Tag: news
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Public Philosophy and the News (guest post by Alexis Papazoglou)
Philosophy still can, and should, be done in the service of helping others make sense of our contemporary shadows on the wall: the never-ending…
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The Today Show Reports on an APA Meeting… in 1990
Back in 1990, the Today Show aired a segment on a meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), taking place in New Orleans.
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UGA “Vigorously Exploring All Available Legal Options” It Can Take Against Philosophy Grad Student
A University of Georgia (UGA) alumnus’s expression of bafflement at his alma mater’s failure to condemn remarks made by a philosophy graduate student at…
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The Targeting of Philosopher Tommy J. Curry
Mr. Dreher’s post sent [Professor Curry’s] words racing across a network that was primed for racial outrage—like New York City’s black-radio scene circa 2001, but…
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Bertrand Russell Society & Others Sign Onto Anti-Nuke Letter to Trump & Putin
In his capacity as president of the Bertrand Russell Society, philosopher Timothy Madigan (St. John Fisher College) has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and…
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2016 Philosophy News in Review, Part 3
Here’s part three of our look back at the news, issues, and events that occupied the attention of the philosophy profession in 2016 (part…
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Judge Dismisses Kaufman Lawsuit Against Colorado
Last March, University of Colorado associate professor of philosophy Dan Kaufman filed a lawsuit against the university “alleging the school both discriminated and retaliated against…
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Daily Nous Year In Review
2015 is drawing to a close. I hope you had a good year. The year saw Daily Nous’s first birthday (in March) and a…
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U.S. Politics with Logical and Factual Annotation
This is a great public service and a great idea. Stefan Schubert, a visiting philosophy professor at the London School of Economics, and Spencer Greenberg,…
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Philosophers on the Charleston Massacre
About 9 p.m., the Bible study concludes. As the group prepares to share a concluding prayer, Roof suddenly stands, pulls out a .45-caliber semi-automatic…
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Philosophy Students: A Tumblr
Zac Cogley (Northern Michigan) has created a tumblr featuring links about and pictures of people in the news who have majored in or otherwise studied philosophy. It’s…
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Philosopher May Hold Record For Most Letters To The Editor
Felicia Nimue Ackerman, a philosopher at Brown, has had over 200 letters to the editor published in the New York Times, The New Yorker…