Tag: philosophers
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Paris Attacked
France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 120 people were killed in a night of gun and…
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Philosophers Among The Browser’s Nominees for Best Writing
You don’t often hear praise in popular culture for the writing of contemporary philosophers, yet The Browser, a popular aggregator of online writing, has included…
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A College without Philosophy? A Philosophy Department without Philosophers? (updated)
After program cut upon program cut, at what point does a liberal arts institution cease to be one? That’s the question in an article…
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Philosophers by Subject Area (updated)
The Philosophy Documentation Center‘s mailing lists provides a breakdown of how many U.S. and Canadian philosophers claim various areas of specialization. I don’t know…
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What It’s Like to Be Josh Knobe
A new interview is up at What Is It Like To Be a Philosopher?, this time with Joshua Knobe (Yale). Interviewer Clifford Sosis (Coastal…
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Trolls in the Philosophical Blogosphere (Ought Experiment)
Welcome back to Ought Experiment! We had ourselves quite the weekend, didn’t we? Well hang on to your armchairs, folks, because apparently it’s time…
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What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?
What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher? is the new project of Clifford Sosis (Coastal Carolina). What’s it all about? He says: I decided to start What Is…
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In a Possible World Far, Far Away
By now you’ve all seen the new Star Wars trailer, so, philosofriends… “I find your bad faith disturbing” — Sartre Vader
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Five Philosophers Win NHC Fellowships
Five philosophers are among the winners of fellowships from the National Humanities Center. They are: Sara Bernstein (Philosophy, Duke University) What Might Have Been:…
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Philosophers Threatened for Objecting to Talk by Holocaust Denier
Philosophers at St. Olaf College and Carleton College objected when a local pub, The Contented Cow, scheduled conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier Jim Fetzer…
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“Motivational” Posters from Philosophers
Flavorwire posts a set of (de)motivational posters featuring quotes “from your favorite depressing philosophers.” Philosophers, I think we can do better. My attempts: These…
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Hobbies of Philosophers: Meg Wallace
For the second installment of our Hobbies of Philosophers series, I talked with Meg Wallace (Kentucky). Meg works on metaphysics and philosophy of language,…
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Philosophers from Poverty 2: Suggestions
The post, “Philosophers from Poverty,” is still growing, with a range of interesting, informative, and often moving accounts of the lives of philosophers from…
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Habermas on the Return of Exiled Jewish Philosophers
In an essay at Tablet Magazine, Jürgen Habermas describes the impact of Jewish philosophers and sociologists who returned to Germany after the Holocaust. An exceerpt:…
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Does Philosophy Make Us Better People?
Someone posted at the Philosophy Metametablog recently the following excerpt from an interview with Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh) conducted by Charlie Hobbs (Texas State) and published in Kinesis which seems worth discussing, particularly in…
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Philosopher-Celebrity Lookalikes
Brian Talbot (Washington University in St. Louis) has been pairing up well-known philosophers with the celebrities who look like them. He kindly agreed to let…
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Philacronyms (Friday Fun)
This week’s Friday Fun comes courtesy of David Boonin (University of Colorado). Thank you, David, for your suggestion, and for inspiring others to send…