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“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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“Perfect valour consists of doing without witnesses what you would be capable of doing in front of the whole world.” - François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
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“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.” — J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia
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“Only the assumption that one day the various taxonomies put together by, for example, Chomsky, Piaget, Levi-Strauss, Marx, and Freud will all flow together and spell out one great Universal Language of Nature — an assumption sometimes attributed to structuralism — would suggest that cognitive psychology had epistemological import. But that suggestion would still be as misguided as the suggestion that, since we may predict everything by knowing enough about matter in motion, a completed neurophysiology will help us demonstrate Galileo’s superiority to his contemporaries. The gap between explaining ourselves and justifying ourselves is just as great whether a programming language or a hardware language is used in the explanations.” - Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
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“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.” — Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
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“It is the utter simplicity of life which defeats man. He has turned the earth inside out in a frantic effort to attain security, to arrive at wisdom. But he has never really attached himself to the earth, never sufficiently venerated it. He has tried to subjugate when he has had only to observe and enjoy.” — Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
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“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“The life and power of poetry consist in its ability to step out of itself, tear off a fragment of religion, and then return into itself and absorb it. So too with philosophy.” - Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
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“Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.” — C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
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“To harm a person is to receive something from him. What? What have we gained (and what will have to be repaid) when we have done harm? We have gained in importance. We have expanded. We have filled an emptiness in ourselves by creating one in somebody else.” - Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
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2024.09.10 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Laura D’Olimpio, The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum, Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education, 2024, 184pp., $120.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781350120907. Reviewed by Iris Vidmar Jovanović, University of Rijeka The rationale of Laura D’Olimpio’s manifesto (as she calls it) for […]
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2024.09.9 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Chase Wrenn, The True and the Good: A Strong Virtue Theory of the Value of Truth, Oxford University Press, 2023, 187pp., $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192869500. Reviewed by Timothy Perrine, Rutgers University Chase Wrenn’s book is dedicated to describing and resolving a certain puzzle about […]
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[Revised entry by Bryan Van Norden on September 27, 2024. Changes to: Bibliography] Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. Often referred to as the “Second Sage” of Confucianism (meaning second in importance only to Confucius himself), Mencius is best known for his claim that “human nature is good.” He has attracted interest in […]
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Bits, cheeky, clever, gutted: Ben Yagoda explains the British invasion of American English
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[Revised entry by Carl Huffman on September 27, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Philolaus of Croton, in southern Italy, was a Greek philosopher/scientist, who lived from ca. 470 to ca. 385 BC and was thus a contemporary of Socrates. He is one of the three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition, born a […]
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A New Yorker staff writer takes a hard look at New York’s rave scene, and develops a cynicism — not of the scene — but of our literary culture
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Typically, as the number of species in competition goes up, the rate of forming new species goes down. The hominin tribe is an exception
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Vasilis Grollios is currently an independent postdoctoral researcher and author of the new book, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory: A study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Grollios discusses how this book fits in with his larger research project in Marxist critical theory, his reason for including […]
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Asset management giants like Blackrock have accrued wealth larger than some nations by making passive investment cheap. But, writes A.G., their size and influence encourages anti-competitive behaviour and prioritises short-term profits over broader economic well-being. This has led to wage stagnation and increased wealth concentration among the richest, risking an ever-decreasing pool of potential investors. We need to discover alternative approaches like a democratically controlled public asset manager which could achieve more equitable and sustainable prosperity. Our lives have become increasingly intertwined with global financial markets. If you have a retirement plan or a personal investment account, chances are your savings are being managed by asset management companies. By managing investments on our behalf, asset management firms not only command the flow of global capital, but they also exert control over the companies where we work, o...
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Frederic Jameson – philosopher, Marxist, academic celebrity, literary critic – is dead. He was 90... A.O. Scott... Terry Eagleton... Benjamin Kunkel... The Nation... WaPo...
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[Revised entry by Jouko Väänänen on August 31, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Second-order logic has a subtle role in the philosophy of mathematics. It is stronger than first order logic in that it incorporates “for all properties” into the syntax, while first order logic can only say “for all elements”. At the same […]
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[Revised entry by Neal Tognazzini and D. Justin Coates on August 30, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Blame is a common reaction to something of negative normative significance about someone or their behavior. A paradigm case, perhaps, would be when one person wrongs another, and the latter responds with resentment and a verbal rebuke, […]
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[Revised entry by Hans Hansen on August 30, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Two competing conceptions of fallacies are that they are false but popular beliefs and that they are deceptively bad arguments. These we may distinguish as the belief and argument conceptions of fallacies. Academic writers who have given the most attention to […]
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2024.08.13 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Luis Villoro, La Razón Disruptiva, Antología compilada por Guillermo Hurtado, Penguin Random House, 2023, 412pp., $16.50 (pbk), ISBN 9786073834629. Reviewed by Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University Luis Villoro (1922–2014) is a central figure in Mexican philosophy and is read across the Spanish-speaking world. […]
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2024.08.14 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Reviewed by Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge The revival of interest in Cicero’s philosophical writings continues to demonstrate its vigour. Hot on the heels of The Cambridge Companion to Cicero’s Philosophy (2022) have come two collective volumes offering treatments of his final philosophical composition, De […]
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This is a reply to the article Nițoaia, P. (2024, July 12). Embracing Kindness. The Moral Argument for Veganism, which appeared here on Daily Philosophy. We recommend looking at the original article for context first:
Petrică Nițoaia: Embracing Kindness
Ethical arguments against veganism are examined and refuted.
Which animals, or group of animals, have the best lives? Certainly not those victims of factory style meat production. This whole business should be ended.
But think of the animals in the relative freedom of a humane farm, and then think of wild animals, and then companion animals or, as we used to say, pets. Best lives? I say it’s those in the first group. There are farms, and farmers – there are many where I live – geared to taking animal welfare seriously; these animals live in ample space, with other animals of their kind, they’re given appropriate food, shelter, health care. Their quality of life is generally high. The quantity of life is much less than it might be, of course, but they typically live longer, and much easier than wild animals. Watch almost any nature programme and you’ll be glad you’re not a wild animal. Companion animals live the longest lives, but they’re often too long, as their owners, for selfish reasons, strive to keep them alive even when their best days are gone. Their food is often inappropriate, and they’re too often left alone. Maybe it can be ok to be a pet, but you’d want to choose your owner.
What should we think about pain? I think it’s always bad, bad in itself, or intrinsically, even if it’s sometimes useful, or good instrumentally. And so of course, I think it’s always bad for animals, and that we should want animals – all animals – to have less pain, and a high quality of life. But I think also, and controversially – and I argued this in ‘Against Veganism’– that a sudden and painless death isn’t bad for animals. So I don’t think it’s bad for farm animals that they have relatively short lives, and are killed, painlessly, before their time. Petrică Nițoaia, in discussing my paper, unsurprisingly takes issue with this, claiming that even if I’m right to say that animals don’t have an express desire to live, still it can be, and very often is, in their interests to live, and so against their interests, and so bad for them, to die. Even if most animals, unlike us, lack self-consciousness they all, like us, have a strong survival instinct.
This doesn’t do it for me. Trees have a strong survival instinct, searching out water with their roots, fighting disease, growing protective tissue over wounds. We might say that death is bad for living things – premature death anyway – without thinking it’s bad, or a bad thing, that they die. We might think, …
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On the surface, Facebook is about as far removed from the Catholic Church as physically possible. But, perhaps by thinking of religions like platform businesses, we can get to the heart of how religions work, why they do what they do, and that the adage ‘if the product is free, you’re the product’ is just as applicable to religions as it is to YouTube. Paul Seabright argues that thinking of religions like an economist can discover valuable new insights into The Divine Economy. Religion seems like an odd subject for the economist. After all, religion deals with gods and demons, the passage of the mortal soul and the moral laws that construct our reality. But why is any one religion the way it is? Why do they have rituals? And how do they inspire loyalty? One way to approach these qu...
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Grades at American universities are so inflated they’ve become meaningless. Time to do away with them altogether
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Christopher Isherwood was not keen to dine with Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne – “Mrs. Misery and Mr. Know-All”
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Monstrous motherhood. What can we learn from women who’ve abandoned their children?
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46(1). 2024. Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle), dir. par Fabien Simon. Paris: SHESL. 256 p. ISSN 0750-8069 Publisher’s webpageOpen access Hommage Irène Rosier-CatachC. H. J. M. Kneepkens (1944-2023) Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle)Dossier thématique dirigé par Fabien Simon Fabien SimonPrésentation Capucine Boidin, Cândida Barros & Ruth Monserrat« Tupi or […]
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46(1). 2024. Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle), dir. par Fabien Simon. Paris: SHESL. 256 p. ISSN 0750-8069 Publisher’s webpageOpen access Hommage Irène Rosier-CatachC. H. J. M. Kneepkens (1944-2023) Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle)Dossier thématique dirigé par Fabien Simon Fabien SimonPrésentation Capucine Boidin, Cândida Barros & Ruth Monserrat« Tupi or […]
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46(1). 2024. Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle), dir. par Fabien Simon. Paris: SHESL. 256 p. ISSN 0750-8069 Publisher’s webpageOpen access Hommage Irène Rosier-CatachC. H. J. M. Kneepkens (1944-2023) Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle)Dossier thématique dirigé par Fabien Simon Fabien SimonPrésentation Capucine Boidin, Cândida Barros & Ruth Monserrat« Tupi or […]
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“There would not have been thought to be a problem about the nature of reason had our race confined itself to pointing out particular states of affairs — warning of cliffs and rain, celebrating individual births and deaths. But poetry speaks of man, birth, and death as such, and mathematics prides itself on overlooking individual Read More
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46(1). 2024. Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle), dir. par Fabien Simon. Paris: SHESL. 256 p. ISSN 0750-8069 Publisher’s webpageOpen access Hommage Irène Rosier-CatachC. H. J. M. Kneepkens (1944-2023) Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle)Dossier thématique dirigé par Fabien Simon Fabien SimonPrésentation Capucine Boidin, Cândida Barros & Ruth Monserrat« Tupi or […]
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46(1). 2024. Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle), dir. par Fabien Simon. Paris: SHESL. 256 p. ISSN 0750-8069 Publisher’s webpageOpen access Hommage Irène Rosier-CatachC. H. J. M. Kneepkens (1944-2023) Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs (XVIe-XIXe siècle)Dossier thématique dirigé par Fabien Simon Fabien SimonPrésentation Capucine Boidin, Cândida Barros & Ruth Monserrat« Tupi or […]
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Entropy Entropy is one of the most interesting concepts in physics. It has sometimes been defined as the amount of disorder in a system or our lack of knowledge of the system. It is remarkable that entropy, a technical concept ubiquitous in physics equations, can be described in such non-scientific ways. Because of its high […]
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Entropy Entropy is one of the most interesting concepts in physics. It has sometimes been defined as the amount of disorder in a system or our lack of knowledge of the system. It is remarkable that entropy, a technical concept ubiquitous in physics equations, can be described in such non-scientific ways. Because of its high […]
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Despite the difficulty in finding proper Chinese words for Voegelin’s terminology, the reception of Voegelin’s works, including translations and research, has rapidly increased in the last two decades. This essay serves as a brief analysis of the reception of Voegelin in the Sinophone world. It will mainly focus on the history, literature, and four representative…
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philosophybits: “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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You don’t often see thinkers dedicating more than passing remarks against veganism. After all, being kind to animals is not a controversial attitude. On moral and practical grounds, dismissing veganism is not easy. That is why I appreciate Christopher Belshaw’s article Against Veganism, which offers a more thoughtful list of arguments. They are more serious Read More
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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“Love and light have not availed against vitriol. What a horror would have seized us at the thought, once upon a time! That short phrase can annul all Schiller. We have shut our eyes and stopped our ears, we have built huge philosophic systems to shield us from this tiny thought. And now — now Read More
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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The first stanza of William Butler Yeats’ much quoted poem, “The Second Coming,” contains the words: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This declarative can be applied to democracy as an interrogative: can democracy hold in tension “liberty and justice for […]
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Heat-trodden hardness stinging into foot, Labouring under sun’s skin-parching glare, Lumbering her water-jug along rut, Carved by those who would despise and stare. Another outcast standing by, a Jew, Looks into her and begins to speak, He dares to read her soul right through, A fortress of sorrows begins to creak. Hard tar-lumps of hostility…
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In honour of the 167 who died in the Occidental (Oxy) Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in the North Sea, 6th – 7th July 1988, British, American, French and others. The writer had worked on an adjacent platform, Claymore. 1 ‘How long ya thinkin’ of keepin’ yer hands In yer pockets, pal?’ That would be…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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Due to the quick ascension of ChatGPT in the western world, it must be asked, what is the purpose of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? What is the thinking behind its existence, thought by companies like OpenAI? What cause is linked to A.I.’s problem-solving capacity to make it necessary for society’s uncritical and unscrupulous acceptance? If A.I.…
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When Edmund Burke penned his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France, he accosted the militant excesses of the revolutionaries for bringing death and destruction to a formerly beautiful (though imperfect) society. The Jacobin terror wrought ruins, carcasses, and a zealous press advancing its cause in its wake. Burke called the revolution the most astonishing…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Cheap perfume masking scent of cheaper men, Towards my redemption, I approach, Braving hypocrisy’s white-washed den, Its scorn and lust curdle as reproach, I enter, eyes of flint cut judgement’s mark, But I kneel down and set upon my task, Of adoration, though Pharisees bark, And snicker, at the blessings from my flask. He defends…
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Le Corbusier, or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, was born on October 6, 1887 in a densely populated town—La Chaux-de-Fonds—in the mountainous region of Swiss Jura. The town’s location and proximity to France allowed Le Corbusier the opportunity to experience Swiss and French class, including its architectural character and personality. Le Chaux-de-Fonds was, additionally, an industrial town, and…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer of the conservative disposition in the United States. Originally sent to study the American prison system, which he did, he also had a private desire to experience the…
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The wretch just doesn’t see I’m right for him, Why won’t he just magic stone into bread? The ways of his Dad need a little trim, My own path offers an easier tread. Hop off the temple, give people a show And those angels something to do I said Would he listen? Well of course…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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The strong, the rich, the proud, and the empowered can batter down my door, but they will find me unalarmed and leave me still endowered with the security I have from my first husband: I am poor. Could Caesar have defrauded grass of dew — I might have feared his tread, and simpered courtesy. The…
