May 2019
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Great moments in rock ‘n’ roll covers: Black Pistol Fire, “Oh Well”
And here's a contemporary rock band covering, and putting a distinctive imprint, on the Peter Green classic:
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Evangelical Christianity as public policy, an ongoing saga
More viciousness towards transgender people from the religious fanatics surrounding Trump.
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Moral psychology with Nietzsche, at the LARB
Yesterday Plato's moral psychology, today it's my turn to talk to Andy Fitch at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Plato’s moral psychology
Philosopher Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell) talks with Andy Fitch at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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The crisis of the humanities: it’s the lack of jobs, not “white privilege” that’s the problem
Andrew Kay, who earned a PhD in English but could not secure a job, wrote a memorable and much-discussed essay a couple of weeks ago about the disconnect between goings-on at the annual meeting of the Modern Languages Association and the disastrous job market for new PhDs. As if to confirm his point about the…
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“What is a woman?”
Philosopher Kathleen Stock (Sussex) discusses the topic at Philosophy Bites. (Thanks to S. Wallerstein for the pointer.)
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Two philosophers elected to the American Philosophical Society
They are: Jonathan Lear (Chicago) and Judith Jarvis Thomson (emerita, MIT).
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The Good: Relative or Objective?
Philosophers Paul Boghossian (NYU), Naomi Goulder (New College of the Humanities), and Michael Ruse (Florida State) discuss.
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In Memoriam: Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte (1933-2019)
A longtime member of the Florida State University faculty, he served as Dean of the College of Law in the 1980s and then as President of the University; he was also a past President of the American Bar Association. The FSU memorial notice is here.
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What are “conspiracy theories”?
Philosopher Quassim Cassam (Warwick) comments.
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In Memoriam: John Copeland Nagle (1960-2019)
A leading environmental law scholar, Professor Nagle taught at the University of Notre Dame for the last twenty years. The ND memorial notice is here.
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The United States: still the most dangerous country on the planet!
Six trillion spent on war since 9/11, killing more than a half million people (that's a conservative estimate, obviously not counting lives foreseeably lost because of U.S. military actions).
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Taiwan becomes the first (!) country in Asia to fully legalize same-sex marriage
A remarkable step, and also remarkable how rare this is in Asia. The reactionary stance of so many Asian countries on this issue leads to absurd situations like this one in Japan, where a trans woman has her new gender identity recognized by law, but her marriage of 19 years may be endangered because Japan…
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Three law professors elected to American Philosophical Society
They are: S. James Anaya (Colorado), Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard), and Patricia Williams (Columbia currently, but moving to Northeastern).
It would be a shame if bad philosophy of mind got us all killed. AI can absolutely have desires and…