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A team of philosophers, engineers, and scientists at UC Santa Cruz are creating playing cards about ethics and technology -- suggest a question and get a free deck of cards when it's done (via Barry Lam)
Is it bad to be objectified? It may depend on the object: “It would be terrible to be treated like a paper towel… But it would not be so bad to be treated like an artwork” -- Becca Rothfeld (Harvard) on persons and artworks
Great ideas for adding a social dimension to online conferences -- from C. Thi Nguyen (Utah)
There’s a new enormous mural of Antonio Gramsci in Florence by street artist Jorit -- and it is causing some controversy
Ernest Nagel “was once an academic celebrity in the sciences, the leader of what we may call the scientific wing of pragmatism for a generation” but is “now largely forgotten” -- Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on why "this neglect is a shame"
“Suddenly, we were asked to think directly about the central things that mattered” -- Michael Huemer (Colorado) on what's good and bad about philosophy
“Well, I don’t want to sit by this siren till I die of old age. / So what’s the reason I can’t turn the page? / Simple answer. Shame. / He’s the only man in the world who can see through my game.” -- poet Anne Carson renders Alcibiades's speech in The Symposium in verse (via Aaron Garrett)
“My academic and intellectual independence, the freedom to think things through for myself, hindered only (only!) by my own weaknesses, prejudices, and blind spots, has come at quite a high price” -- Susan Haack (Miami) reflects on her career as a philosopher
What should journal editors ask referees to do? -- Richard Yetter Chappell (Miami) offers some suggestions
Has being a philosopher met your expectations? -- a discussion at The Philosophers' Cocoon
There’s an asymmetry that explains why “transgender identities deserve social uptake and so-called ‘transracial’ identifications… almost always do not” -- but it's not based on "who 'really is' a woman or who 'really is' Black," argue Robin Dembroff (Yale) & Dee Payton (Rutgers)
How many people COVID-19 has killed seems like a straightforward empirical question -- but it's not, as philosopher S. Andrew Schroeder (Claremont McKenna) explains
“Philosophical advances in epistemology and in ethics profoundly shape our points of view. We don’t see them precisely because we see with them” -- an interview with philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
What is a particle? -- ask a dozen physicists, you'll get seven different answers
The British Journal of Aesthetics is celebrating its 60th anniversary -- with 12 short pieces that each look back on a different article the journal previously published, together offering a history of aesthetics over the past several decades
A conversation about hope -- with Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside), Sally Haslanger (MIT), and Jesse Prinz (CUNY)
“What makes the invocation of lived experience such a powerful move – the fact that it’s essentially private, removed from inspection – is exactly what makes it such a perilous one” -- Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) on how "identities are too multiple and complex to allow any individual’s experience to count as truly representative"
“The first thing the police had done was call in M’s three colleagues to see if they knew of anyone who might have a grudge against M. It was hence a great surprise when this somewhat routine procedure generated not leads but confessions—three of them” -- "Philosophy Rashômon," by Liam Bright (LSE)
“We tend to misconstrue the nature of oppositions in philosophy” -- Martin Lenz (Groningen) on how we can be misdirected by feelings of intellectual regret
Games, agency, art, and real life -- C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) in conversation with Carrie Figdor (Iowa)
The virtues of intellectual dependability -- they include intellectual benevolence, transparency, clarity, audience sensitivity, and intellectual guidance, says T. Ryan Byerly (Sheffield)
A public philosophy dispute over pandemic policies -- this links to the 4th installment in the debate between Ben Bramble (ANU) and Ian James Kidd (Nottingham) & Matthew Ratcliffe (York) - click your way back to the start
“Metaphysics does not consist in construction but in investigation” -- Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews) on Susan Stebbing and and the emergence of analytic philosophy
A “fact-check” but for the arguments public figures use -- a new series at PEA Soup
Honor codes can serve as a moral reminder that helps “place our values front and center in our minds” -- Christian Miller (Wake Forest) on the empirical evidence for an old-fashioned way of reducing student cheating
Controversy over a new statue in London intended to honor philosopher and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft -- "I can’t see her feeling happy to be represented by this naked, perfectly formed wet dream of a woman"
The ethical costs of upward mobility -- Jennifer Morton (CUNY) is featured on the NPR podcast Hidden Brain
The virtue of reverence, the wisdom of theater, the qualities of leadership, and more -- in an interview with Paul Woodruff (Texas)
Philosophy of Bitcoin -- Andrew M. Bailey (Yale-NUS), Andrew M. Bailey (Wyoming), and Craig Warmke (NIU) find that cryptocurrency is a philosophically rich topic
Using games, teams, Discord, and additive grading to create an online philosophy course that fosters community and excitement -- Margaret Greta Turnbull (Gonzaga) shares her "gameful" pedagogy

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