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May 23, 2017 3 11

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Tom Hurka on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

C.D. Broad, a great and often very funny writer, on love (from his Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy): If we may compare prolonged and successful sexual love […]

Matt King on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

“We agents are not our judgments, we are not our ideals for ourselves, we are not our values, we are not our univocal wishes; we […]

Rog on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

"Tedium is the vehicle of an abstract authority, and the reader waits in the corridors of Habermas’s prose like a petitioner to whom the truth

Henry on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

Si on me presse, continue-t-il, de dire pourquoi je l’aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu’en répondant: parce que c’était lui; parce […]

Sam Duncan on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

Some other people have already quoted a lot of the prettier lines from Kant, so I'll go with two that, while not beautiful, are quite […]

Alen Lipus on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

So exactly what in this case is supposed to be delusive? What is wrong, what is even faintly surprising, in the idea of a stick […]

Julia on Going To Grad School Despite the Odds

My fallback plan was to be a philosophy high school teacher in Germany. I went to undergrad there and took all the necessary classes for […]

J. David Velleman on Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors' Websites

BLOGIC is an interactive online textbook covering the standard syllabus in logic taught by most American philosophy departments. Topics include: Symbolizing argumentsTruth tablesNatural deduction for propositional logicModels for […]

Zachary Fruhling on Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors' Websites

Introduction to Logic, 15-week video lecture series: https://www.zacharyfruhling.com/philosophy-blog/introduction-to-logic-15-week-video-lecture-series

Rollo Burgess on Going To Grad School Despite the Odds

For what it is worth and to offset some observations here about survivorship bias: I was doing a Masters and was considering doing a PhD, […]

Simplicissimus on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

It seems that the background assumption of the paper is that philosophy has made some kind of progress, and that today we stand in a […]

Trevor Hedberg on Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors' Websites

It hasn't been updated in a while, but the bottom half of my teaching page has a cluster of resources for undergraduate students about academics