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A. Everything comes round again be it good or ill; changes come only when old returns, the cycle to fulfill. Again! I fear that everything —ill and not just good—will be when yet again the cycle changes. Fulfill me, then, Time’s cycle, before I am too old. B. What’s new for me is old for…
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The wilderness is an unworldly place, In the dust-pool visions dive into you And swim around your mind. Storms scourge your face And devour your soul all the way through. Locusts and wild honey, a fit diet For a prophet I suppose, still I miss Bland normal bread, in the desert quiet I strain to…
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In the sweat of an election year, in the fever of political trials and war and guess after mediocre guess, I pull into the yard and Daddy’s baling hay. My nephew shouts after the dog without an administrative thought and the goslings in the pasture ponds have grown beyond their yellow fuzz. I have bills…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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“Freedom demands that individuals resist domination as much as it calls them to oppose being the perpetrators of domination.” – Melvin Rogers I could be overplaying my hand here, but I take Rogers’ quote to reinforce my thinking regarding humanization and authenticity. My own individual freedom, I think Rogers is saying, consists not only…
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By intertwining his own experiences with broader philosophical inquiries, Nikolaj Schultz proposes a new existentialism in for the Anthropocene age. In this in depth interview, we discuss why collectivism and individualism are not mutually exclusive, how the climate crisis is bringing about new forms of philosophy and why this is leading to an existential metamorphosis. Why Read More
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So many shadows Have come Into this house. Under every dining chair Lies an architecture, A fretwork, of dusk. The edge of the phone Where it lies Is dissolved into dimness. The cup in my hand Holds an obscurity Turning on the glaze. Under my fingers Others flex and travel In motions of shade. On…
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It might seem as if since COVID swept the world, everyone has suffered a significant decrease in social interactions. Classes were disrupted, social events retired, and lives paused. In this post-COVID world, people are trying to get back to normal, and with students hanging out after classes and going to student-run clubs it seems like Read More
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philosophybits: “Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life”, Untimely Meditations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Some people are never complete and are always lacking something. Others take a long time to form themselves.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The world of books is indeed only a caricature of the real world. Both spring from the same source — but the former appears in a freer, more flexible medium. Hence all colors are sharper there — fewer shades in between — the movements more lively — the outlines hence more striking — the expression Read More
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The writer and philosopher Albert Camus was known for his existentialist essays, novels, and love of football. Every intellectually curious football fan is probably grateful for this. I know I am. In this essay, I argue that Camus’s love for football corresponds to his existentialist love for living joyfully and free. In his unfinished autobiographical Read More
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Quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis entered the intellectual scene at roughly the same time. Several quantum physicists, shocked by the apparent consequences of their work and the strange irrationality at the heart of reality, sought the aid of psychoanalysts such as Freud and Jung to help them cope with their disturbing insights. The connection between quantum Read More
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Paul Krause’s essay “Hemingway and Me” immediately caught my attention. The reason is simple: I share with the author the same emotional experience – generally negative – brought about by reading the literature of Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961). Krause recounts that there was a time when he didn’t like the author of A Farewell to…
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philosophybits: “What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Wait… but Stephen… there are no bad questions.” And there is it. Even as it has continued to happen, class after class, every time it does, I am taken aback. And, again, I am surprised by the tone: often a mixture of incredulity and insistence and it sometimes comes tinged with a bit of fervency. Read More
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philosophybits: “Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice.” — Albert Einstein, “On Academic Freedom”, Ideas and Opinions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“I have wanted to show by means of language-games the vague way in which we use ‘language’, ‘proposition’, ‘sentence’. There are many things, such as orders, which we may or may not call propositions and not only one game can be called language. Language-games are a clue to the understanding of logic.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Read More
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[Revised entry by Patrick Grim and Daniel Singer on May 13, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Computational philosophy is the use of mechanized computational techniques to instantiate, extend, and amplify philosophical research. Computational philosophy is not philosophy of computers or computational techniques; it is rather philosophy using computers and computational techniques. The idea Read More
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[Revised entry by Harald Atmanspacher on May 13, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] It is widely accepted that consciousness or, more generally, mental activity is in some way correlated to the behavior of the material brain. Since quantum theory is the most fundamental theory of matter that is currently available, it is a Read More
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[New Entry by András Kraft on May 13, 2024.] John Italos (fl. 1070s) was a prominent and controversial intellectual figure in eleventh-century Byzantium. An immigrant from Byzantine Italy, he made a stellar career in Constantinople succeeding Michael Psellos as head of the imperially sponsored school of philosophy. His dialectical method and combative temper made him Read More
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What can we learn from filler words? Wilfred M. McClay makes the case that “like” is different from “uh” and “um” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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England had five native languages; in Burgandy, trilingualism was the norm. In Medieval times, the monolingual impulse had not yet set in Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Melancholia, ennui: Call it what you want, but it’s a feeling with a long history and a surprising political power Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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philosophybits: “I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Wealth acquired by wicked deeds makes the disgrace more apparent.” – Democritus, Fragments, B218 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Impartiality is often thought of as the gold standard of rigorous and fair minded media. The idea that there are certain things on which we can all agree, and from these principles we can have ‘balanced’ and ‘non-partisan’ media, is baked deeply into many Western institutions. But this idea is a fantasy argues John Budarick. Read More
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Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the head of the Philosophy Department and Cheikh Anta Diop University’s Teachers College and the former Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Educational Systems. Dr. Ba describes himself as a Read More
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philosophybits: “It is true and always will be true that virtue is the highest wisdom.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Howard Robinson and Ralph Weir on May 6, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, wiggins.html] Many of the concepts analysed by philosophers have their origin in ordinary – or at least extra-philosophical – language. Perception, knowledge, causation, and mind are examples. But the concept of substance is a philosophical term of art. Read More
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philosophybits: “If one lived forever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Just as in Nietzsche’s day educated philistines believed in progress, the unfaltering elevation of the masses and the greatest possible happiness for the greatest possible number, so today they believe, without quite knowing it themselves, in the opposite, the revocation of 1789, the incorrigibility of human nature, the anthropological impossibility of happiness – in other Read More
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Historicism was a popular intellectual movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It made its mark in multiple academic disciplines, including economics in the guise of the Historical School. It was especially prominent in German and other continental European intellectual environments. In the present day, as this essay shall discuss, numerous insights from the…
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(Please note: This post contains my personal reflections on my own experiences within my current neighborhood, and as such I believe it is important to acknowledge my positionality. I am writing this post as a white, middle-class cis woman who lives in a primarily residential working-class neighborhood in St. Paul, MN. I cannot and do Read More
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[Revised entry by James Lennox and Charles H. Pence on May 6, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Darwinism designates a distinctive form of evolutionary explanation for the history and diversity of life on earth. Its original formulation is provided in the first edition of On the Origin of Species in 1859. This entry Read More
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philosophybits: “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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philosophybits: “He who forgets the good things he had yesterday becomes an old man today.” — Epicurus, Vatican Sayings Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Always in human life, whether war or slavery is in question, intolerable sufferings continue, as it were, by the force of their own specific gravity, and so look to the outsider as though they were easy to bear; actually, they continue because they have deprived the sufferer of the resources which might serve to extricate Read More
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Perhaps you are like me and were fortunate enough to have a savvy aunt (or uncle) to give you that one great gift out of all the Christmas presents you received over the years, that you have remembered over all the years, a gift at age twelve of a thick paperback set of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The…
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philosophybits: “Men who are governed by reason desire for themselves nothing which they do not also desire for the rest of mankind, and, consequently, are just, faithful, and honorable in their conduct.” — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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philosophybits: “It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self — never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our Read More
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Is abortion ethical? Judith Jarvis Thomson created one of the most well-known thought experiments in modern ethics. In her 1971 paper “A Defense of Abortion,” she presents the thought experiment of the unconscious violinist: You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious Read More
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I am the giver and taker of lives, I tell myself as Sophie bounces into the chamber on the low gravity. “The big day tomorrow, Newton,” she says, stripping down to her bra and panties, revealing her perfect hourglass. You’ve no idea. Smiling, I usher her into the sleek, black booth but see, now, that Read More
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“The image of the Mental Eye, combined with the notion that language consists of names of the Naturally Given plus abbreviations for instrumentalistic criteria for detecting the presence of all entities not Naturally Given, produces skepticism.” – Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“No matter how esoteric an artist you are, you’re still playing for an audience. If you only play to 10 people, then, maybe you’re a high artist” – George Lucas “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the…
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philosophybits: “Dispose yourself to embrace the truth, wherever it is found.” — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity; for this reason, he has integrity. The person of inferior integrity never loses sight of his integrity; for this reason, he lacks integrity.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Mair tr. (Ch 38) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Valentin Goranko and Antje Rumberg on May 3, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, 1st-order-relational.html, axiomatic-ltl.html, burgess-xu.html, interdefine-hs.html, pbtl.html] Broadly construed, Temporal Logic covers all formal approaches to representing and reasoning about time and temporal information. More narrowly, it usually refers to the modal-logic style approach introduced by Arthur Prior in the Read More
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philosophybits: “A person who shows rashness, obstinacy, self-conceit — who cannot live within moderate means — who cannot restrain himself from hurtful indulgences — who pursues animal pleasures at the expense of those of feeling and intellect — must expect to be lowered in the opinion of others, and to have a less share of Read More
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Salomo Friedlaender with his son Heinz Ludwig and his wife Marie Luise (Image has been AI-enhanced). Who isn’t eager to learn more about a philosopher who relished describing himself as a synthesis of Chaplin and Kant? About the author of a work on Kant used in 1945 by U.S. military intelligence to train 500 German prisoners Read More
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“I am well aware that as a human being I am very far from being a paradigm; if anything, I am a sample human being. With a fair degree of accuracy, I give the temperature of every mood and passion, and when I am generating my own inwardness, I understand these words: homo sum, nil Read More
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The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate but Einstein’s theory of General Relativity and our knowledge of particle physics predict that this shouldn’t be happening. Most cosmologists pin their hopes on Dark Energy to solve the problem. But, as Claudia de Rham argues, Einstein’s theory of gravity is incorrect over cosmic scales, her new Read More
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The political landscape of Ancient Greece during the period when Aeschylus penned Prometheus Bound was complex and tumultuous. It was marked by significant social upheaval, intellectual ferment, and the emergence of democratic principles that would eventually shape Western political thought. Aeschylus lived through a period of remarkable political evolution in Athens. The early 5th century…
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philosophybits: “When faced with people’s bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can.” Read More
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“It oppresses a refined soul to know that anyone is under an obligation, a coarse one to be under an obligation to anyone.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 330 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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philosophybits: “It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature’s productions, either for beauty or value.” — David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Gordon Graham on April 29, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Philosophical debate in 19th century Scotland was very vigorous, its agenda being set in large part by the impact of Kant and German Idealism on the philosophical tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment. The principal figures are Thomas Brown, Sir William Hamilton, Read More
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“The real philosopher has only one plan of action: virtue and prudence; for the only good and bad fortune lie in prudence or rashness.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The metaphysical view that intrinsically normative entities or properties exist must be supported by our confidence that we really do have obligations. It is because we are confident that obligation is real that we are prepared to believe in the existence of some sort of objective values. But for that very reason the appeal to Read More
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There have been many Shakespeare scholars, critics, and admirers throughout history. Such undying popularity, and engagement, is a testament to the profound and timeless nature of Shakespeare’s plays and their articulation in a language defined not only by lucid complexity, but one that is apt to attract and overawe even those who fail to understand…
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In 2020, the University of Edinburgh renamed what was then called Hume Tower, removing the name of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on the grounds that Hume supported slavery and was a racist. Recently, David Ashton and Peter Hutton have written two pieces (here and here, and see also the post on this Read More
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philosophybits: “The thoughts of wise men enrich their possessors with virtue.” — Socrates, in Xenophon’s Memorabilia Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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thirdity: “If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.” — Read More
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“Shower [a man] with all earthly blessings, drown him in happiness totally up to his head, so much so that only little bubbles leap up to the surface of this happiness, as they do on water; give him such economical satisfaction that he would have nothing at all more to do than to sleep, to Read More
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Never have the father, son, and holy ghost of letters been so split by heretics as in the holy trinity, maybe the holiest of the Western literary trinity—of William Shakespeare and his works, his audience, and his life. In most publications of these heretics, these sour-puss skeptics, so despised by Academia, we will also find…
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Miyamoto Musashi. A samurai turned Buddhist monk In the year 1700 Nabeshima Mitsushige, daimyo (lord) of the Saga domain, passed away. Yamamoto Jōchō, one of his samurai retainers, claims to have intuitively sensed his impending doom. From Kyoto, he rushed home: just in time to witness Mitsushige’s final moments. The death of the daimyo marked Read More
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“Since it lacks physical form, the mind can never be harmed by anything, but because it clings to the body it is oppressed by the body’s suffering.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (6:52) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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I have always loved Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ever since I first read it in my high school drama class. Perhaps I was drawn to it initially because it is considerably shorter and more easily understood than many of his other works; perhaps it was the magical and other-worldly nature of the tale that…
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Job List: Europe Name of institution: FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Town: Erlangen Country: Germany Job Description: PostDoc at https://www.pair.fau.eu on philosophy of AI Originally appeared on Jobs In Philosophy Read More
