Tag: progress in philosophy
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Enough Ranking (guest post)
“The project of ranking one place against another completely distorts the sorts of aspirations we should have for the field.”
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Progress in Philosophy
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is becoming the most well-known defender of the idea that philosophy makes progress. Last year, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, she wrote: Philosophy was…
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The Intellectual Costs of Misconduct (guest post)
The following is a guest post* from a woman graduate student in philosophy who wishes to remain anonymous. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the complicated…
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Is Bio-Medical Ethics Failing?
What medical ethics needs is more and better philosophy—and a return to the adventurousness and originality of its pioneering days. There have been successes—euthanasia…
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When Is Philosophical Agreement Suspicious?
Last week, in the post about philosophy of religion, I wrote: For a few reasons, it is not a sociologically surprising fact that most philosophy…