May 2019
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Hair discrimination as race discrimination
Philosopher and lawyer Nicholas Serafin (Michigan) comments.
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Esoteric thought of the day
Ernst Thälmann was right that a vote for Hindenburg was a vote for Hitler. He was alas wrong about other things.
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Philosophy at night at the University of Chicago
A nice write-up in the Chicago Tribune about my colleague Agnes Callard's very popular "Night Owl" series for undergraduates.
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Great moments in covers of “Oh Well”: Johnny Gallagher, 2015
A great Irish blues guitarist does his brilliant solo version of this month's song:
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ABA’s legal education council adopts stricter bar passage standards for law schools
Details here, changes that could affect 10% of law schools that are presently accredited. What we are sure to see in response to this change is twofold: first, law schools worried about running afoul of the rule (and that will be more than just 10% of law schools) will increase bar-prep courses in the second…
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Irish President, presenting young philosopher award: “we [do not] exist to be made useful”
The Irish President is an admirably humane person: Ireland needs to guard against a reengineering of the education system under the assumption that “we exist to be made useful”, President Michael D Higgins has said. Attending the Irish Young Philosopher Awards 2019 at UCD’s O’Reilly Hall, the President said “talk of a knowledge society and…
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“Transphobia”
MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 1, 2019–STILL RELEVANT, ALAS One of the tactics for shutting down rational discussion of the gender self-ID law in the U.K. is the accusation of "transphobia." Because I've given attention to the important and substantive views of several feminist and gay philosophers writing about this issue–perhaps most prominently, Kathleen…
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Leaving the Mormon Church
A fascinating account from philosopher Spencer Case, which sheds interesting light on the techniques of indoctrination, although they didn't work in his case.
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Entry-level hiring report for 2019
MOVING TO FRONT–ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 5 Professor Lawsky (Northwestern) is now collecting information.
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Another one bites the dust
Feminist Philosophers, the second-oldest major philosophy blog (after this one), will be closing down after 13 years. (We turn 16 in August.) Over the years, I've linked many times to useful items at the FP blog (most recently, but see also, further back, here and here and here and here; back in those days, I…
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The Onion on self-satisfied “liberals” (read: the typical illiberal “woke” member of the Twitterati)
All-too-apt: Taking a moment to reflect on his hard-won personal accomplishment, area liberal Tom Hudson expressed relief Monday that he would never again have to engage in self-examination after finally assembling all the correct opinions….“It’s such a huge weight off my shoulders. I never have to consider my place in society or my impact on…
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Error theory: I can’t believe it!
Philosopher Bart Streumer (Groningen) comments.
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The unfolding disaster for higher education and research in Brazil under the fascist Bolsonaro
An informative thread (in English) from a Brazilian philosopher currently teaching in Europe. If you're on Twitter, please do share it with others.
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Philosatire on Twitter
Still the funniest and most apt description of Twitter. ("Philosatire" arose after the "site visit" fiasco at Colorado back in 2014: for example.)
I don’t think it’s that the philosophical debates will become irrelevant in your example, so much that your example demonstrates…