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philosophybits: “Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Christian Tornau on April 26, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Augustine of Hippo was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence. He is a saint of the Catholic Church, and his authority in theological matters was universally accepted in Read More
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philosophybits: “The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfill the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.” — Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn’t pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder Read More
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From populist politics to debates over vaccines and gender, ours is an age of polarisation. How can we debate productively in cases of deep disagreement? Wittgenstein’s account of balancing certainty about the rightness of our beliefs with intellectual humility provides the key, argues Drew Douglas Johnson. We can achieve this balance by recognising that our Read More
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From populist politics to debates over vaccines and gender, ours is an age of polarisation. How can we debate productively in cases of deep disagreement? Wittgenstein’s account of balancing certainty about the rightness of our beliefs with intellectual humility provides the key, argues Drew Douglas Johnson. We can achieve this balance by recognising that our Read More
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Return to Zero: Lear and Gloucester After raving through suffering and storm, King Lear is seared by an insight, one as dramatic as the lightning flashing in the sky. Led by the disguised Kent to the barest of shelters, a hutch or “hovel,” Lear hesitates before the entrance. To use an image from earlier in…
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Portraits by Mara Lavitt; Image courtesy of Yale University Philosophy of technology students now have a new tool at their disposal. The Luciano Floridi Bot, also known as LuFlot, is an AI-powered online tool designed to democratize access to philosophical material and foster engagement with the works of philosopher and Director of Yale’s Digital Ethics Read More
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“The most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when people use empirical knowledge against good taste, use strength against power, skill against art, and technology against science in their easiest and unthinking modes. Invariably this means allying them to those same fields in their broader, theoretical Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, Dr. Doom writes, I’m currently a senior level academic who has learned that the university might announce plans to make massive redundancies that, if approved, would force me back on the job market. What would you recommend to someone looking for a job and seeing ads Read More
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Suppose AI just published in the Philosophical Review. What does this mean for the future of our field? Nothing. In late August 2022, a generative AI called ‘Midjourney’ won an art competition. Furor rapidly spread with many people left wondering what this means for artists. If AI can create art cheaper and quicker than artists, Read More
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“The colonial regime owes its legitimacy to force and at no time does it ever endeavor to cover up this nature of things.” – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Socrates thought philosophy’s role was to prepare us for death. But what about the death of our loved ones? Philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the experience and meaning of grief. In this interview, Kathleen Higgins rights that wrong and argues that grief has a deep connection to art, especially music, in the Read More
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Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Graz Town: Graz Country: Austria Job Description: At the Department of Philosophy at the Humanities Faculty, the University of Graz is seeking to appoint a Professor of Political Philosophy (40 hours per week; selection procedure in accordance with Section 99 (1) of the Universities Act (UG); fixed-term Read More
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March snaps like the Dragon with claws that sting. The red-shouldered hawks, male and female, ring Sky and air as they call to each other. The male, a father, and lady, mother To be, craft their nest in a hardwood V. Our day’s homework entails glassing their tree, And when March bites with jaws of…
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Job List: Americas Name of institution: Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics Town: Cambridge, MA Country: USA Job Description: The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites applications from a broad range of researchers and practitioners who will work over the course of the year on pressing issues in ethics. Faculty in Read More
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The Fordham Philosophers’ Society, commonly known on campus as “PhilSoc,” began as a typical, yet uneventful undergraduate philosophy club. The association, originally founded in 2014, consisted of roundtable and book club-esque discussions about various philosophers. The club generally pulled in, at most, a dozen undergraduates to a small classroom for weekly meetings with like-minded individuals Read More
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[Revised entry by Russell Goodman on September 12, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Read More
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, Big Ben writes: I am an early career researcher, and soon after completing my PhD, I received invites from two journals to review submissions. However, in the past one year, I have received no such invites. (although I do not have a stellar publication record, I Read More
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“The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.” – Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Last week, Israeli scientists announced that they had created a model human embryo without using sperm or eggs; are we heading for a future where procreation is an entirely technological, not biological, phenomenon? Genetics and reproduction specialist Dr Güneş Taylor explains what this means for the future of human reproduction.Brave New World-like dystopia, transhumanist pipedream, Read More
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This post is an abridged version of a paper forthcoming in a special issue of AAPT Studies in Pedagogy. That paper was co-authored by Evan Dutmer, Haley Dutmer, Blake Ziegler, and Paul Blaschko. What’s the point of studying philosophy? Is it to become an academic philosopher? Or, could it be about learning to live a Read More
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The autobiographical lecture of Eric Voegelin, in its entirety, at nearly 5 hours long, is now available on VOEGELINVIEW’s YouTube channel. VOEGELINVIEW is free to read but depends on the generosity of its readers to ensure the highest quality of cultural and intellectual commentary is given to the world. With readers and contributors across all…
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Charles Johnson is likely most well-known as a novelist, having won the National Book Award for The Middle Passage (1990) and later earning a MacArthur fellowship. To many in Philosophy, he is also known as the author of Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970, which he composed as his dissertation; Johnson earned a Master’s Read More
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“Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.” – Albert Camus, Between Hell and Reason Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Alexandra Gustafson (University of Toronto) writes in, Philosophy graduate students worldwide are invited to join the Mental Health & Disability Network! What is the Mental Health & Disability Network (MH&DN)? Now in its third year, MH&DN is a multi-university network devoted to bringing together philosophy graduate students searching for a supportive community. Hosted primarily over Read More
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“He truly loves freedom who affirms it for his fellows.” – Nikolai Berdyaev, The Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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This is the thirty-second installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. This is a guest post by Viatkina Nataliia Department of Logic and Methodology of Science, Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine contact: nviatalia@gmail.com Read More
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On March 12, 2007, Texas representative Ron Paul announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Although Paul’s attempt then, and in 2012, was unsuccessful, he began a phenomenon that radically changed American politics. Paul was an outsider who ran on an “America First” platform; it called for the reevaluation of the tremendous…
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The Seneca Effect Blog is returning! You can find it on Substack at this address: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/ After that the original location of the blog (senecaeffect.com) was sabotaged by the Google search engine, I thought that it was useless to fight the powers that be. So, I closed the blog. Yet, I found that Substack Read More
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1 we discussed the basics of this field: the different kinds of disagreement and the different kinds of agents who can disagree. In Part 2, we gave an overview of the four major stances within the research field of peer disagreement. In Part 3 we applied what we learned in Parts 1 and 2 and explored the fields of religious diversity and religious disagreement. In this fourth and final part of this series, we will investigate the broader consequences of the fact that humans, at a global level, have disagreed, disagree, and will disagree on virtually any topic.
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“To be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, in the right way – that is not easy.” – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“I was spent, crushed, bewildered. But the truth was already flashing through my bewilderment. A foul truth!” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Capacity for nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but my mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has Read More
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Through technology, humans enhance their natural abilities. Consider simple examples, such as glasses or a telescope: these are technologies designed to enhance our ability to see. A car amplifies our ability to move, a telephone extends our ability to speak and listen, a firearm enhances our capacity to fight and hurt, and so on. Therefore,…
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“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Ingo Farin on September 8, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Count Hans Ludwig Paul Yorck von Wartenburg (1835 – 1897) was a German philosopher. He is primarily known for his long collaboration with his friend Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 – 1911) and for his impact on Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976) Read More
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Why study the classics? An abundance of books has appeared in recent years to answer this question. Many writers and teachers, especially those who are concerned with the decline of the humanities, have put forward a defense of the classic texts of Western civilization. The prevailing progressivism, scientism, and economism are usually the positions against…
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This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1 we discussed the basics of this field: the different kinds of disagreement and the different kinds of agents who can disagree. In Part 2, we gave an overview of the four major stances within the research field of peer disagreement. In this third part, we will apply what we have learned in Parts 1 and 2 to explore some potential ramifications and complexities of an otherwise abstract debate. Religion will be our study case.
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“Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a way of embracing happiness as if they wanted to crush and suffocate it, from jealousy: alas, they know only too well that it will flee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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I’ll let you in on a secret. I am a luddite when it comes to writing. I don’t have bibliographical management tools other than a huge master BibTex document that I began to compile in 2009 or so for my dissertation. I don’t use any AI-powered writing software, nor do I intend to do so. Read More
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“The sage does not hoard. The more he does for others, the more he has himself; the more he gives to others, the more his own bounty increases.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Mair tr. (Ch 81) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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A smattering of autumn yellow in the trees lining the quad banners waving gaily above the stadium framed by clear blue sky the marching band plays the fight song team colors, a new school year university motto, vincit omnia veritas what classes do you have? does she like me? old men talking about the rookie…
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Pandemic? What pandemic? Three months after the official US government “end” of three years of monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic that took over 1.1 million American lives, we are back to “new normal.” This is the Summer of Pink—Barbie, Taylor Swift, and the women’s soccer world playoffs. We witness divisive politics-as-usual in Washington DC and four Read More
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“A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.” – Albert Camus, The Rebel Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.” – Judith Butler, Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: A quick question: assuming one is a faculty at a top program, should they still spend time submitting (say) to APA, given that it is nontrivial to tailor a draft to the conference requirement and that maybe there isn’t much benefit in presenting Read More
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The first five posts in this series examined how hiring committees read and evaluate CVs, cover letters, research statements, teaching statements, and diversity statements. Before we move on to two other subjects that I suspect a lot of job-candidates would like to hear from search committees on–first-round interviews and on-campus visits–I’d like to wrap up our discussion of dossier Read More
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Celibacy is commonly associated with cloistered religious groups, or more recently with extremist incels. Yet in a world where ‘Yes’ to desire has dominated narratives of sexual liberation, Lisabeth During invites us to reconsider the radical potential of ‘No’ and examine how celibacy challenges norms and offers unique avenues for political dissent. “We must not think Read More
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This September marks yet another new beginning for VOEGELINVIEW. What began as an online forum and platform for occasional notes and articles on Eric Voegelin and Voegelin related news is now an internationally prominent online journal of the arts and humanities providing cultural and intellectual commentary on a variety of issues, topics, and news-related stories.…
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Stephanie Lehuger is a philosopher who defies conventions by bridging philosophy with diverse fields. With degrees in philosophy, computer science, public policy, and business, she explores the ethical, social and existential impact of new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, and fosters dialogue on life’s meaning, responsibility, and identity. Visit Stephanie’s website to discover her philosophical podcast, Read More
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“Perhaps it’s inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.” – Epictetus, Discourses Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Fabienne Pironet and Joke Spruyt on August 31, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] In contrast to the meaning the word ‘sophism’ had in ancient philosophy, ‘sophisma’ in medieval philosophy is a technical term with no pejorative connotation: a sophisma proper is a sentence (proposition) that raises a difficulty for logic or Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m on the market for the first time this fall and have the following question. When a job posting lists multiple AOSs and AOCs, how seriously should one take the AOS constraints? I’m trying to read between the lines of these posts, wondering Read More
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“The work of our race is to build the temple of science, and this science includes man and Nature. Now, truth reveals itself to all; today to Newton and Pascal, tomorrow to the herdsman in the valley and the journeyman in the shop. Each one contributes his stone to the edifice; and, his task accomplished, Read More
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It is often argued that the physics of time contradicts our experience. In response to Avshalom Elitzur, Matt Farr challenges this view by claiming that we need not fear that modern physics gets anything wrong about our subjective experience of time.Avshalom Elitzur will be speaking at the upcoming HowThelightGetsIn Festival in London, September 23rd/24th 2023 Read More
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Peter Moore, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We are all familiar with those immortal words of the Declaration of Independence, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Few of us, however, are familiar with how we got those words, those ideas, on which the American Dream turns. Peter Moore turns back the clock…
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Eddy Souffrant, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, stands among the leading professional philosophers in the United States working at the intersection of Philosophy and International Relations. His formal specializations are Applied Ethics, History of Anglo-American Social and Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of International Affairs. Read More
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[Revised entry by Brian Weatherson on August 31, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] As anyone who has flown out of a cloud knows, the boundaries of a cloud are a lot less sharp up close than they can appear on the ground. Even when it seems clearly true that there is one, sharply bounded, Read More
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“It is often said that the separation of the present reality from transcendence, so commonplace today, is pernicious in that it undermines the universe of fixed values. Because life on Earth is the only thing that exists, because it is only in this life that we can seek fulfillment, the only kind of happiness that Read More
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journals Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most quintessentially American of all American poets, wrote an entire corpus inspired by early and medieval Christian theology. Longfellow drew his literary symbolism and characters’ virtues from early Church Fathers such as St. John Chrysostom. In current discourse on his work, overshadowed by blanket patterns of domestic-sphere ideology and gender essentialism, the…
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39th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY American Political Science Association Meeting August 31-September 3, 2023 Los Angeles, CA Friends, Thank you for your continued flexibility as we navigate the many adjustments that are an inevitable part of the landing approach to our meeting. I am particularly grateful for the hard work of…
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This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1 we discussed the basics of this field: the different kinds of disagreement and the different kinds of agents who can disagree. In this second part we will explore the four main camps within the research field of peer disagreement, corresponding to four potential rational responses to a disagreement between epistemic peers.
