August 2013
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New Books in August
Philosophers and/or publishers kindly sent me the following new books this month: Moral Character: An Empirical Theory by Christian B. Miller (Oxford University Press, 2013). Aristotle: His Life and School by Carlos Natali, edited by D.S. Hutchinson (Princeton University Press, 2013).
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On Syria
This is illuminating. It would be yet another outrageous violation of international law for the U.S. to attack Syria, but as the world knows, this will not factor into the decision. (Thanks to Charles Pigden for the pointer.) UPDATE: Philippe Lemoine, a grad student at Cornell, writes with some additional and important information:
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Can animals be moral?
Of course not! But Mark Rowlands (Miami) disagrees.
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A new site for comparing employment outcomes for law schools
This looks to be useful.
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Wisconsin’s Lawrence Shapiro Wins 2013 Gittler Award from APA for a contribution to philosophy of the social sciences
Details here. This is the second year in a row that a Wisconsin philosopher has received the Gittler Award!
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Happy 50th anniversary, all! (Rebecca Kukla)
From me and from Joseph Stiglitz.
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Philosopher’s Annual: Ten Best Papers of 2012
Here are the papers recognized this year; I'll move this to the front when links to the papers are available: Selections from the literature of 2012: Michael Caie, “Belief and Indeterminacy”, Philosophical Review 121 (1), 1-54 Justin Clarke-Doane, “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge,” Ethics 122 (2012): 313-340. David Enoch, Levi Spectre, & Talia Fisher,…
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More thoughts about philosophy and social norm violation (Rebecca Kukla)
Drawing on helpful facebook discussions in the wake of yesterday’s post, I now think there are at least three (pernicious) versions of the perceived connection between being a ‘real’ philosopher and social norm violation. – First, we have a tendency to excuse systematic social norm violations in (successful!) (male!) philosophers, taking them as adorable quirks…
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Saul on sexual harassment and some late thoughts about McGinn (Rebecca Kukla)
UPDATE: Upon consultation and reflection, and with trepidation, I am opening up comments on this thread. I will be moderating them *heavily*. FURTHER UPDATE: I will not publish any pseudonymous/anonymous comments unless there is an obvious and compelling reason to do so. UPDATE TO THE FURTHER UPDATE: Opening up comments has turned out to be…
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Alva Noe on MOOCs (Rebecca Kukla)
The conversation on the previous MOOC thread is vigorous and interesting. To add to the mix, here is an interesting piece that Alva Noe wrote on MOOCs for NPR a few months ago.
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Ethical reflections on MOOC-making (Rebecca Kukla)
UPDATE: Signed comments preferred. Non-sketchy email addresses required. Hi all! It is, as always, some combination of fun and anxiety-producing to be guest blogging here again. Many thanks to Brian for inviting me back, and happy start of the fall term to everyone. So my unit is making a MOOC. I will admit that I’ve…
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Portraits of philosophers
Here. (Thanks to Meghan Sullivan for the pointer.)
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More than a century’s worth of philosophers at Michigan
An interesting list here. Not all the dates are accurate, but most are (to the best of my knowledge). (Thanks to Jonathan Strassfield for the pointer.)
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Georgia State’s George Graham talks about philosophy and psychiatry…
…in this video courtesy of OUP.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…