Philosophy in the News
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Gordon Barnes talks about applied epistemology…
…with Spencer Case.
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Discussion of philosophical topics and philosophers over time
Neat charts from Eric Schwitzgebel. Comments are open over there.
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No wonder you’re paranoid, everyone really is out to get you
Philosopher Alex Byrne recounts a curious experience with a book review that was rejected by NDPR. I’ve been on the editorial board of NDPR from the beginning (25 yeras now!), and I think the current editor, Chris Shields, has done an admirable job. But Shields and his precedecessors almost never overrode the recommendations of members…
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Controversy about Nathan Cofnas, once again
Previously the controversy was at Cambridge, now Dr. Cofnas has been appointed as a post-doc at the University of Ghent in Belgium, and perhaps predictably, some faculty and students are calling for his appointment to be terminated because of his racist views. This would, of course, be a serious violation of academic freedom: he was…
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Indemnification clauses in book contracts?
Philosopher Mark Navin writes: I just walked away from a book contract with Routledge over an indemnity clause. What do you think is going on with these clauses? Routledge recently approached me to write a second edition of my vaccine ethics book (Values and Vaccine Refusal). The contract contained an indemnity clause (Clause 14.2, pasted…
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“The philosopher who learned to bust unions”
Ann Cudd, President of Portland State University, once again.
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Reality is *not* a “controlled hallucination”
Philosopher Evan Thompson comments on a recent misconceived idea of some neuroscientists.
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Thomasson redux
A propos this, here’s a much friendlier (and more informative) review by Huw Price, a “fellow traveller,” as it were.
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Philosopher Ann Cudd, now Portland State President, has written extensively on oppression…
…but it’s not had any effect on her praxis! This is a devastating analysis by a Portland State professor, that brings Cudd’s philosophical work to bear on how she has treated faculty and programs at PSU. An excerpt: In Analyzing Oppression, Cudd is clear that the most dangerous form of oppression operates through economic forces that…
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Ali Larijani, Kant scholar?
Jim Holt and Moti Gorin have both pointed out to me that the Wikipedia page for Ali Larijani (one of the most powerful political figures in Iran, not yet killed) reports that he has a Ph.D. in “Western Philosophy” and that he has published books on Kant, Saul Kripke, and David Lewis. There is an…
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Narrative and moral identity
Philosopher Marya Schechtman discusses.
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A searchable index of philosophy book reviews
This is an amazing resource, from philosopher Matt Zwolinski. As he explains: “It currently covers nearly 80,000 reviews across 170+ journals, going back to the 1890s. It includes book symposia and a small but growing selection of reviews in non-academic sources (e.g. Times Literary Supplement, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The…
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Being “rational” under conditions of uncertainty
Philosopher Adam Elga discusses at Preposterous Universe with Sean Carroll.
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Philosophy of AI explained…
…at the “Explaining AI” podcast, relying on a paper by two philosophers (which is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies).
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Habermas on the “Axial age”
I was intrigued by this review by Andrew Buchwalter of volume 3 of Habermas’s huge history of philosophy. In particular, I was struck by Professor Buchwalter’s description of Habermas’s discussion of the so-called “Axial Age”: Occurring in the period between 800 and 200 BCE, the Axial Age reflected the ascendance of the major world religions,…
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