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“Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.” – Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.” – Walter Benjamin, “The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism”, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Originally appeared on Philosophy Read More
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226 p., 156 x 234 mm, PB, ISBN: 978-2-503-60568-5 / eISBN: 978-2-503-60569-2 Series: Brepols Library of Christian Sources, vol. 9 This book contains a study and translation of the works on natural philosophy by the 13th-century thinker Peter of Ireland, who taught Thomas Aquinas at the University of Naples. Peter of Ireland (Petrus de Ybernia) Read More
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This book treats both Christian and non-Christian texts from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE, and suggests that dealing with disagreement helped philosophers define their own traditions while creating a conceptual common ground. Ancient philosophy is known for its organisation into distinct schools. But those schools were not locked into static dogmatism. Read More
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23rd Annual Conference April 4-6, 2024 Toronto Metropolitan University We are pleased to solicit essays for the 23rd annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. This year’s event is taking place in conjunction with the 5th Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy. We invite submissions on any topic Read More
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Super flumina Babylonis Hudson Burrows knows today will be the day he fixes his son, Caleb. He mulls over his plan, while in the garage, in the cool of mid-March, as he plows through his morning five-mile ride on the stationary bike he bought for his wife and son, yet only he uses. Hudson…
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“It is not the young man who is most happy, but the old man who has lived beautifully; for despite being at his very peak the young man stumbles around as if he were of many minds, whereas the old man has settled into old age as if in a harbor, secure in his gratitude Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a prospective graduate student asks: I’d appreciate some advice about applying to grad school. My main interest is epistemology. It seems like I could find good supervisors in both general and HPS departments. But I’m wondering whether getting an HPS PhD can be limiting further down Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I have some questions about the norms of contacting an author after anonymously peer reviewing their work. I recently refereed a paper that I thought was great: well-argued, interesting, and from which I learned a lot. I recommended acceptance. I’d like to talk Read More
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This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations of philosophy’s personal, institutional, and disciplinary evolution that will also help young academics and students navigate philosophy today. Tēnā koutou katoa. Greetings to all. My author name is Georgina Tuari Stewart. Read More
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Dark Souls, the hit videogame series celebrated for its complex narrative interplay between light and dark, grapples with the unexpected theme of gender representation. While the game thrives on disrupting conventional storytelling, its depiction of women remains tethered to a conventional binary. The very nature of Dark Souls’ dichotomies makes it impossible to escape the Read More
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In Hegel and Heidegger On Nature and World, Raoni Padui explains why these philosophers reject naturalism, subjective idealism, and dualism in their conjunction with nature and the world. Hegel and Heidegger are holistic thinkers of Platonic and Aristotelian thought, which alters how they view the natural world; this classical way of thinking becomes detrimental as…
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[New Entry by Pablo Lorenzano on August 21, 2023.] Philosophy of biology is a sub-discipline within philosophy of science, and it became professionalized and institutionalized in regions like the United States, Canada, and Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. In Latin America, this process began a decade later, after a long period of early history Read More
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“Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention.” – Byung-chul Han, The Burnout Society (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“In so far as it is an institution intended to achieve, for the benefit of the greatest number, the social reforms to which landed suffrage is opposed, universal suffrage is powerless; especially if it pretends to legislate or govern directly. For, until the social reforms are accomplished, the greatest number is of necessity the least Read More
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“Tolerance should be given to all religions that tolerate others, so long as their dogmas contain nothing contrary to the duties of citizenship.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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I consider it one of the great blessings of my life to have studied with Sir Roger Scruton just prior to his death. After graduating from Yale, I ventured overseas to England to study with the eminent philosopher of aesthetics, perhaps better known to a wider audience as among the handful of erudite political conservative…
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This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series of articles we will explore every major area of discussion within this research field, from its foundational concerns, to the wider philosophical consequences of disagreement for knowledge and truth, passing through the central debate on what is the most rational response to one of our peers disagreeing with us. In this first part, we will look at philosophers’ answers to two seemingly basic questions: what is disagreement? And who can disagree?
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“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.” – Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Nothing in all beneath heaven is so soft and weak as water. And yet, for conquering the hard and strong, nothing succeeds like water. And nothing can change it: weak overcoming strong, soft overcoming hard.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Hinton tr. (Ch 78) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“I regret that for external & internal reasons I can’t do philosophy, for that’s the only work that’s given me real satisfaction. No other work really bucks me up. I’m extremely busy now & my mind is kept occupied the whole time but at the end of the day I just feel tired & sad.” Read More
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These days it seems like everyone knows that we should do something about climate change, but there also seems to be a lot of inertia to take action. Until relatively recently, a common view was that governments would provide the solutions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) special report “SR15”, released in 2018, established Read More
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Few names have had more maledictions heaped on them by the pro-Islamic media than that of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. In particular, the incendiary politico has faced endless pearl-clutching and even prosecution over his position that Islam is “not a religion, but a dangerous, totalitarian ideology equal to communism and fascism.” Wilders’s…
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The mind-body problem has long fascinated thinkers in the fields of science and philosophy. It addresses the fundamental question of how the mind and body relate to each other, and whether they are separate entities or interconnected aspects of a unified whole. In this article, we embark on a fascinating exploration of the mind-body problem, Read More
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Cosmology, the study of the origin, evolution, and ultimate destiny of the universe, has captured human curiosity since ancient times. From contemplating the mysteries of the night sky to unraveling the secrets of subatomic particles, the journey of cosmology takes us on an awe-inspiring exploration of the grandeur of the universe. In this article, we Read More
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In an age of rapid technological advancement, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) presents both unprecedented opportunities and profound ethical dilemmas. As AI systems become more sophisticated and pervasive in our lives, it is critical to navigate the complex intersection of technology and morality. In this article, we explore the ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence, Read More
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“Only when we know little do we know anything. Doubt grows with knowledge.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“[Man] loves the process of achieving, but does not really like to have achieved, and that is, of course, terribly funny. In a word, mankind is a comical construction; there’s a big joke in all of this, obviously.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“There are no definitive signs by which to distinguish being asleep from being awake.” – Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Monkeys pair with monkeys, deer go out with deer, and fish play around with fish. Men claim that Maoqiang and Lady Li were beautiful; but if fish saw them, they would dive to the bottom of the stream; if birds saw them, they would fly away; and if deer saw them, they would break into Read More
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“Philosophy, unlike religion, which is rooted in the cult of religious communities, must fulfill the task of rationally improving the self-understanding of mankind through arguments alone that, according to their form, are permitted to lay fallible claim to universal acceptance.” – Jürgen Habermas, “Critique and Communication: Philosophy’s Missions”, Eurozine, 16 October 2015 Originally appeared on Read More
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As forms of intelligibility, ideas disclose thought—as questions, doors to the understanding, to awakening, to “spiritual light.” In this respect all ideas are good. Can there then be no bad ideas? How might it make sense to speak of ideas that are constitutively bad? For one thing, bad ideas would account for the possibility of…
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“As everyone judges according to his emotions what is good, what bad, what better, and what worse, it follows that men’s judgments may vary no less than their emotions.” – Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Matthew Lutz on August 11, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] ‘Moral naturalism’ is a term with a variety of meanings in ethics, but it usually refers to the version of moral realism according to which moral facts are natural facts. That is the subject of this entry. Naturalistic approaches to ethics Read More
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“So long as power alone is on one side, and knowledge and understanding alone on the other, the learned will seldom make great objects their study… and people will continue to be, as they are, mean, corrupt, and miserable.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It is the nature and intention of a constitution to prevent governing by party, by establishing a common principle that shall limit and control the power and impulse of party, and that says to all parties, thus far shalt thou go and no further. But in the absence of a constitution, men look entirely to Read More
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Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint LouisUniversity. His recent book Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics explores the work of Édouard Glissant as an ethical theorist, what Western nations owe to people around the world, and the importance of acting on our individual agency. Read More
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“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Divinity College Address”, The Spiritual Emerson Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I am a PhD student with qualms about writing a reply to a recent paper that I have found both very engaging and in many respects objectionable. The “problem” is, this paper is published in a reputable journal and penned by quite a Read More
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The first three posts in this series examined how hiring committees read and evaluate CVs, cover letters, and research statements. In today’s post, I’d like to ask search committee members to answer some or all of the following questions about teaching statements: How do you read a teaching statement? Which sorts of things in teaching statements tend to Read More
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This interview is part of a series of conversations I will have with Kathryn Sophia Belle over the coming months. The discussions will consider her academic research in greater depth, the future of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP), the obstacles Black women in philosophy continue to face, and life after academia. Jasmine Read More
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We are threatened by a creeping movement towards global fascism. But more scarily, argues cultural commentator and moral philosopher, Professor Susan Neiman, fascism is unified and the left is not. A small but growing faction of the left – the woke left – abandoned enlightenment ideals and replaced them with an untenable set of principles. Read More
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I stood atop the forum’s steps, where words once were spoken of truths eternal—love for wise and good existence. I walked between the stones and pillars, that once sustained steady forms of glory—virtue and holy alliance to powers salvific. In binding awe, I bowed ahead before its majesty: my ancient home. Then, I heard, the…
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Our philosophy club, The Philosophy Society at the University of Washington, formally began in 2018 under the leadership of Jason Lim, who was president of the club before me. Jason had the idea of creating an undergraduate philosophy club that would appeal to non-majors, and that inclusive attitude has informed the club, and our subsequent Read More
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“Every disordered soul is its own punishment.” – Augustine, Confessions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The more ideas have become automatic, instrumentalized, the less does anybody see in them thoughts with a meaning of their own. They are considered things, machines. Language has been reduced to just another tool in the gigantic apparatus of production in modern society.” – Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I will be teaching a large undergraduate ethics class (120 students) this Fall and have been assigned 2 TAs. The class meets on M-W-F. This is my first time teaching a class with more than 40 students and my first time having any Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Hey search committees and people on the market, tell me what you think about my hunch. I get the feeling that this year on the market is going to be worse than last term. I think this is because philosophers from Florida and Read More
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This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader Read More
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“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves Read More
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Barbie, the global sensation, has been lauded for its existential themes and treatment of patriarchy, identity, and feminism. But Stephanie Garcia challenges the applause. Looking at the film through the lens of Simone De Beauvoir she argues that the film falls short of an existential masterpiece. “Do you guys ever think about dying?” A single line Read More
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Tributes to a colleague most often appear posthumously. Typically, they emphasize the individual’s publications, departmental contributions, or influence on doctoral advisees. Rarely mentioned, however, is the impact on undergraduates. We should do more to recognize those who have excelled in teaching, and I want to salute a paragon who is about to celebrate his 90th Read More
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Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin are two of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century. With similar background and stories (both Germans who fled from Nazism and established themselves in America), they differ on their account of the regime that made them immigrate. Their debate, however brief, can enlighten us not only about that…
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“In the haste of daily journalism, a lot can happen that’s directed at the reader’s jaded senses.” – Hans Blumenberg, “The Iceberg of Fatalism” When the news broke that a submersible owned by OceanGate Expeditions had advanced into eternal silence, no one turned to philosopher Hans Read More
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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle, in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by David Cunning on August 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Descartes sometimes speaks of things that have possible existence, in addition to speaking of things as having actual existence. He also speaks of eternal and necessary truths that are the product of God’s free and wholly unconstrained activity. One of Read More
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[Revised entry by Bas van der Vossen on August 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Libertarianism is a family of views in political philosophy. Libertarians take individual freedom as the paramount political value and understand coercion to be the antithesis of that freedom. While people can be justifiably be forced to do certain things Read More
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“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity… And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by C.A.J. Coady on August 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Should political leaders violate the deepest constraints of morality in order to achieve great goods or avoid disasters for their communities? This question poses what has become known amongst philosophers as the problem of dirty hands. There are many different strands Read More
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“It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.” – Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Is it advisable to make reference to or directly quote student evaluations in a statement of teaching? I have comments from student evaluations that directly support various points I make in my teaching statement. But since the job I’m applying for doesn’t ask Read More
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Even amidst major releases like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Indiana Jones, the most talked about movie of the summer is a low-budget indie actioner that has broken every expectation to become one of the most successful movies of the year. The buzz surrounding Angel Studios’ low-budget investment in the Sound Of Freedom has turned a $15…
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Summer becomes fall, bringing with it preparations for the upcoming academic year; recent high-school graduates look forward to their next step, professors craft syllabi, and students prepare for their lives after academia. But, as with all times of preparation, the late heat of summer can bring about introspection. Students ask themselves not just what they Read More
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“Fear, hydra-headed fear, which is rampant in all of us, is a hang-over from lower forms of life. We are straddling two worlds, the one from which we have emerged and the one towards which we are heading. This is the deepest meaning of the word human, that we are a link, a bridge, a Read More
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Joseph Harris (2022). Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller. Oxford University Press. 304 pages. Hardcover: 73.47 USD, Kindle: 69.80 USD. Misanthropy in the Age of Reason is an important book for philosophers interested in the moral nature and condition of humankind. The term misanthrope is associated with hatefulness towards Read More
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2023.07.10 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Michael Blome-Tillmann, The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions, Oxford University Press, 2022, 256pp., $80.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198716303. Reviewed by Dan Zeman, University of Warsaw Michael Blome-Tillmann’s latest monograph, The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions, is a very clear, well-structured, informative, and original book about epistemic contextualism. Comprised Read More
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“If our science of moral laws is false, it is evident that, while desiring our own good, we are accomplishing our own evil; if it is only incomplete, it may suffice for a time for our social progress, but in the long run it will lead us into a wrong road, and will finally precipitate Read More
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By Trevor Hedberg For many of us, summer is wrapping up, and for those nearing the end of graduate school, that means job market preparations are right around the corner (or perhaps have already begun). Since another job market season is not too far away, I think it is appropriate to share a few excerpts Read More
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2023.07.9 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Christopher Gill, Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance, Oxford University Press, 2022, 365pp., $125.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198866169. Reviewed by John Sellars, Royal Holloway, University of London In this book Christopher Gill offers a robust defence of Stoic ethics. He calls Read More
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Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA and a longtime translator of the work of the French philosopher Alain Badiou. Formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and co-founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII, Badiou is known for his philosophical work on the concepts of Read More
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Montaigne’s Essays, a product of the writer’s own time spent in leisure, seeks to teach the contemporary reader to take a step back and reflect. As someone who is engaged in the project of liberal education, I have discovered for myself that leisure is increasingly difficult to attain, let alone live by. My schedule is…