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The laws of nature, time, quantum mechanics, strong determinism, vagueness, and more -- an interview with Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD) at 3:16AM
“To understand the world more objectively or impartially, we must adopt more perspectives on it. And so it turns out that empathy makes us less, not more, biased” -- Heidi L. Maibom (U. of the Basque Country, U. of Cincinnati) kicks off a symposium at Brains on her new book, "The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works"
An upcoming video game is about Arthur Schopenhauer as a student “seeking prohibited knowledge” -- developed by Toby Svoboda, "The Life of Arthur" will be released next week
“Analytic philosophy, even at its most technical, is one way of tackling those fundamental tasks [of securing grounding and direction in life], and as such serves the same emotional needs that non-philosophers reveal to us during our classes, at parties and in hair salons, planes and Ubers” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) wraps up her series on analytic philosophy and the meaning of life
“We laugh at ‘something mechanical encrusted on the living’” -- Emily Herring (Ghent) on Bergson's philosophy of laughter
“There seems to be nothing that in principle cannot be taught in a college classroom provided its relevance to the course” -- Carlo DaVia (Fordham) has produced a guide to help professors untangle and address different potential moral problems related to teaching and classroom speech
“The puzzle of addiction: why do people keep using drugs, given that costs outweigh benefits?… Costs and benefits can only be weighed relative to a set of values [so] whose values determine when drug use becomes addiction?” -- Hanna Pickard (JHU) is interviewed about how to understand addiction
“Just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions across the country between 2011 and 2020,” according to a new study -- and "depending on the field, only 5–23% of faculty members worked at an institution more prestigious than the one at which they earned their PhD"
“I am an American Philosopher” is a series of interviews (15, so far) with philosophers published by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy -- here's one with Eric Mullis (Queens University of Charlotte), who brings together dance and philosophy
“I’ve always thought I was better at helping other people think through their ideas than I was at generating new or ground-breaking things of my own. I used to be ashamed of that, but now that I’ve got students of my own, it’s one of my favourite skills to use” -- Audrey Yap (Victoria) is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?
“Too often, well-intentioned calls to ‘diversify the profession’ of academia seem to be motivated by brute desires for demographic representation…. That intelligence comes in many forms suggests a better rationale” -- Devin Sanchez Curry (West Virginia) on appreciating "Grandma's metaphysics"
Princeton has so big an endowment that it could, from now on, let in every student for free and still have at least $1.9 billion left over each year -- So why don't they? The author raises this question, but doesn't really try to answer it, and so doesn't seem to realize what's to be learned from it (via The Browser)
“The Mystery of Consciousness,” a live public philosophy discussion, took place this past summer in Liverpool -- featuring Philip Goff, Laura Gow, Anil Seth, Jack Symes, Rowan Williams, and a string quartet
“Gareth paced up and down and told me he was worrying about me a lot. I had to realise, he said, that I was extremely stupid and would need to work very hard to get any kind of degree. I wasn’t in the least offended” -- Lincoln Allison (Warwick) remembers Gareth Evans, who "made intellectual activity exhilarating"
When (and why) are some things best left to the imagination? -- Jennifer Church (Vassar) considers the question
“Young Plato,” a documentary about a headteacher in Belfast who brings philosophy into the teaching at his elementary school, will be screened in the United States -- it's "a very engaging film" according to The Guardian
“There has not been time to come up with the nuances on how [AI art generators] should be used, and large numbers of very different stakeholders have suddenly shown up at the artists’ door, kicking it in” -- Anders Sandberg (Oxford) on some of the issues AI art raises in moral, social, and political philosophy
“When a philosopher has misgivings about the value of philosophy, they’re not just asking ‘why,’ but ‘why why?,’ which is fancier” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) recovers her gratitude for philosophy
The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) launches a monthly podcast called “Knowledge for Breakfast” -- hosted by Fabien Medvecky (Otago) & Michiel van Oudheusden (KU Leuven), the first episode is on "Epistemic Shame and Imposter Syndrome"
You feel attraction to someone? Which of the 12,228 possible versions of this feeling? -- Maria Heim (Amherst) on how India’s "sophisticated traditions of philosophical reflection" explore "the nuances of felt experience with fine-grained particularity"
On “private and public sector jobs in a burgeoning ontological sector, involving the commercial and industrial applications of ontology across diverse industries” -- an interview with Barry Smith (Buffalo)
Philosophers on the tools of neuroscientific experimentation -- a discussion with contributions from Ann-Sophie Barwich, John Bickle, Dan Burnston, Carl Craver, and Valerie Hardcastle
“What is the main impediment to offline creativity? In short, not allowing one’s mind to be offline—rarely choosing, or having the chance, to be alone with one’s thoughts, and to let one’s mind wander” -- Peter Carruthers (Maryland) on a contemporary threat to creativity
“Schelling’s philosophy of oneness might provide a foundation on which to anchor the fight for our climate and our survival” -- historian Andrea Wulf thinks that Friedrich Schelling is just what the environmental movement needs (NYT)
Philosophy professor Robert Pinto (Windsor), who died in 2019, was “one of tens of thousands of residents in Canadian long-term care homes without a psychosis diagnosis that have been prescribed antipsychotics” -- some commentary from Shelley Tremain, who links to a CBC investigative report
“We have to get used to the idea that there may be agents around who are just as intelligent and capable and involved and… committed or reliable as humans and that we need to think about how they matter” -- Peter Railton (Michigan) is interviewed by Katrien Devolder (Oxford) about how we should understand and interact with AI
How “dialogically dense” are different works of philosophy? -- a machine learning algorithm can determine the extent to which an author mentions other persons, and Alexander Klein (McMaster) used it to compare the works of James and Dewey
“If we take Tolkien at his word and read LTR as a ‘true mythology’ of our own earth, then we will find that the text metamorphoses chillingly from a quaint otherworldly fantasy into a literal transcription of one of the most malignant ideologies of the past millennium: the racist ‘Aryan Myth'” -- a previously unpublished piece by the late Charles Mills (now unpaywalled)
“We must be mindful of the way scientific and political discourses are intertwined—and of the limitations of what science communication and popularization by itself can achieve” -- evidence suggests that anti-science attitudes among the public aren't owed to a lack of knowledge, but a lack of trust, write Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) and Silvia Ivani (Univ. College Dublin)
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” But what about a dolphin? -- a professor of cognitive psychology, a neuroscientist, and a neurobiologist discuss dolphin language

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