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Lives of Philosophers

Al Mele Interviewed at “What Is It Like…?”

June 29, 2015

Clifford Sosis (Coastal Carolina) continues his series of interviews at “What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?” (previously) with Florida State University’s Al…
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Philosopher Arrested For Protesting Fracking

June 2, 2015

Adam Briggle, associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Texas, has been arrested for engaging in a protest at a Vantage Energy…
Lives of Philosophers

Interviewed

May 29, 2015

Clifford Sosis continues his series at What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? (previously here, here, and here) with an interview of, uh, me. For…
Lives of Philosophers

Mary Louise Gill Interviewed

May 15, 2015

Clifford Sosis continues his very interesting series of interviews with philosophers with Mary Louise Gill of Brown University. There’s a lot in this one,…
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Hobbies of Philosophers: Steff Rocknak

March 30, 2015

For this installment of “Hobbies of Philosophers”, I talked to Steff Rocknak, professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. Steff works on Hume, Quine, philosophy…

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Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
More generally, that's often the pattern with these types of pieces: They find examples of literature that examine or challenge traditional, dominant conceptions of sex/gender; they then complain…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Going by the abstract alone, it sounds like the entire paper is built on question-begging. That is, the author notices that their preferred definitions and conceptualizations aren't in…
Ann Garry on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I was thinking these lines too. Good heavens. One article almost 10 years ago. Why so many comments on it too?
Rob on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes, for instance, section 7 of the "Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues" SEP entry twice cites the Hasenbush et al 2019 study whose "fatal flaws" have recently been…
Jessie Ewesmont on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes, relitigating the Tuvel affair for the 500th time in the last decade seems like a great way to figure out the state of academic philosophy today.
Moti Gorin on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
"Yet none of these [external threats] are threats that concern Fine and Rosen (though they mention some briefly in passing)." The Vanderbilt/WashU report was explicitly aimed at "examin[ing]…
Oliver Traldi on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Here is what Bettcher wrote elsewhere about the Tuvel affair: "The most notable controversy, however, concerned Hypatia itself and, in particular, the publication of an essay about transgender…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Arguably, they *are* experts in everything, but it is not the case that for each thing, they are experts in that thing.
Marc Champagne on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Real or imagined… I was writing about this lopsidedness ten years ago: https://philpapers.org/archive/CHAPBS.pdf
William Lewis on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
There are a bunch of published responses to tuvel’s paper and many others that cite it positively and negatively. Of course, we never know those papers that were…
Margaret Atherton on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
It seemed odd to me that Fine and Rosen spent so much time talking about the Tuval affair, a single incident not representative of any body of knowledge…
RebecaPL on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Bettcher and Saul are right in contesting the view that, within the philosophy of sex and gender, "an orthodoxy reigns according to which “trans women are women and…
Philosoraptor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I echo what others, such as bob jones and Erik, have said about the treatment of Tuvel. I find the way that the authors talk about the treatment…
UK philosopher on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Sadly I find this poorly argued and somewhat self-undermining. For one, note how the authors characterise gender-critical philosophy: they characterise work here first as “aggressively anti-trans” , and…
Marc Champagne on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Thermometer reading: the fewer posts include real names, the greater the chilling effect.