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Juan Carlos Mora is a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at George Washington University, pursuing an M.A. in Philosophy and Social Policy. He obtained a B.A. in Philosophy, and his scholarship focuses on philosophy of law, political philosophy, critical theory, constitutional law, administrative law, and epistemology. He has worked in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Read More
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Job List: Europe Name of institution: Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH Town: Frankfurt am Main Country: Germany Job Description: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is one of Europe’s leading business schools, accredited by AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA. We invite applications for a faculty position as Professor of Philosophy (open rank). Originally appeared Read More
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“The end is no doubt happiness, but views of happiness differ.” – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Life is given to me only once, and never will be again — I don’t want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it’s better not to live at all.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: UK cover letters: I recently heard that these should be 3-4 pages, which goes against everything I have been told (1-1/2 pages). Who is right, if anyone? Good question – I’m not sure. What I do seem to recall hearing at some point Read More
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Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) is a unique case in the history of music: There are few other instances of a composer being considered a significant creator despite composing so little—in Duruflé’s case, just fourteen published works (one of his teachers, the admired French composer Paul Dukas, was similarly unprolific). Duruflé’s lack of productivity was not due…
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What is actually going on in the cinema is that you are sitting in a comfortable chair, in a darkened room? Let’s say you are watching a film of a young woman playing a piano. You might say, ‘I am watching a representation of a woman playing a piano’. However, in some kind of way Read More
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Fred Kroon and Alberto Voltolini on July 26, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Philosophical issues surrounding fiction have attracted increasing attention from philosophers over the past few decades. What follows is a discussion of one familiar and quite fundamental topic in this area: fictional entities (both the issue of what such Read More
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“Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no effective control.” – Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The happiness we find in becoming is possible only by annihilating the reality of “existences” and lovely appearance, and through the pessimistic destruction of illusions: so, by annihilating even the loveliest appearances, Dionysian happiness attains its height.” – Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Earlier this year the British Medical Journal tweeted asking why there has been no “constructive dialogue” about gender dysphoria. Abigail Thorn, a well-known trans woman, actor, and writer, responded saying “Probably cause ‘gender dysphoria’ was made up based on unreliable data by a bunch of cis doctors, multiple of whom have since been disgraced. We Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am a PhD student with an interest in philosophy of religion. A professor recently advised me not to publish anything with religious content unless and until I receive tenure, since (in his experience) hiring committees heavily discriminate against religious people. I have Read More
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2023.07.7 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Wayne Wu, Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action, Oxford University Press, 2023, 257pp., $80.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192866899. Reviewed by Henry Taylor, University of Birmingham This book puts forward a theory of action. It synthesises Wayne Wu’s extensive work on Read More
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I’m excited to start as the new Series Editor for the Professor Reflection Series for The Blog of the APA. The series serves as a space for professors to reflect on teaching in philosophy. I want to use this first post as a plea for professors to offer their contributions to the series. We often Read More
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I saw an old man smile, enjoying a book, And leaves died lovely deaths in autumn; A skipped rock trickled to the creek’s bottom, And a poor boy’s brother shot him. I saw an old man smile, enjoying a book, And, at dinner, a family laughed with one another, A dreamer saw himself in the…
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“The way is infinitely long, nothing of it can be subtracted, nothing can be added, and yet everyone applies his own childish yardstick to it.” – Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Jesse Alama and Johannes Korbmacher on July 25, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The (lambda)-calculus is, at heart, a simple notation for functions and application. The main ideas are applying a function to an argument and forming functions by abstraction. The syntax of basic (lambda)-calculus is quite sparse, making it an Read More
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Many years ago, a man, who was hiking along the arduous path of life’s journey to reach the high summit behind which the sun cast its bright rays, came upon a wooded area where he stopped to rest. Reclining against a tree, and having taken a brief repast, a creeping thought weaseled its way into…
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“I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.” – Bertrand Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Paolo Mancosu, Francesca Poggiolesi, and Christopher Pincock on July 21, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The philosophical analysis of mathematical explanation concerns itself with two different, although connected, areas of investigation. The first area addresses the problem of whether mathematics can play an explanatory role in the natural and social sciences. Read More
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“They appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on the nation-state for protection from violence is precisely to exchange one potential violence for Read More
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A reader writes in: I’m wondering which, if any, certifications would stand out on a CV as valuable to a search committee at a teaching-heavy institution? If there are some, what are they? I’ve seen places offering DEI certs and other pedagogy related certs, but I don’t know if the ROI is for getting one Read More
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A reader writes in, If possible, I would like to ask you and other readers to share some thoughts about the single-blind review policy (= reviewers are aware of the author’s identity but not vice versa). Recently, I noticed that one influential journal adopted such a policy. To be honest, I do not see any Read More
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Whether I would pursue graduate education was never a question for me, it was always more of a question of what subject I would pursue and why. Part of that was due to my fortunate circumstances of living in a country with easy pathways for education, and part of it was driven by my curiosity Read More
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“As a temporary condition skepticism is logical insurrection; as a system it is anarchy. Skeptical method would therefore more or less resemble a rebellious government.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The end of history endures. Not just in intellectual commentary and debate, but also in cinema. And no director has been wrestling with the implications of the end of history more than Christopher Nolan. In our age of encroaching nihilism, revolutionary discontent, and the seeming exhaustion of neoliberal capitalism, how does Nolan’s films deal with…
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Yanrui Chong was born in Jining, China, the hometown of Confucius. He is studying abroad at Seoul National University and is pursuing his M.A. in philosophy. His research focuses on the nature of rationality and the disputations between the reasons-first theory and fittingness-first theory in epistemology, metaethics, and the philosophy of normativity. What are you Read More
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“Harmonious banality can be quite useful to the philosopher; it can serve as a bright beacon for the as-yet-uncharted territories of life, art, or science. The philosopher will avoid the man and the book that the harmonious bore admires and loves; and he will at least be suspicious of any opinion that is staunchly held Read More
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Charles de Gaulle once famously proclaimed that he “always had a certain idea of France.” On a recent trip to that enchanting country, I had the chance to catch a glimpse of a different “idea of France” through the eyes of my young daughter. Upon boarding a train from Avignon to Paris, she repeatedly expressed…
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“Art is, at bottom, neither more nor less than imagination.” – R. G. Collingwood, Outlines of a Philosophy of Art Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Normal human beings are a balm to me and a torment at the same time.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Letter to Paul Engelmann (16 November 1919)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books, but although the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the Read More
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I recently rewatched the 1995 film adaptation of Sabrina with Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford (an improvement, I venture to say, on the 1954 Audrey Hepburn original). In this movie, Sabrina Fairchild rescues the hardened Linus Larrabee from his workaholic, corporate existence, teaching him to love life’s gifts with Parisian flair. A bit like a Hallmark…
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“Patriotism is the vice of nations.” – Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Noëlle McAfee, Ann Garry, Anita Superson, Heidi Grasswick, and Serene Khader on July 14, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] This entry provides an introduction to the feminist philosophy section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). Overseen by a board of feminist philosophers, this section primarily takes up feminist philosophy of Read More
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“Eternity precedes us, eternity follows us: between two infinites, of what account is one poor mortal that the century should inquire about him? Disregard then, reader, my title and my character, and attend only to my arguments.” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Hey you, expecting results without effort! So sensitive! So long-suffering! You, in the clutches of death, acting like an immortal! Hey, sufferer, you are destroying yourself! Now that you have met with the boat of human life, cross over the mighty river of suffering. Fool, there is no time to sleep! It is hard to Read More
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- The purpose here is to show that the seemingly intractable putative paradoxes involved in speaking of the ineffable – as if you are speaking about the ineffable it cannot be ineffable, indeed you cannot even say it is ineffable as you are thereby saying something about it – are based on a mistake if Read More
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Margaret Atwood is best known as the author of A Handmaid’s Tale, but she has published over forty works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, short stories, and children’s books. The Atwood stories I have read, like Oryx and Crake, take place in stark atmospheres, with characters struggling to find freedom within constricted circumstances. Her characters belong…
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Kayla Bohannon will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Alabama beginning in Fall 2023. Her primary research interests are in social philosophy and feminist philosophy, and she frequently teaches undergraduate courses in ethics and political philosophy. What would your childhood self say if someone told you that you would grow up Read More
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“Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right Read More
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“Nature’s wealth at once has its bounds and is easy to procure; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.” – Epicurus, Principal Doctrines Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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This is a revised text of a lecture given at King’s College in March 2023 The judgments of human beings can be biased; they can also be noisy. Across a wide range of settings, use of algorithms is likely to improve accuracy. I offer two related claims here. The first is that in important domains, algorithms Read More
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“The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.” – Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Antonella Mallozzi, Anand Vaidya, and Michael Wallner on July 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text] Actual facts are facts about how things are. For example, Mary actually wore her white dress to the party. Modal facts, by contrast, are facts about how things could, must, or could not have been. For example, Read More
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“Sometimes my ideas come so quickly that I feel as if my pen was being guided.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Recollections of Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees, ed. Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a postdoc writes: Something I’ve recently encountered is editors and copy editors insisting that footnote citations be moved to the main text. This offends my aesthetic sensibilities and strikes me as unduly infringing on author style: other things equal, I strongly prefer philosophy papers with main Read More
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Philosophy and Science of Risk is a new book written by Isabelle Peschard, Yann Benétreau-Dupin, and Christopher Wessels. Combining insights from a variety of disciplines, it explores a range of topics related to the concept of risk, including its social construction, its management, and the ethics surrounding it. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, the authors discuss Read More
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Does art mean anything? Let us be precise from the outset about terms. Art stands traditionally as a counterpart of nature.[1] When Shakespeare has Hamlet spell out the tension between “to be and not to be” he is inviting us to confront ourselves with the classical conflict between art and nature. “To be” stands for…
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The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with philosophers. The following is an edited excerpt from the interview with Eric Winsberg. In this interview, Eric Winsberg, British Academy Global Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University Read More
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[Revised entry by Robert Stern and Tony Cheng on July 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] As standardly conceived, transcendental arguments are taken to be distinctive in involving a certain sort of claim, namely that X is a necessary condition for the possibility of Y – where then, given that Y is the case, Read More
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“But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.” – Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of Read More
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Indiana Jones is an All-American hero. He is the embodiment of everything America dreams about itself: suave and sophisticated with an adventurous, romantic, and individualistic spirit. He also is the embodiment of good in a constant fight against evil. Plus, he’s good-looking too! Indiana Jones is the man every boy wants to become and the…
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The collection of critical essays “Torto Arado” em Dez Dobras [“Torto Arado” in Ten Folds] will be released in 2023 in Brazil by Mercado de Letras. The anthology, organized by Francisco Neto Pereira Pinto, Rosemere Ferreira da Silva, Naiane Vieira dos Reis Silva, and Luiza Helena Oliveira da Silva, is divided into four sections entitled: Read More
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“If the Way could be reported, there is no man who would not report it to his brothers. … But it cannot — and for none other than the following reason: If there is no host on the inside to receive it, it will not stay; if there is no mark on the outside to Read More
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[Revised entry by Achille Varzi on July 3, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] We think of a boundary whenever we think of an entity demarcated from its surroundings. There is a boundary (a line) separating Maryland and Pennsylvania. There is a boundary (a circle) isolating the interior of a disc from its exterior. There Read More
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“The very wish to be right, down to its subtlest form of logical reflection, is an expression of the spirit of self-preservation which philosophy is precisely concerned to break down.” – Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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As VOEGELINVIEW completes its transformation into a public journal of cultural and intellectual commentary with a focus on humanistic revival with its humanities content, the editorial staff and Eric Voegelin Society would like to thank its friends of the journal so far in 2023. Your support allows us to make important changes, plan for the…
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Two things to note about habits: one, they are very hard to break and two, a fair number of them are bad for us. Many of us have fallen into the habit of reaching for our phones throughout the day to read the news and editorials. We watch videos of congressional hearings, we listen to Read More
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“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!” – Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Proof differs from analysis. Proof establishes that something happened. Analysis shows why it happened. Proof is a mode of argument that is, by definition, complete; but the price of its completeness is that proof is always formal. Only what is already contained in the beginning is proven at the end. In analysis, however, there are Read More
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While the scientific revolution produced many benefits, the scientific perspective omits purpose and value, without which life is meaningless. With The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist makes a valuable contribution to the body of poetry, literature, psychology, and philosophy that has rebelled against scientism and sought to give a more expansive, spiritual, and humane view…
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“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.” – Montesquieu, Pensées Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“We need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding — our grasp of the world — may be gone before we get there.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (3.1) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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For George Miller: friend, mentor, and who used to remind me, “If you haven’t read it three times, you haven’t read it.” This essay will attempt to summarize Plato’s Apology and highlight some of the key points in the dialogue. It is one of my all-time favorite works of philosophy, and all my students read Read More
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2023.07.4 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Markus Gabriel, Moral Progress in Dark Times: Universal Values for the Twenty-First Century, Wieland Hoban (trans.), Polity Press, 2022, 267pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781509549481. Reviewed by Erica Lucast Stonestreet, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University Markus Gabriel’s Moral Progress in Dark Times Read More
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Today, the SAS (‘’Special Air Service’’) are as revered as they are feared, with their practices, aims, and methods shrouded in mystery. Most cannot join, and those who do enter the SAS come predominantly from the British Army’s Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines. The ordeals all SAS-hopefuls have to undergo are so extreme, that…
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“Men often act knowingly against their interest.” – David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“My soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame.” – Voltaire, Micromégas Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Eric T. Olson on June 30, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, Read More
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When ChatGPT was released to the public late last year, its impact was immediate and dramatic. In the six months since, most people have barely had time to understand what ChatGPT is, yet its core model has already been upgraded (from GPT 3.5 to GPT 4.0) and a competitor has been released (Bard, from Google). Read More
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In this episode, we talk to Mary Laughren about research into the languages of Central Australia in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the contributions of American linguist Ken Hale. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 34 Hale, Kenneth L., and Kenny Wayne Jungarrayi. 1958. Warlpiri elicitation session. Read More
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Kate Cooper, Queens of a Fallen World. Kate Cooper, one of the best classicists currently living (and former student of the eminent Peter Brown), has just published a wonderful study of Augustine’s Confessions with a twist: a focus on the four women who feature prominently in the narrative. By looking at the lives of Empress…
