November 2024
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Great moments in rock ‘n’ roll covers: D.O.A., “Taking Care of Business,” 1987
This Vancouver punk band (the "Canadian 'Dead Kennedys'" as they are sometimes called) did this distinctive version of the great 1973 BTO rocker in 1987: Feel free to post links to your favorite punk rock covers of more conventional rock and pop songs.
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University of Sydney’s bizarre new “free [sic] speech” policy
Reader Will Moisis writes: You may be interested in the University of Sydney’s extraordinary hamfisted attempt at limiting free speech on their campus. They received 51 submissions, and the report recommends: “Mr Hodgkinson acknowledges that academic freedom and freedom of speech are fundamental to the University and that these rights are limited by the law.…
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Top 15 Philosophy Ph.D. Programs in the U.K., 2024-25
MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 15, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT Ranked by rounded mean—medians and modes will be published on the PGR site. Region Rank UK Rating 1 Oxford University 4.6 2 Cambridge University 3.7 3 University of Edinburgh 3.5 4 University of St. Andrews/Stirling Joint Program 3.4 5 University College London…
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Top 9 Programs in 19th-Century Continental Philosophy, 2024-25
Full results, including the programs with a rounded mean of 3.0, will appear at the PGR site. Evaluators and a few commetns below the fold. 19th Century Continental Rounded Mean Median Mode Group Boston University 4.0 4.00 4 Group 1 New York University 4.0 4.00 3.5 Group 1 University of Chicago 4.0 4.00 4, 5…
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NYT account of how the Congressional assault on Universities last Spring…
…led the schools to crack down on lawful political expression that House Republicans did not like. Universities were running scared before Trump's election; imagine what next year will bring. UPDATE: Dr. Roger Albin at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor writes: Thanks for posting the NYT piece on the crackdown on protests at universities. While…
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Australia bans social media for those under 16
We can now run a natural experiment and see if rates of depression and anxiety change in young people there.
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Top 12 programs in epistemology, 2024-25
Full results will appear at the PGR website; evaluators are listed below the fold. Epistemology (incl. formal epistemology) Rounded Mean Median Mode Group Oxford University 4.5 4.50 4.5, 5 Group 1 Rutgers University, New Brunswick 4.5 4.50 4.5 Group 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.0 4.00 4 Group 2 New York University 4.0 4.50 4…
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The rise and fall of “The Future of Humanity Institute” at Oxford
Interesting account of the mostly bad scifi passing as philosophy. "Effective [i.e., short-term, measurable] altruism" also makes an appearance.
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Top 9 programs in philosophy of law, 2024-25
Here are the top two groupings in philosophy of law, based on rounded mean. The full results, including the programs with a rounded mean of 3.5 and 3.0 will appear at the PGR site. Evaluators and some comments are beneath the fold. Philosophy of Law Rounded Mean Median Mode Group Group String New York University…
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Top 15 Programs in Moral Psychology for 2024-25
The full ranking, including the programs with a rounded mean of 3.0, will appear at the PGR site. Moral Psychology Rounded Mean Median Mode Group Cornell University 4.0 4.50 4.5, 4 Group 1 University of California, Los Angeles 4.0 4.00 3.5, 4, 5 Group 1 University of Chicago 4.0 3.50 3 Group 1 Yale University…
I’m a software engineer who works at “AI adjacent” startups, and I think this article is a bit dramatic, but…