Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

Daily Nous

Primary Navigation

About
Comments Policy
Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events
Philosophy Comics
Value of Philosophy
Calls: Papers/Events/Grants/etc.
Non-Academic Hires
Supporters
Heap of Links

proposals

Tag

Conference Panel Proposals

A reader writes in with the following query: (more…)

November 29, 2017 0 0

Paid Advertisements

Recent Comments

Preston Stovall on Obstacles To Curiosity

[S]tudents getting worked up enough to protest certain speakers or object to certain ideas has been a focal point of Haidt & co., and the […]

Animal Symbolicum on Obstacles To Curiosity

And I should emphasize: Whatever else it involves, the project of paideia must involve creating space for viewpoint diversity. Letting the cultivation of curiosity be […]

Animal Symbolicum on Obstacles To Curiosity

Happy to see someone else wary of curiosity's serving as the telos of education. Curiosity sounds good to Tomasi no doubt because it sounds free-market-ish: open-ended, […]

Sam Duncan on Obstacles To Curiosity

So I've thought about this more and I have a few thoughts I'll try to put less polemically than last time, and also proofread a […]

Nate Sheff on Obstacles To Curiosity

Are these meant to address specifically full-time university students, or all students in higher ed? At community colleges, 2, 3, and 4 are big asks. […]

James Cummings on Ismael from Columbia to Johns Hopkins

All speculation aside, may I offer congratulations to Dr. Ismael on moving from one very important position to another? Best wishes to her and the

Kathleen Cook on J.E. "Ted" McGuire (1931-2022)

This just popped up. I met him once but your were a friend, I thought. Sorry! K

Richard Russelll Wood on J.E. "Ted" McGuire (1931-2022)

Had him for an undergrad HPS course in the early 70s. Compelling lecturer. RIP.

Moti Gorin on Obstacles To Curiosity

Justin, on your understanding of what the Heterodox Academy says and does, is their major worry really that students get "worked up enough to protest

Justin Weinberg on Obstacles To Curiosity

My reference was not intended as a guilt-by-association move. Nor am I defending violent protests against guest lecturers. And as I've shown pretty much every […]

Kian Mintz-Woo on Master's Programs in Philosophy

University College Cork (in the south of Ireland) has both an MA in philosophy but also a unique multidisciplinary MA in Health and Society (coordinated […]

ABD on Obstacles To Curiosity

I see now that what I wrote may have been ambiguous. Thanks for adding the link, as it is what I meant to reference (i.e., […]