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Mary-kate Boyle is an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is currently interested in ethics, German idealism, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Mary-kate organizes and directs an after-school philosophy program for students of Lincoln Northwest High School. Please email her directly for her independent work in philosophy. What are you most proud of Read More
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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” – Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Real patterns and the structure of language There’s been a lot of hype recently about the emergence of technologies like ChatGPT and the effects they will have on science and society. Linguists have been especially curious about what highly successful large language models (LLMs) mean for their business. Are these models unearthing the hidden structure Read More
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The Women in Philosophy series is launching a mini-series titled “Intergenerational Practical Knowledge: Conversations with Senior Philosophers.” A goal of this mini-series is to create a space of intergenerational knowledge sharing about navigating the profession of philosophy as gender-minoritized folks. This is the first iteration of the mini-series, and Elisabeth Paquette is very happy to Read More
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Remember feeling sorry for Hal 9000 when Dave Bowman was shutting him off in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Hal was a total AI prick—spying on, sabotaging, and killing crew members. But I still felt bad for him as he drunkenly crooned Bicycle Built for Two while his digital “mind” was deconstructed. More embarrassingly, I also Read More
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“He who has a why in life can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Warning: do not attempt to drive or operate heavy machinery while listening to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade for the first time. Said composition is known to have caused feelings of extreme uplift, a dreamlike state, mild disorientation and a disassociation with the mundane. Use with caution, not to exceed ten listens per day, unless ordered by your doctor. Where to…
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, an aspiring philosopher asks: I am a prospective PhD student from the Global South. I have a BA and MA Philosophy from a the national university of my country (although virtually unknown outside). I aspire to study in the top UK and US philosophy departments became Read More
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[Revised entry by Gregory W. Dawes on June 20, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Although empiricism is often thought to be a modern doctrine, it has ancient roots, and its modern forms derive from late medieval developments. This article will begin by outlining three different forms of empiricism. It will examine the Presocratic and Read More
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Face recognition to unlock our phones, navigation apps that show traffic in real-time, digital assistants that turn on lights and lock doors in our homes, chatbots writing college-level essays—the point is clear enough: living and thriving as a human being in a world with artificial intelligence is very different from living and thriving in a Read More
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One morning you wake up and head to the kitchen, only to find someone who looks exactly like you sitting at the breakfast table chatting with your parents. You try to explain to your parents that you have been replaced, but your doppelganger insists that you are the imposter. Your doppelganger is like you in Read More
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“Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. It is its function to harmonize, refashion, and justify divergent intuitions as to the nature of things.” – Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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‘Neath evanescing sunset, dusk with evening dew perfumes a quiet pasture and cradles meadow rue. In fog-sequestered hollow, a marbled mist of blue hides darkened naves where fireflies embroider grassy pews. Threading luminescence into the waiting dusk… dispersing phosphorescence through brook-borne scents of musk, they splinter unseen atoms in wild and metered light – sparking…
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A reader writes in: My area of specialization is political philosophy and I have seen philosophers who work on and publish in analytic philosophy journals in the politics or political science departments of different universities. Do any cocooner’s have any insights on how they were able to tailor their job applications to work not just Read More
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Sam Andrews (University of Birmingham) writes in: I lead the Philosophy Journal Insight Project [pjip.carrd.co]and believe that it might be of interest to readers at the Philosophers’ Cocoon. The main resource of the project is a spreadsheet that provides a comprehensive overview of around 50 philosophy journals. It contains: 1) Standardisation of key information about journal submission; Read More
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Our pluralistic societies celebrate the arts in their open-ended diversity. We celebrate the manifold forms of expression making up the wealth of a world that has domesticated truth and reason, both God and Man, turning them both into eminently useful and thus safe means to confirm the glory of our pluralistic “ways and orders,” as…
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Barbara Fair is a social justice activist and founding member of Stop Solitary Connecticut. The Stop Solitary CT campaign is aiming to eliminate the utilization of solitary confinement in Connecticut’s jails and prisons, substituting it with humane and practical alternatives. This legislation was passed in 2021, but Governor Lamont stopped it from becoming law. The organization reintroduced the Protect Read More
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[Revised entry by Jeffrey Barrett on June 20, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Hugh Everett III proposed solving the quantum measurement problem by adopting pure wave mechanics, the theory one gets by dropping the collapse dynamics from the standard von Neumann formulation of quantum mechanics. Everett’s relative state formulation consists in pure wave mechanics Read More
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” – Albert Camus, “The Minotaur”, Lyrical and Critical Essays Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The Cartesian doubt, were it ever possible to be attained by any human creature (as it plainly is not) would be entirely incurable; and no reasoning could ever bring us to a state of assurance and conviction upon any subject.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Let’s say I’m working on topic X. I have a novel interpretation of Y, which is related to X, and I published a paper defending this interpretation of Y. In my new paper on X, I want to assume this interpretation of Y. Read More
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This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations of philosophy’s personal, institutional, and disciplinary evolution that will also help young academics and students navigate philosophy today. What passport do you have? If your passport is North American, South Korean, Read More
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One of my Neuroethics students quit smoking, using the tools of cognitive behavioral therapy. Another student aimed to regain his focus by deleting all social media for a few days (a form of ecological or scaffolded agency). To study more, even when friends ask her to go out, one student used cognitive control to maintain Read More
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“Whatever limits us we call Fate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Asking as an upcoming applicant: What are mid-ranked programs and how should we compare them? My sense is the following: 1. The current top 9 (ending with USC) plus Stanford are the best.2. Top 14-22 — from CUNY to Cornell are second-tier.3. Top Read More
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“If we pass now from physical nature to the moral world, we still find ourselves subject to the same deceptions of appearance, to the same influences of spontaneity and habit. But the distinguishing feature of this second division of our knowledge is, on the one hand, the good or the evil which we derive from Read More
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Imagine you are born to a white middle class family in the United States sometime after the civil rights movement. You do not think of yourself as holding any racist attitudes. You acknowledge the social movement was a sign of moral progress and are convinced that chattel slavery was deeply wrong. Are you responsible for Read More
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This essay explores topics discussed in Tiger Roholt’s recently published book, Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones. Imagine that you are at the DMV [sorry]. You are filling out forms to renew your long-expired driver’s license. After you complete the forms, you wait in line to submit the forms and payment. You are also Read More
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“In a repressive civilization, death itself becomes an instrument of repression. Whether death is feared as constant threat, or glorified as supreme sacrifice, or accepted as fate, the education for consent to death introduces an element of surrender into life from the beginning — surrender and submission. It stifles “utopian” efforts. The powers that be Read More
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We have begun to regulate AI or so many governments think. We have frameworks from the Turing institute and UNESCO which claim to be the guard rails for future development. But Wen Zheng argues these are paper mache, and they fail to address the dangers of AGI and future of the field. Even the AI Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, Junior writes: A top 10 generalist journal rejected a manuscript of mine on the basis of one referee report. The one referee said that they had rejected an earlier version of my manuscript elsewhere. I know that editors can have a hard time finding referees, but Read More
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The violin concerto as a form of music has endured for some 300 years and remains, alongside the piano concerto, the most popular type of concerto played in modern concert halls and committed to recording. The genre was first developed during the Baroque era, when the concerto was conceived as a tripartite structure, running about fifteen…
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[Revised entry by Titus Stahl on June 8, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Georg (Gyorgy) Lukacs (1885 – 1971) was a literary theorist and philosopher who is widely viewed as one of the founders of “Western Marxism” and as a forerunner of 20th-century critical theory. Lukacs is best known for his Theory of the Read More
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I’d love some frank opinions/advice about including Philosophy of Religion in one’s AOS. I’m in a position where I can list it, but I don’t yet have publications on the topic, so no one would likely know I do PoR if I didn’t Read More
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“My acts are irrevocable because they have no essence. If they had an essence, they would be permanent. No one could have performed them.” – Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Batchelor tr. (Ch 17) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Steven Jan is Reader in Music at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research interests lie in the fields of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music, music theory and analysis, computer-aided musicology, and the application to music of theoretical and analytical perspectives drawn from evolutionary theory. His latest book, Music in Evolution and Evolution in Read More
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In our March “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: When I submitted a paper to BJHP last Fall, the paper got rejected after receiving an initial review before being sent out for peer review. I got some helpful feedback from the initial reviewer (who isn’t the editor). I wonder if there are Read More
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The Liberal calls Silvera epic and intimate, with songs that offer us a landscape of the human heart. Hers is a tapestry carefully crafted, often woven with the fabric of mythic tales, told with tender insight and in wry, seductive tones…. Originally appeared on iai Player RSS feed Read More
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“I seem to see all the most desperate of men threatening new false denunciations.” – Boethius A TWO-CAR GARAGE, disconnected from its home. A WINDOWPANE frames a u-haul type TRAILER, a POND, and WOODS, each shrouded in darkness. Beneath the WINDOWPANE sits A CARDBOARD BOX with the word “Pics” written on it. The CARDBOARD…
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Harry Alanen completed his D.Phil. in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2022 and will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh in 2023–24, co-sponsored by the Fulbright Finland Foundation and the Ella & Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation. His research explores Aristotle’s metaphysics and natural philosophy focusing on Aristotle’s philosophy of action. What Read More
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[New Entry by Rebecca Chan on June 1, 2023.] Transformative experiences are experiences that radically change the experiencer in both an epistemic and personal way (see Paul 2014). When a person transforms epistemically, they gain knowledge of “what the experience is like” that they could not have had without the experience. For instance, falling in Read More
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“No man can be trusted with unlimited authority.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It doesn’t bother you that you weigh only x or y pounds and not three hundred. Why should it bother you that you have only x or y years to live and not more? You accept limits placed on your body. Accept those placed on your time.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (6.49) Originally appeared on Read More
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We can change the way we perceive ourselves by a simple switch in our first-person perspective, argues author Brentyn J. Ramm, following Douglas Harding and Jean-Paul Sartre. Feeling awkwardly self-conscious is something that we’ve all experienced. For many, this feeling is so prevalent as to be debilitating in social situations. This is known as morbid […]
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“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.” – Albert Camus, A Happy Death Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Animal Liberation Now releases today! I received an advance copy for review, so will share some thoughts and highlights. (It feels a bit presumptuous to “review” such a classic text—obviously you should read it, no-one needs to await my verdict in order to know that—but hopefully there’s still some value in my sharing a few Read More
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“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense Read More
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“I hope that every-day readers will excuse my paradoxes; you cannot avoid paradox if you think for yourself, and whatever you may say I would rather fall into paradox than into prejudice.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this article, we’ll take a look at a few historical figures who managed the difficult balance of being seen as both good kings and philosophers – requirements that would seem, to most of us, hard to reconcile. Marcus Aurelius… who else? This one was predictable. Let’s get him out of the way first, so Read More
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[Revised entry by Lydia Patton on May 27, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894) participated in two of the most significant developments in physics and in the philosophy of science in the 19th century: the proof that Euclidean geometry does not describe the only possible visualizable and physical space, Read More
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“The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Spirit, like flame, like freedom, like creativeness, is opposed to any social stagnation or any lifeless tradition.” – Nikolai Berdyaev, The Spirit and Reality Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Each person has an equal claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic rights and liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme for all; and in this scheme the equal political liberties, and only those liberties, are to be guaranteed their fair value.” – John Rawls, Political Liberalism Originally appeared on Philosophy Read More
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In her last series post, Katherine speaks to Ana and Justin, co-founders of a place-based liberal arts institute working to equip students to live well in an age of climate change. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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“I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them…” – Margaret Fuller, “Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838)”, The Letters of Margaret Fuller Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment… We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.” – Alfred Read More
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“When we say that one object is connected with another, we mean only that they have acquired a connection in our thought, and give rise to this inference, by which they become proofs of each other’s existence: A conclusion which is somewhat extraordinary, but which seems founded on sufficient evidence.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Read More
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In our April “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am (hopefully) going to receive tenure in the coming year. I am thinking about what I want to do with that newfound security, and one thing I want to do is be a better ally to contingent faculty at my university. There Read More
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In the world of science fiction, technology plays a significant role in shaping the imaginative landscapes that captivate audiences.[1] From spaceships and time travel to aliens and flying cars, the genre has long been fascinated with the potential of futuristic technology. What sets science fiction apart from other genres of speculative fiction is, per science…
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Over the past few years, the UK has faced its fair share of trials. Today, one of the most pressing is the pressure placed on the National Health Service (NHS). Established in 1948 and funded through taxation, the NHS’s purpose was, and remains, to improve the health and well-being of those in clinical need. Unfortunately, Read More
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“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. Then what can guide us? Only Read More
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“Customs, rites, myths, and taboo are a language. As in language, where the sounds which make up words are, taken in themselves, meaningless, so the parts of a custom or a rite or a myth (according to Lévi-Strauss) are meaningless in themselves. When analyzing the Oedipus myth, he insists that the parts of the myth Read More
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[Revised entry by Jennifer Radden on May 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Mental disorder (earlier entitled “illness” or “disease”), is ascribed to deviations from normal thoughts, reasoning, feelings, attitudes, and actions that are by their subjects, or by others, considered socially or personally dysfunctional and apt for treatment. Schizophrenia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Read More
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“Look at the great men, and the poets. Except John Stuart Mill and a couple of other positivist thinkers, who had learned fathers and virtuous mothers, none of the great men can boast of, or better, complain of, a proper upbringing. In their lives nearly always the decisive part was played by accident, accident which Read More
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“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan” (J.L. Borges) Recently, Prof. Simon Michaud of the Geological Survey of Finland published an extensive report on the status of the world’s mineral resources. The report arrives at the conclusion that the “energy transition,” intended as a switch to renewable energy, is not possible for lack of Read More
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We in the West and those societies worldwide have been disenchanted over the last century seem to be in especial need of re-enchantment and a renewed sense of wonder. Thankfully, a new book by Patrick Curry, Art and Enchantment, does precisely that. Early on Curry makes clear his intentions, “This book celebrates and defends the…
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde, De Profundis Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Luca Moretti and Tommaso Piazza on May 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, formalizations.html, notes.html, propositional-doxastic.html] Ted is on his way to the Philosophy Department, early in the freezing morning. Although he doesn’t know how cold it is, Ted conjectures that the temperature must be below 0dC. Out of curiosity, he Read More
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“To be sparing of speech is natural. A whirlwind does not last the whole morning, a downpour does not last the whole day. Who causes them? If even heaven and earth cannot cause them to persist, how much less can human beings?” – Laozi, Daodejing, Mair tr. (Ch 23) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
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We thought those old cars could never die smiles grimly given tobacco juice brown and bitter curses drawled under the breath the foundation of things. –broken crankshaft, cracked engine block rusted out rad and shot carb– like a wind-up alarm clock all the innards rattling teasingly full of promise, familiar, and useless. Charger, Mustang, Cutlass,…
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[Revised entry by James Woodward on May 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Manipulability theories of causation, according to which causes are to be regarded as handles or devices for manipulating effects, have considerable intuitive appeal and are popular among many scientists and statisticians. This article surveys several prominent versions of such theories Read More
