December 2021
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“Why Omicron is scaring me”
Philosopher Gregory Pence, a leading bioethicist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, gave permission to share these concerns: The fact that cases of the Omicron variant are doubling every 2.5 days in England and Europe worries me, and the cases seem to be doubling despite 89% of the English having one “jab” and many…
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“Why Omicron is scaring me”
Philosopher Gregory Pence, a leading bioethicist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, gave permission to share these concerns: The fact that cases of the Omicron variant are doubling every 2.5 days in England and Europe worries me, and the cases seem to be doubling despite 89% of the English having one “jab” and many…
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Dennett on Rorty’s newly published “unpublished” papers
An appreciative (perhaps generous) review: I’m also a bit chagrined to now acknowledge that the definition in my Philosophical Lexicon of ‘ a rortiori’ (adj. ‘for even more obscure and fashionable Continental reasons’) has probably contributed to a caricature of Rorty’s work that is all too convenient: an idea of the analytic philosopher turned Continental…
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Dennett on Rorty’s newly published “unpublished” papers
An appreciative (perhaps generous) review: I’m also a bit chagrined to now acknowledge that the definition in my Philosophical Lexicon of ‘ a rortiori’ (adj. ‘for even more obscure and fashionable Continental reasons’) has probably contributed to a caricature of Rorty’s work that is all too convenient: an idea of the analytic philosopher turned Continental…
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APA Prizes announced…
…including the Book Prize, Gitler Prize, and the Dewey Lecturers.
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APA Prizes announced…
…including the Book Prize, Gitler Prize, and the Dewey Lecturers.
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Some predictions from Robert Paul Wolff
Here, with some resonance with my own earlier comments.
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Some predictions from Robert Paul Wolff
Here, with some resonance with my own earlier comments.
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PGR 2021 Preview: what the summary of specialty rankings by department will look like
Below the fold, I give two examples, for Cornell (#19 overall, in a tie)) and for MIT (#7 overall, in a tie). This should be particularly useful for students figuring out where to apply given their interests.
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PGR 2021 Preview: what the summary of specialty rankings by department will look like
Below the fold, I give two examples, for Cornell (#19 overall, in a tie)) and for MIT (#7 overall, in a tie). This should be particularly useful for students figuring out where to apply given their interests.
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PGR 2021 Preview: Anglophone programs by “median” score
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SATURDAY, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT Below the fold are the Anglophone programs with a median score of 3.0 or higher:
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…