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“Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza for Tenor and Piano” by British composer Michael Zev Gordon has been shortlisted for an Ivors award -- you can listen to the 21-minute song cycle sets of texts from Spinoza’s Ethics at the link
“That various things are simultaneously imaginable and unimaginable is essential to love, our sense of self, and our sense of what is real” -- Oded Na’aman (Stanford) on evils, attachment, ambivalence, and the problems with Stoicism
“Human beings are ‘general-purpose culture machines’ capable of creating cultural and moral innovations that permit them to live better and more harmoniously together” -- Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on existentialism for individuals and historicism for human nature
“Stock is quick to point out that she does not believe all trans women are bad” yet “at nearly every instance in the book when trans women are mentioned as agents… they are deceivers, rapists, and violent offenders” -- Adam Briggle (North Texas) agrees with Kathleen Stock on "many of her conceptual points," but, he says, its her "foreboding mood" that drives her arguments
“Like everyone else, Benatar finds his views disturbing” -- a profile of David Benatar by Joshua Rothman in The New Yorker
“Every time I sit down to write an article or do some other research-related task… I have to ask myself: should I be doing this or should I be spending the time with my children?” -- John Danaher (NUI) on the "academic parent's dilemma"
“Philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one’s own in one’s ideas and thought” -- Richard Marshall interviews G.W.F. Hegel at 3:16AM
“We need the burgeoning philosophical field of space ethics to help us tackle the thorny moral questions and complicated debates that growing interest in space exploration raises” -- so argues Chelsea Haramia (Spring Hill) at Noema (via Nathan Nobis)
“If the analysis that I have provided is correct, then Americans cannot solve the race problem. The most that they can do is choose which race problem they are willing to live with” -- Joseph Heath (Toronto) on how, when it comes to race in the U.S., "different parties define both the problem itself and its solution differently"
“When everything that can be explained has been explained, when we know the truths of physics and brains and psychology and social interactions and so on and so forth, will there still be anything worth wondering about?” -- Charlie Huenemann (Utah State) on "the biggest question"
“It would have been easy to demand freedom and protection for both Stock and for the trans and non-binary students or allies, since both sides claim to be being intimidated and silenced by the other. But the letter did not do this” -- a nonbinary philosopher on "how I experienced the unfolding of events leading up to and around the recent UK philosophers’ open letter regarding Kathleen Stock"
“An insider’s take on three different directions it seems to me the left wing of the applied turn is taking in philosophy” -- Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) offers three "ideal types"
A philosophy professor’s account of the “perilous” and “unrelenting” trajectory of his university -- David Benatar's new book is "The Fall of the University of Cape Town"
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason -- condensed into 100 tweets, by Helen de Cruz (SLU)
“I conjecture that, in retrospect, historians will come to view Anglophone philosophy from the 1960s to 1990s one of the great golden ages” -- why Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) thinks "Back in the 1990s, when I was a graduate student, giants strode the Earth! Now, Earth is rather more populated with human-sized people."
“There’s definitely been a shift from more traditional abstract philosophical work earlier in my career, to more feminist and political work more recently… Honestly a lot of it was just a matter of paying more attention” -- Jonathan Ichikawa (UBC) is interviewed about his life and work
“Terrorism involves the intentional harming of non-combatants…, is committed for ideological reasons and/or political ends,” and often includes “the intrusion of fear into everyday life” -- "the US drone campaign meets these criteria, argues Jessica Wolfendale (Marquette)
“What are the most important questions mainstream philosophy ignores or has forgotten about today?” -- 10 philosophers give their answers
“I never saw autism as something that applied to me—that is, until I started reading first-person descriptions by autistics, in particular, autistic women, of their own experiences as autistics in a neurotypical world” -- Amandine Catala (UQAM) interviewed about her research and her life as a late-diagnosed autistic woman in philosophy
“The past can be a source of information on moves that are missed in present professional discussions” -- and so "historians of philosophy are a collective good to the profession that it pays to have a large enough pool to have around," writes Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)
“Philosophy, the survey seems to imply, consists of a set of clear questions whose answers can usually be bundled into two or three options” -- but "a lot of the philosophical work that I find most meaningful doesn’t take this form. Instead, it challenges the questions themselves," says David Egan (Outer Coast)
Next time someone asks why we should bother studying the history of philosophy -- direct them to this thread
“Pupils should be encouraged to contribute more than ‘yes, Socrates; certainly, Socrates’ most of the time” -- a gov't report on The Academy, from a collection of "polite emails to the ancients" from "a very firmly 2021 standpoint"
A philosopher’s statement of synthesis -- the tracks on a new album of instrumental music from Dale Dorsey (Kansas) unfold in developing patterns that make the perfect soundtrack for your night drive on the electronic highway from here to 1980 (title track is esp. good)
“Every female PhD student is sleeping with her supervisor, don’t be naive, it is well known. They all do.” -- being told this during a job interview was just one of many incidents of sexism philosopher Juliette Ferry-Danini has faced (from 2020 / via Andrew Mills)
“The cleverest people are not those speaking loudest or trying to impress. They are generous instead.” -- Stephen Mumford (Durham) on good philosophical discussion
The University of Austin is premised on misrepresentations about what happens in college classrooms and the state of higher education in the U.S. -- commentary from Aaron Hanlon (Colby College)
Analytic philosophy generator -- by Andrew M. Bailey (Yale-NUS) (via the Australasian Association of Philosophy)
A closer look at Kathleen Stock’s departure from Sussex
and Peter Boghossian’s from Portland State -- at Liberal Currents

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