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[New Entry by David Meißner on May 6, 2023.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by David Meisner replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] The Cratylus is the only Platonic dialogue devoted… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“To the wise man every land is to be travelled; for the whole world is the native land of the good soul.” – Democritus, Fragments, B247 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Jungsuk Lee is a Ph.D. student at UCLA, whose research focuses on ancient Greek philosophy and ethics. Especially, Aristotle’s and Neo-Aristotelian ethics. He is currently working on a dissertation that explores the relationship between the rational and the non-rational part of the soul in Aristotle. What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? Rather strangely, Read More
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“The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, as two radically different kinds of substance, will hardly find defenders today. Rejecting this, we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.” – Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Architecture of Theories”, The Essential Peirce, vol 1 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Mark J. Thomas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central College (Pella, IA). His research interests include the metaphysics of German idealism, aesthetics, and the epistemology of authority. His first book Freedom and Ground: A Study of Schelling’s Treatise on Freedom explores the historical context of F. W. J. Schelling’s work on human freedom and Read More
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Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing our world today, and it has far-reaching consequences for both the environment and the economy. While most of the world population is adversely affected by climate change, some industries in some countries end up benefiting from the warming climate—a complexity often ignored in climate justice. Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m between a grad program and a job, in a post-doc. In my grad program, I had great mentorship and guidance; in my post-doc, I have neither. I feel very adrift and mostly alone. (This may echo what others say about jobs that Read More
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I’m old enough to remember when James Cameron’s Avatar was a surprisingly controversial topic of discussion. My Evangelical Tea-Party supporting family regarded the film with relative disdain, ignoring it in theaters and disregarding its knee-jerk, manipulative form of liberal white guilt. To this day, I still meet conservative film buffs who brag that they’ve never…
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Many times, Italy was a political laboratory that influenced the rest of the world. Just think of Mussolini and, more recently, how a government led by an obscure bureaucrat named Giuseppe Conte started the trend of nationwide lockdowns, then adopted everywhere in the world. Italy may be a backwater country, but it is a Read More
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[Revised entry by Raja Halwani on May 5, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Sex has received little attention in the history of western philosophy, and what it did receive was not good: Plato denigrated it, arguing that it should lead to something higher or better (Phaedrus, Symposium), Aristotle barely mentioned it, and Christian philosophers Read More
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“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Peter van Inwagen, Meghan Sullivan, and Sara Bernstein on May 4, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] It is not easy to say what metaphysics is. Ancient and Medieval philosophers might have said that metaphysics was, like chemistry or astrology, to be defined by its subject-matter: metaphysics was the “science” that studied Read More
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“Books, like conversation, rarely give us any precise ideas: nothing is so common as to read and converse unprofitably. We must here repeat what Locke has so strongly urged — define your terms.” – Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Besides all its other good qualities, the good, the truly great and noble, has the quality of not allowing the observer to be indifferent. It elicits a pledge as it were, from the person who has once caught a vision of it. However deep that person sinks, he never actually forgets it completely.” – Søren Read More
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A history of philosophy in its most famous quotes. Today: Baruch Spinoza: “The eternal and infinite being we call ‘God’ or ‘Nature’ necessarily acts as it does.” But what does this even mean? Baruch Spinoza on How We Are All God “The eternal and infinite being we call ‘God’ or ‘Nature’ necessarily acts as it Read More
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Associating culture with humans is a mistake. Studying bees has shown us that culture is more widespread than we thought, flowing through humans and nonhuman animals. While culture may be a lot simpler than we thought, the power culture has given humans is one that could be bestowed on A.I. systems, with possibly apocalyptic consequences, Read More
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In our April “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: When is the time to withdraw a paper from a slow publisher and look for a better venue elsewhere? I have agreed to write a paper for a collection of essays that the editors just keep pushing back further and further. I agreed Read More
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I have always loved books, and my love of literature has grown over time. Occasionally I joke with English students that my love of literature was preserved precisely because I didn’t major in English while at university and suffer the insufferable dogmatism of critical theory and politicized hermeneutics that make so many hate the great…
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There are many ways that members can make their voices heard in the APA—you can join or work with an APA committee or task force, come to a divisional business meeting, reach out to me or another member of the association staff or leadership, and participate in public discussions at divisional meetings and online. But Read More
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The development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and, indeed, precursors to AGI (things that ‘spark’ of AGI), could give rise to cognitive inflation. Cognitive inflation is analogous to monetary inflation. In the case of monetary inflation, the value of money (its purchasing power) goes down, oftentimes due to an oversupply of money. Central banks attempt Read More
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[Revised entry by Paul Snowdon and Anil Gomes on May 4, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Peter Frederick Strawson (1919 – 2006) was an important and influential philosopher of the late twentieth century. His writings range over philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of philosophy. Across these debates, Strawson Read More
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“Be content to seem what you really are.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Raise the world with language empowered by the act.” – Frantz Fanon, in Frantz Fanon, My Brother, by Joby Fanon Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“When alone, I have never known what it is to feel weary, even when I am entirely unemployed; my imagination fills up every void, and is alone sufficient to occupy me.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Distrust has become a hot topic in the North American media landscape as of late. A cursory online search brings up countless articles urgently pointing to an apparent trend of growing distrust in various public institutions (such as healthcare and policing) across the U.S. and Canada. Some lament the corrosive impact of misinformation and “fake Read More
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Since the Cuban missile crisis, the idea of all-out nuclear war in Europe has been almost unthinkable. And many Western commentators have dismissed Putin’s recent threats of nuclear blackmail as scare tactics. But we should not be so confident in our assessment argues nuclear expert Keir Lieber. If the West doesn’t tone down it’s rhetoric Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: About journal reviewing times: I heard that the reviewing process is taking longer and longer in the last fewer years. As a PhD who is eager to get papers published, I was wondering whether there are mainstream and generalist journals that are known Read More
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Divine huntress, in your chase of things wild over the mountains of Kynthos and of the world, chase for fame, gold, greatness, glory —overabundant to qualify for noble— mistakenly you took me for a Titan’s son and loaded on my shoulders a million’s worth of expectations, a globe’s fill of cumbrous dreams. At daybreak sweet…
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In the first year of my program, I enrolled in a class titled Philosophy of Mind. By this time in my studies I had yet to encounter a deep dive into the literature surrounding the philosophy of mind. The professor who taught the course also served as my school’s graduate program director. As such, the Read More
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What is utilitarianism about? In a nutshell: Utilitarianism is a moral theory that states that the morally right action maximizes happiness or benefit and minimizes pain or harm for all stakeholders. What counts is the sum of all happiness caused by the action minus the sum of all harm. Proponents of classic utilitarianism are Jeremy Read More
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“Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?” – Albert Camus, Caligula Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Jeffrey Bub on May 2, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, associated with the peculiar nonclassical correlations that are possible between separated quantum systems. Entanglement can be measured, transformed, and purified. A pair of quantum systems in an entangled state can be used as Read More
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“The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.” – John Rawls, A Theory of Justice Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this episode I chat to Miles Brundage. Miles leads the policy research team at Open AI. Unsurprisingly, we talk a lot about GPT and generative AI. Our conservation covers the risks that arise from their use, their speed of development, how they should be regulated, the harms they may cause and the opportunities they Read More
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This post is a part of the Blog’s 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The APA Central Conference session covered in this post was co-organized by the the APA’s Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers. The landscape for organizing in academia Read More
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“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they? If they could see what it would do for them, it would not be originality.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (eds. Adams, Crary, & Gruen) puts me in mind of Bastiat’s Candlestick Makers’ Petition. For any proposed change—be it the invention of electricity, or even the sun rising—there will be some in a position to complain. This is a book of such Read More
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Time is a paradoxical mystery. For example, the present moment is both infinitely short and infinitely long, at the same time! To resolve this mystery, Bernardo Kastrup argues that time and space are not objective scaffoldings of the external world, but rather an internal cognitive interface that we use to interact with a purely mental, Read More
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In our April “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m a tenured associate professor (9 years post phd), going through a bit of a post-tenure slump. Life has got in the way of research recently, after the big push to get tenure. I was steadily producing an article a year until about Read More
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Henry Fielding became one of the first notable English novelists after The Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 challenged his works to eliminate personal attacks on Robert Walpole. He earned his title as father of the English novel by incorporating realism to help his audience(s) understand representations of society through satirical diction. While Fielding’s novels are…
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“The modern masses do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience… What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[New Entry by Amber L. Griffioen on May 1, 2023.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Amber Griffioen replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous authors.]] Although rather unlikely to make many philosophers’… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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[Revised entry by Patricia Easton on May 1, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Antoine Le Grand (1629 – 1699) was a philosopher and catholic theologian who played an important role in propagating the Cartesian philosophy in England and beyond during the latter half of the seventeenth century. He was born in Douai, (at the Read More
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[Revised entry by Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever on May 1, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Among the many questions that arise in the attempt to come to philosophical grips with morality is what role, if any, moral principles have to play. Moral generalists think morality is best understood in terms of moral principles; Read More
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“At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild animal. Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the Read More
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This is the thirty-first installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. This guest post is by, Cédric Paternotte is an assistant professor in philosophy at Sorbonne University (Science, Norms, Democracy research team) France France is a European country of Read More
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Galileo Galilei and Anthony Fauci are linked to each other by a chain of events that started at the beginning of modern science, during the 17th century. But the “Science” that Fauci claimed to represent is very different from that of Galileo. While Galileo studied simple “linear” systems, modern science attempts to study complex, Read More
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April continued our growth and readership gains, and as we approach 50,000 monthly readers, which would represent nearly a doubling of our readership from April 2021, I once again write to emphasize the new reality of VOEGELINVIEW as a journal of arts, humanities, and intellectual criticism. Part of the growth of readership has come in…
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On a warm spring night in 2016, I found myself lost and alone in the small hours of morning in Kashgar. My welcome to the Xinjiang province of western China that night was not inhospitable, but my request of ‘near the hostel’ was lost in translation when I and four bleary-eyed others were herded into Read More
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“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“How under all these circumstances could I possibly perceive the good in what comes about? I can’t even see what comes about, since each end (synthesis) is the new thesis against which a further antithesis appears. The becoming never ceases — there are syntheses but never a true end.” – Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis Read More
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“No Politics, No Religion?,” a new book by Gregory Harms, lays out evidence from philosophy, science, history, and contemporary polling data, that debate of politics and religion can lead to greater agreement and more civil discourse. In this article, the author talks about how the philosopher Thomas Hobbes is often misunderstood. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) is Read More
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“You have only to rest in inaction, and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless. … But if you try to know it, you have already departed from Read More
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In this episode, we discuss the leading American linguist Leonard Bloomfield and his connections to the psychological school of behaviourism and the philosophical doctrines of logical positivism. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 32 Primary sources Bloomfield, Leonard (1914), An Introduction to the Study of Language, New York: Henry Read More
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Dante is generally known as the poet of Christendom for his monumental epic The Divine Comedy. If people are aware of additional writings from Dante, it is probably just the Vita Nuova. Few are familiar with Dante’s “other works,” his many epistles, letters, and other treatises ranging from philology to political philosophy. But those works…
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“That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The philosopher has no right to appeal to the ordinary person. The philosopher must doubt and doubt and doubt, and question when nobody questions, and risk making a laughing-stock of himself. If common sense were enough to settle all problems, we should have known everything long ago.” – Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible Originally Read More
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“It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The Eric Voegelin Institute hosted a three part webinar series on Eric Voegelin and his interlocutors. This series included commentary on the relationship of Eric Voegelin with Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt. The three webinar lectures are now uploaded on VOEGELINVIEW’S YouTube channel and available here, on the journal. The links below will…
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“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.” – Montesquieu, Pensées Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Don’t think about yourself, but think about others. Look at people’s sufferings, physical and mental, you have them close at hand, and this ought to be a good remedy for your troubles. … I think in some sense you don’t look at people’s faces closely enough.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Recollections of Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees, Read More
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[Revised entry by Jeff Malpas on April 28, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Donald (Herbert) Davidson was one of the most important philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century whose reception and influence is matched, among American philosophers, perhaps only by that of his teacher, W. V. O. Quine. Davidson’s ideas, presented Read More
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“It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.” – Theodor W. Adorno, in Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius, by Detlev Read More
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Katherine, Sidra, and Jeremy say goodbye and thanks to the Blog of the APA for such a meaningful chance to think together and apart. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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We don’t often think mental health is contagious in the same way a virus is. But a depressed person in a family can cause that depression to spread through the family, and an anxious person in a lift can be felt by the others. We humans are mimics, argues Don Forsyth, and we need to Read More
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I am still reading paper books. I think they favor concentration in a way that on-screen books cannot provide. Books are also one of the few places left in the memesphere where you can say what you think without being aggressed by a band of zombies or censored by brain-drained idiots. So, during the Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: How do we get rid of the prestige bias as a discipline? As many comments in this blog demonstrate, philosophers, even the ones who think they are unbiased, are extremely good at making themselves believe that prestige correlates well with quality, despite there Read More
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Because of a welcoming new guest inside him whose loving he adopts as his own with gratitude, this year, after living with his wisteria bush and its exuberant blooms for almost two decades he has begun daily turning off the front walk to cross the yard to the viny tangle by the curb to lift…
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Rachel Keith is a graduate student at University of Southern California focusing on ethics and social philosophy. In her free time, she enjoys hiking with her dog, riding horses, and playing The Sims. What are you working on right now? I have three projects I’m working on. First, I have a paper where I argue Read More
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“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.” – Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Francesco Berto and Mark Jago on April 27, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] According to David Hume, the impossible cannot be conceived. Moritz Schlick claimed that the logically impossible, such as an explicit inconsistency, is simply unthinkable. Yet Hegel complained that it is “one of the fundamental prejudices of… Originally appeared Read More
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“Even an illusion persists for as long as the concurrence of its causes. How does a being truly exist simply because there is a continuum of states that last a long time?” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:10) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Philosophy is certainly the medicine of the soul. Its aid is to be sought not from without, as in diseases of the body; and we must labour with all our resources and with all our strength to cure ourselves.” – Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[New Entry by Ori Herstein on January 27, 2023.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Ori Herstein replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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Eric Shoemaker is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in democratic theory and the philosophy of law, and his work thus far has focused on the topic of the political applications of random selection. Eric completed his JD at the University of Toronto in 2020. Eric has taught […]