Subscribe

Archives

Paid Advertisements

Paid Advertisements

Heap of Links

“What I loved about the history of jazz—namely, that subtle changes to chord sequences and key changes could reframe the entire realm of possibilities for musicians in the future—was also a feature of the history of philosophy” -- philosopher Andrea Pitts (UNC Charlotte) is interviewed about their life and work in philosophy, with a particular focus on social identities
What is the value of studying moral dilemmas? -- an exchange between Paul Conway (Portsmouth) and Guy Kahane (Oxford)
“A great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work” -- Bertrand Russell on the value of leisure and its "wise use," in a 1932 issue of Harper's (via The Browser)
“If spectacular forms of white supremacy were to end tomorrow, whiteness as a structure of privilege, power and hegemony would continue” -- George Yancy (Emory) on how "white-perpetrated, anti-Black murder is all too acceptable, consistent and inoffensive to the very fabric of this nation"
“Passing is not without costs: it takes a significant emotional and psychological toll, both on individuals who pass and on the friends and family they may leave behind” -- Meena Krishnamurthy (Queen's) on the "burdened virtue" of racial passing
A missing color -- cognitive scientist and artist Allen Tager tries to figure out what explains why violet was largely missing for much of human history
Philosophy at the movies -- some highlights from the film & philosophy podcast of Justin Khoo (MIT), "Cows in the Field"
“The objection to violence has its limit at the point when fundamental freedoms are at stake” -- understanding Habermas' view on Germany's role in helping Ukraine (via Darrel Moellendorf)
“Raz’s legacy is a body of work united by dense and detailed tissues of understanding, spun between jurisprudence, political philosophy, ethics, and practical reasoning” -- Jeremy Waldron (NYU) on the significance of Joseph Raz's work
If we conceive of time as a kind of veil of ignorance, perhaps the governance of space is a good subject for a Rawlsian approach—but not for long -- more cynical headline: "Rawls's Theory Finally Finds Suitable Application in Lifeless Void, according to Social Scientists"
More on the metaphysics of farts, and the mysterious author of the article smelt round the world -- by Elizabeth Picciuto in Slate
“How much should we dress up for an event when the topic of the talk was body modification?” -- a journalist reports on an event with philosopher Clare Chambers (Cambridge) about bodies, beauty, and shame
“Faddish calls to… ‘center the most marginalized,’ which abound in the academic and leftist activist circles… ‘never sat well with me'” -- a profile of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) in New York Magazine
“If any woman could realize Sartre’s picture of self-defining ‘man,’ Iris might have fancied her chances” -- When Iris Murdoch met Jean-Paul Sartre
“For better or worse, most contemporary philosophers must engage either directly or indirectly with racist philosophers” -- Brandon Hogan (Howard) on how to do it better
How to participate in a philosophical discussion -- a guide for students by Olivia Bailey (Berkeley)
The television show that introduced existentialism to to Americans -- the 10-episode series, "Self-Encounter," aired in 1961 and was hosted by Hazel Barnes
“All of this applying takes an incalculable toll… Maybe we need to imagine whole new worlds where people-picking happens very differently” -- Adam Mastroianni (Columbia) on the costs of, and alternatives to, all the applying for everything we all do (via The Browser)
Some people think that humans matter more than non-human animals because of what we can do, or what we’re like -- but, argues Jeff Sebo (NYU) this "human exceptionalism has it backwards: if anything, we increasingly have capacities-based and relationship-based grounds for prioritising nonhuman animals"
“For any hypothetical future apply the ‘Shakespeare Test,’ which asks: Are there still aspects of Shakespeare’s work reflected in the future civilization?… For do any of us want to live in a world where Shakespeare is obsolete?” -- Erik Hoel on why it's important that the future be human
“It really is unfair to a great number of people, past, present, and future, that current student debt holders would benefit from loan forgiveness while others cannot” -- but that by itself doesn't settle the matter, says Barry Lam (Vassar), because "almost every policy is unfair"
“There is a kind of covert moralism that people build into the causal structure of the universe that justifies overly focusing on being the right kind of person, objecting to the right kinds of things, centering the right sorts of people. This amounts to a refusal to look forward” -- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) is interviewed about his two recent books
“What you need is to have the classroom as a space where we’re not talking left wing and right wing but offering the learning that students need to be able to come to their own positions and judgments” -- Wendy Brown (Princeton) interviewed about politicization, academic freedom, free speech, and today's students
“I contrast the essential-bum-origin view with a phenomenological view, and I argue in favour of the latter” -- Bill Capra on the metaphysics of farts
Three key tips for philosophy students seeking to work outside of academia -- from Ryan Stelzer, who finished an MA in philosophy, worked in the White House, and now has his own consulting firm
The “famous” Michael Huemer – Richard Yetter-Chappell debate about utilitarianism -- hosted by Matthew Adelstein (video)
“When looking to identify the boundaries of species, the branches on the tree of life, or even what counts as life itself, we should be careful about assumptions that come from our very human perspective of biology” -- Gunnar O. Babcock (Duke) on the fascinating questions we face once we appreciate that "life as we know it is overwhelmingly, by many orders of magnitude, asexual"
What if we “reject the orthodox view that the quantum universe must be described by a wave function”? -- we will have a better interpretation of quantum mechanics, argues Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD)
“What desires are politically important?” -- that was the question Bertrand Russell asked in his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech in 1950
“Things may not be as prim and proper as they appeared to Strawson in his Oxford haven” -- a philosopher's application of natural language processing to social media in the wake of George Floyd's murder suggests a need to expand our conception of reactive attitudes

∙ 2021 ©Daily Nous ∙