'm not getting a link to the print Mehrzad, just to an empty cart.

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Philosophy gift guides by area of specialization -- from the University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy
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Duck-bunny salt shakers
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“Bruce Le Catt” was really David Lewis, “Zhang LoShan” was really Amelie O. Rorty, and “Zera Yacob” may have been a Catholic monk -- in philosophy, when and how does fake authorship matter? Jonathan Egid (King's College) takes up the question
Did you know that Pascal basically invented the first modern form of urban public transportation? -- "carrosses à cinq sols" was a precursor to city bus systems (via MR)
“Some reasons in support of self-imposed suffering” and “some ways we might deceive ourselves about self-imposed suffering” -- Luke Hunt (Alabama) on doing hard things
“That person I am is itself a collective or corporate entity. It is composed of a number of different selves” at different times -- what does this picture of personal identity over time imply for how to think about, respect, and care for those with dementia? Reflections from Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)
The humanities face battles for survival, “which, like all political battles, require their participants to pretend to know things that they do not actually know” -- "We should be alert to the danger of becoming accustomed to putting our worst foot forward," warns Agnes Callard (Chicago) in the NYT
Books from Kant’s personal library are among those being digitized as part of a cultural preservation project in Kaliningrad -- "the project coincides with the upcoming 300th anniversary of Kant’s birth and is part of a series of citywide celebrations"
“If Hamas was hiding a control base under an Israeli hospital and it was Israeli civilians at risk, would Israel think that attacking the hospital would be justified? If the answer is ‘no,’ then the attack against Shifa hospital is also not justified” -- Jessica Wolfendale (Case Western) on proportionality and civilian equality
“The Chimp-pig hypothesis is that humans might be hybrids of a pig and some chimps” -- It's also a thought experiment to make you feel like you're "having a deeply-held belief challenged," the discomfort of which may be beneficial in a few ways (via the Browser)
The wisdom and limits of conservatism -- Brad Skow (MIT) is in search of a "rapprochement between Burke and Mill"
Videos on neuroscience and philosophy -- a collection of series of videos by various researchers, from the Brains Blog and Neural Mechanisms Online
“A ‘theory of everything’ that weaves an idea of justice where climate and colonialism come together” -- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) is profiled at Vox
“A philosopher extolling the merits of philosophy should be treated as suspiciously as a butcher waxing lyrical about meat or a beautician praising the wonder of botox” -- is the author this piece sufficiently self-suspicious?
A new paper on peer disagreement argues that the debate is misframed because it neglects disagreement in “collaborative contexts” -- fittingly, the paper got its start with a disagreement that started a friendship, as Berislav Marušić (Edinburgh) explains about this work co-authored with the late Stephen J. White
“Have you really not figured out yet that metaphysics is no different from table manners, in that there are all sorts of ways to set the table, all of which will look ‘wrong’ from the outside, but all of which work just as well as any other for those who adopt them?” -- Also, which mid-20th C. analytic philosophers wrote about their experiences on psychedelics? Justin Smith-Ruiu wants to know.
“What are philosophical texts about? Contrary to a widespread assumption, the answer to that question is normally not given in the text itself” -- Martin Lenz (Groningen) on the influence of "prior interpretations" of a text and how to thoughtfully navigate them
The importance of the skirt -- courage, contingency, and the course of philosophy
“The way in which these ideas are not really defended should not be confused with their being undermined or subject to hostile attack” -- Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) on how the humanities, and philosophy in particular, inculcate liberal values by presupposing them
“Philosophical, practical, and strategic reflections on veganism as an ethical practice” -- "Vegan Practically" is a new blog from Tracy Isaacs (Western)
“In the ancient land of Philosophia there is a ruling council of five philosophers, linearly ranked by power and prestige, with various accompanying benefits accruing in the order of this rank… It is time to pick a new council”” -- so begins a puzzle from Joel David Hamkins (Notre Dame)
The LA Review of Books is publishing a six-essay series on philosophy’s importance in trying times -- series editor George Yancy (Emory) introduces it
Trans philosophy and how it’s discussed in the profession and in classrooms -- Talia Mae Bettcher (CSU Los Angeles) is the guest on a recent episode of the Hotel Bar Sessions podcast
You have 300° vision, all your nutrition comes from flowers, you can see ultraviolet light, you have the ability to sense magnetic waves and electric fields, and you can fly -- "Given all this, what’s in your mind?," asks Lars Chittka (Queen Mary U.)
We have made “the end goal of mourning the psychological well-being of the bereaved,” but have overlooked how this may come at the expense of preserving our valuable relations with the deceased -- Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode (Warsaw) on the meaning of mourning

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