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“Post-apocalyptical fiction” section, please
No comment needed:
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Blast from the past: when “trigger warnings” were a “thing”
Back in 2016. (And here and here.)
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Toad, “Pig’s Walk,” 1971
Here's a heavy number from the Swiss hard rock outfit's debut album; you can hear the Hendrix influence all over it:
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It’s official: the University [sic] of Tulsa is now…
…the Tulsa Vocational School of Technical and Pre-Professional Education. (Prior coverage.) (Thanks to Chris Swoyer for the pointer.)
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Alan Dershowitz just met the “pro se” plaintiff from hell
"Pro se" litigants are those who represent themselves; usually they are not lawyers. But in this case, the plaintiff is David Boies, one of the most successful litigators in private practice over the last half-century. The complaint is here: Download Boies-Complaint. All the claims are for false statements Dershowitz has made to the press accusing…
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Trump’s life of crime, a continuing saga
Fake charity edition.
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“OK boomer” and “I know you are, but what am I?”
Thoughts from philosopher Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State); an excerpt: What it signals is that there will be – can be – no genuine youth rebellion from this generation; that the kids who in previous eras would have risked being hung from a tree, while trying to register black southerners to vote, or face being shot…
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What makes science trustworthy?
Philip Kitcher (Columbia) discusses a recent book, and there is lots to learn here, especially for those not familiar with the history and philosophy of science.
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“Culture and Value in Nietzsche”
I've posted my review essay on Andrew Huddleston's instructive recent book on Nietzsche and culture; here's the abstract for those who might be interested: This review essay discusses a recent book by Andrew Huddleston that examines Nietzsche's views on culture, in particular, culture understood as “the collective life of a people, understood as akin to…
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Italian fascists angry about being asked to oppose religious and ethnic hatred
What a species we are. She survived the Nazis, now she has to survive their descendants in Italy. UPDATE: Historian Brian Ogilvie (U Mass/Amherst) calls to my attention this sadly apt cartoon.
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Two Social Media Excrescences
Narcissistic child on Twitter responding to an adult: "OK, boomer." Retort: "People who think baby boomers are a homogenous and politically pernicious group are just giving away that they think all old people are as rich as their parents." UPDATE: A reader points out that Kate "enough about my book, what do you think about…
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Legalized house theft…
…in Michigan. Unless there's more to this story, this is remarkably outrageous, and some court should strike down the law on due process grounds, if nothing else.
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Horrifying!
But why? Philosopher David Livingstone Smith (New England) comments.
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Blast from the past: why Osama bin Laden supported George W. Bush’s re-election
Back in 2004. UPDATE: Reader Mike G. kindly points out that the 2004 link to bin Laden's statement is broken, but one can still find it here.
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Christian List (LSE) on free will
Professor List continues the detailed precis of his recent book at the LSE Philosophy blog.
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Kripke on the “Dogmatism Paradox”…
…at IAITV.
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Pedigree and quality
It's rational for hiring schools to consider pedigree, as we've discussed on many prior occasions. In the PGR era, everyone knows that an Ivy League name is compatible with being a top 30 or a top 5 department, and students and more faculty know that excellence in various specialties does not track "brand name" of…
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Wolff on Kant or McCarthy doing Spicer?
YouTube viewers decide.
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The Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy deserves a Beggruen Prize
Legal philosopher John Tasioulas (King's College, London) made this excellent suggestion on Twitter. Of course, the Beggruen Prize lost most of its credibility with this year's choice, but giving a million dollars to SEP would actually serve a real purpose in the Internet era of making high quality philosophical work available across the globe! This…
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Electronic voting in America: who owns it and runs it?
This does not make for happy reading, but U.S. citizens should take a look.
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Does experimental philosophy have a P-hacking problem?
It appears not. UPDATE: Another article comparing psychology and x-phil.
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Anscombe papers go to Penn
A catch for Penn, but is she really "the most important" 20th-century female philosopher? De Beauvoir? Murdoch? Ruth Barcan Marcus? Philippa Foot? Marjorie Grene? Susan Stebbing? Some of these folks are less read now than Anscombe, to be sure. And Anscombe had greater breadth than some of these figures. (I've commissioned volumes on Anscombe, and…
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Richard Marshall interviews Dan Arnold (Chicago)…
..about Buddhist philosophy of mind, at 3:16 AM.
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Elf, “Hoochie Koochie Lady,” 1972
Late 60s/early 70s American band, featuring proto-heavy-metal musician and singer Dio, this is probably their best song:
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Glanzberg from Northwestern to Rutgers
Michael Glanzberg (philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics), Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he will start in January 2020. That's another blow for Northwestern, which earlier this year lost another tenured faculty member in these areas, Fabrizio Cariani.
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New Books in October
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Bergson by Mark Sinclair (London: Routledge, 2020) (this is in the Routledge Philosophers series) Merleau-Ponty, 2nd edition by Taylor Carman (London: Routledge, 2020) (this is in the Routledge Philosophers series) Leibniz, 2nd edition by Nicholas Jolley (London: Routledge, 2020) (this is in the Routledge…
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Our old friend Lawrence VanDyke just got whacked by the American Bar Association
It seems like not much has changed in the last fifteen years.
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Kiosk philosophy
UC Irvine edition.
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Letters of recommendation are essential…
…even if some people write useless letters, as they do. But the arguments here are not sensible (for example, "prestige bias" is a canard, as we've noted before). As a senior philosopher elsewhere wrote to me last week: In many years on hiring committees I have found these letters extremely valuable in distinguishing the A…
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G.A. Cohen does Gilbert Ryle
Being reminded this morning of G.A. Cohen's brilliant impersonations and comedy routines, I happened upon one I had not see before, which is a gem:
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Michigan drops its “Bias Response Team” after appeals court rules against the University
A brief report from IHE, with links. (Earlier coverage.)
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Marxian economist/philosopher John Roemer (Yale) interviewed
Here. This gives a nice overview of the different dimensions of his work over time. UPDATE: And let's not forget G.A. Cohen's "Marxist Boxing Match: Roemer v. Habermas." Don't miss what referee Leon Trotsky tells the fighters. (Thanks to Jeff Ketland for the pointer.)
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Philosopher Susan Schneider (UConn) on the BBC…
…talking about our robot overlords of the future! Since they will have advanced intelligence, they will presumably be Marxists, so this could work out well!
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“Are you a moral grandstander?”
Some folks in philosophy should definitely read this (you know who you are!).
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While Heidegger joined the Nazis, the Vienna Circle…
…opposed them. Unfortunately, the evidence of their experience suggests that logic, scientific standards, and rigor were not adequate to the challenges they faced.
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“Lock him up!”
He actually deserves to be locked up for his life of crime; this is from last night's World Series baseball game, where the monster-child appeared:
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