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We in the United States have lived in an age of material comfort and relative geopolitical peace for almost eighty years. While there have been wars and protests, there has not been an existential threat to our country since World War II and the Great Depression. But instead of seizing this opportunity to cultivate character…
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“Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.” – Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.” – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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2023.04.7 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katharina T. Kraus, Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 306pp., $32.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781108812757. Reviewed by Pirachula Chulanon, Toronto Metropolitan University Kant’s account of the self is no doubt the most fascinating but also the most Read More
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“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.” – Georges Bataille, “The Cruel Practice of Art” (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” – Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Istvan Bodnar on April 24, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Aristotle had a lifelong interest in the study of nature. He investigated a variety of different topics, ranging from general issues like motion, causation, place and time, to systematic explorations and explanations of natural phenomena across different kinds of natural Read More
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“The cinnamon can be eaten, and so it gets cut down; the lacquer tree can be used, and so it gets hacked apart. All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!” – Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 4) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In an increasingly secular age, an increasing number of people are distancing themselves from organised religion. As a result, communities have become splintered, and we are ushering in a new era of individualism. But there may be a way to escape this trap through immersing ourselves in rave culture, argues Robin Sylvan. In this article, Read More
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“The space for subversion and dissent should remain as large as is consistent with civic order and stability.” – Martha Nussbaum, Political Emotions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The rational soul reaches its intended goal, no matter where the limit of its life is set. Not like dancing and theater and things like that, where the performance is incomplete if it’s broken off in the middle, but at any point — no matter which one you pick — it has fulfilled its mission, Read More
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“I find no compulsion more terrible than the obligation of speaking continuously and on the spur of the moment. I do not know whether this has anything to do with my mortal aversion to constraint of any kind; but to be absolutely obliged to speak is enough to make me infallibly talk nonsense.” – Jean-Jacques Read More
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Social media notoriously directs us into bubbles and echo chambers. But the incentives to engage more with like-minded individuals are more general, and also found in academia. It seems rather rare to find cutting-edge work on “big picture” debates like consequentialism vs deontology, for example. Part of this may stem from hyper-specialization, as people work […]
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Social media notoriously directs us into bubbles and echo chambers. But the incentives to engage more with like-minded individuals are more general, and also found in academia. It seems rather rare to find cutting-edge work on “big picture” debates like consequentialism vs deontology, for example. Part of this may stem from hyper-specialization, as people work […]
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String theory’s unexpected and robust mathematical relationships may hold the key to understanding the universe, even if they don’t neatly fit our current understanding of reality, writes Tasneem Zehra Husain. Is string theory worth pursuing? This question, like the perennial Jack-in-the-Box, never stays down for long and – like said toy – creates a commotion every Read More
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A new dichotomy is emerging in the current debate: the contrast between the view of the world as composed of nation-states in relentless competition with one another and the “one planet” movement, which emphasizes human solidarity. These two trends are on a collision course. Up to now, the “one planet” approach seemed to be the Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I want to ask for advice about the norms, strategies, etc. for possibly backing out of a non tenure track job (e.g., a limited VAP) offer, in order to accept a tenure-track job. Say, if someone were to accept a VAP offer in Read More
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Michael Broz is a doctoral candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research is focused on social relations and social ontology, specifically drawing from Marx. What are you working on right now? I am currently working on my proposal for my doctoral dissertation, which has me reading (and re-reading) Hobbes, Schmitt, Marx, and C. B. Read More
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“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.” – Oscar Wilde, “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Close observers of contemporary postmodern philosophy will notice that postmodern philosophy is commensurate with pack animals, for both operate on a deterministic model. How so? Consider that pack animals isolate, corral, and ultimately pounce on their prey. This is the nature of the kill. While ruthless and instinctual, this is indicative of nature at its…
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“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.” – Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy Originally appeared Read More
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“The meaning of a statement is its method of verification; that is we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.” – Moritz Schlick, Erkenntnis, vol 3 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Forget ‘I think therefore I am’. In a new theory of embodied consciousness, the neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio propose that feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed as secondary to reason, feelings are where consciousness begins. Without them, consciousness is impossible, they argue – with radical implications for the ‘hard problem’ of Read More
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The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Kristie Dotson, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at University of Michigan, and Dr. Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, have won the 2023 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: My journal submission has been under review for a while now. I want to email the journal to inquiry about the status. How should I write the email without frustrating the editor? I don’t think one should worry about frustrating the editor, provided Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m an incoming PhD student with a couple of questions about publishing in grad school. Throughout my MA, I have been working on a clearly historical topic ‘X’ in Early Modern philosophy (one that is fairly interesting but also quite specific). However, this Read More
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“To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.” —Pablo Casals Among…
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“Accept it without arrogance, let it go with indifference.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.33) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore, and Matthew McKeever on April 19, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Starting with Frege, the semantics (and pragmatics) of quotation has received a steady flow of attention over the last one hundred or so years. It has not, however, been subject to the same kind of intense Read More
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“One should assist to the best of one’s ability those who are suffering wrong and not overlook it; to do so is right and good, not to do so is wrong and bad.” – Democritus, Fragments, B261 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“For too long it has been thought that in order to understand metaphors it is necessary to know the code (or the encyclopedia): the truth is that the metaphor is the tool that permits us to understand the encyclopedia better. This is the type of knowledge that the metaphor stakes out for us.” – Umberto Read More
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The famous militant feminist slogan from the 1970s, “the future is female,” experienced a resurgence recently following signs of the rolling back of important rights gained during international women’s movements like those won in Roe v. Wade. The phrase originated in a feminist bookstore in New York City and suggests that in the future women Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I have a question about dealing with gender bias. My colleges in my current department are great, but I find it seriously demotivating that I regularly get underestimated as a woman philosopher. People are generally nice and don’t do this on purpose, but Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Are there any norms around using a paper that is conditionally accepted/got minor revisions as a writing sample for a job? It would be much closer to the area of the job than my other published articles, and it would be one out Read More
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The four-dimensional block universe, supported by Einstein’s theory of relativity, is a world where past, present and future are equally real. Philosophers of time have debated about whether this makes a difference to issues like freedom, responsibility, and death. Arguing against the hopeless fatalism often associated with this theory, Nikk Effingham examines the philosophical details Read More
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In this episode of the podcast I chat to Jess Morley. Jess is currently a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the use of data in healthcare, oftentimes on the impact of big data and AI, but, as she puts it herself, usually on ‘less whizzy’ things. Sadly, our conversation Read More
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In this episode of the podcast I chat to Jess Morley. Jess is currently a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the use of data in healthcare, oftentimes on the impact of big data and AI, but, as she puts it herself, usually on ‘less whizzy’ things. Sadly, our conversation […]
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In theory, philosophy can be about anything. In practice, this is mostly fantasy. Philosophy is today as specialized a discipline as any other, which is probably both inevitable and good. But lately, I have been trying to take philosophy’s theoretical promise of freedom seriously—to focus a little less on well-established topics, and (however clumsily) a Read More
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The night is young, but everyone is old In this town’s restaurants and whiskey bars. I dream of fireside wisdom—truths retold— Yet all I hear? Worn lies of girls and cars. The night is young, but everyone is sore In this pretending jazz club, Blue Guitars. I’m looking for a pathway or a door; They’re…
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“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” – Confucius, Analects Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Seyed Mousavian, Suzanne Sumner, Mehdi Aminrazavi, and Glen Van Brummelen on April 18, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Umar Khayyam was a polymath, scientist, philosopher, and poet of the 11th century CE. Whereas his mathematical works and poetry have been the subject of much discussion, his recently edited and published Read More
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“I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.” – Seneca, On the Happy Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy! The aim of the series is to examine the use of methods from the cognitive sciences to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is comprised of two parts. In the target post, a practitioner describes their use of … Originally appeared on The Read More
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We are excited to share information about the Closing Conference of the 2021 Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) with you! This is 2-day event featuring keynote addresses from leading researchers in neuroscience and philosophy will be shared remotely from 12-3pm EDT on June 4 and June 5. They … Originally appeared on The Read More
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Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of diverse methods to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is comprised of two parts. In the target post, a practitioner describes their use of the method under … Originally appeared on The Read More
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This is the first post in a series of five about my recent book, Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference (OUP, 2022). I will start things off by trying to convey the most basic motivation behind the book in terms that should be broadly accessible to theorists and philosophers … Originally appeared on The Read More
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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At the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of transformation. The film is often disregarded by casual moviegoers for its excessively slow pace and overly abstract final act. But it is its structure that reveals true intentions. The first act reveals that humanity’s evolution was sparked by an…
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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“In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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“Let us not make random conjectures about the most important matters.” – Heraclitus, Fragments, B47 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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Peter Cave (2023). How to Think Like a Philosopher. Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live. Bloomsbury Continuum. 304 pages. ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-3994-0591-1; eBook: 978-1-3994-0592-8. Get it here on Amazon US (Affiliate link). Hardcover: 24 USD, Kindle: 9.99 USD. A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually […]
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“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” – Thomas Paine, First Principles of Government Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Almost anyone who has taught film studies has drawn on one of the numerous editions of the superb textbook by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Film Art. I have done so in a number of courses involved in the field. However, since my courses have been part of the popular culture component of programs at…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism of the poets in his corpus has less to do with his rejection of myth and imagery as much as it does the moral instruction inferred and implied…
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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“A man is what he wills himself to be.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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“Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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“If an action is performed not because tradition commands it but for other motives… even indeed for precisely the motives which once founded the tradition, it is called immoral.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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Beaumarchais and Electronic Enlightenment The addition to Electronic Enlightenment (EE) of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies. Drawn from the second volume of Gunnar and Mavis von Proschwitz’s edited collection, Beaumarchais and the “Courrier de lÉurope”, first published thirty years ago in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, these letters […]
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“If anyone tells you that a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: ‘He does not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned only these.’” – Epictetus, The Enchiridion Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.” – Robert Read More
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“The philosophy of freedom begins with a free act before which there is not, nor can there be, existence, being. If we were to begin with being as the basis, and recognize this primacy of being over freedom, then everything, including freedom, is determined by being. But a determined freedom is not freedom at all.” Read More
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James McElvenny, ed. 2023. The Limits of Structuralism. Forgotten Texts in the History of Modern Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 336 p. ISBN 9780192849045Publisher’s website Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of structuralism, a scholarly movement and associated body of doctrines foundational to modern linguistics and many Read More
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Universal basic income is an idea usually associated with the political left. However, it also has surprising support from the Libertarian right in the form of Milton Friedman’s negative income tax. Indeed, Friedman’s case for NITs gets to the core of his case for free markets, freedom from coercion, and where government should intervene in Read More
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This essay was presented to the Eric Voegelin Society on 26 September, 2022. The Hidden God has chosen to speak. Or, to put it more abstractly, the divine reality has manifested itself. It manifests itself on specific occasions and also in our hearts and in the depths of our being, at all times, in…
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am a few years into my TT gig, and I have real mixed feelings. It is a comfortable gig, with a lowish teaching load, and in a culturally vibrant place, and the pay is healthy. But I am isolated, and campus life Read More
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The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with philosophers. The following is an edited excerpt from the interview with Greg Caruso. [interviewer: Cliff Sosis] In this interview, Gregg Caruso, professor of philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at Northeastern University Read More
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“Conceit is incompatible with understanding.” – Leo Tolstoy, in Talks with Tolstoy by Alexander Goldenweiser Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source. They begin life trampling on all their younger brothers and sisters, and relations of every kind, and are taught and educated so to do.” – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man Read More
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In 1979, an IBM presentation included a slide with the following injunction: Despite this warning, nearly fifty years later computing systems are increasingly used to make high-stakes decisions in an ever-growing range of fields. Sometimes, these applications are genuinely useful, saving time and labor by automating tedious, routine decisions that have clear and consistent criteria. Read More
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“There is seeing and touching by a self which is like a dream or illusion. Sensation is not perceived by the mind because it is produced simultaneously with it.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:99) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The quest to understand quantum mechanics has led to remarkable technological advancements, granting us power and control over the natural world. However, despite these successes, the paradoxes and mysteries surrounding the theory continue to challenge our understanding of reality. This raises the question of whether science, particularly quantum mechanics, provides us with true comprehension of Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am a recently admitted Ph.D. student and want to re-apply during my first year of graduate school. I am worried that the admissions committee will look down on my application since I haven’t spent a whole year by the time I am Read More
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Music and nature have formed a close symbiosis from the beginning. Music is itself rooted in the facts of nature, in mathematical ratios and acoustical overtones. And theorists of music have argued that it, like the other arts, is in its essence an imitation of “nature,” if we take that to mean both the phenomena…
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What is subject marketing? An interview with Hana Purslow, philosophy marketing manager In this interview, our marketing manager for philosophy, Hana Purslow, outlines OUP’s approach to subject marketing. She provides examples of campaigns and channels that we use to promote our content and reveals what she enjoys most about her job and how she sees Read More
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“A scientist, Dr. Hans Zarkov, works night and day, perfecting the tool he hopes to save the world… His great mind is strained by the tremendous effort” (From Alex Raymond’s “Flash Gordon”) Sometimes, we tend to see science as the work of individual scientists, maybe of the “mad scientist” kind. Great minds fighting to Read More
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“It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections Originally appeared on Read More
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“We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, the right to live, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal. We must acknowledge this, and proclaim it Read More
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“Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, “paralysed” as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose Read More
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As Russia and Ukraine are engaged in conflict, espionage has hit the headlines once again, with documents leaked from the Pentagon highlighting the US has been spying on Russia. All the while, numerous questions emerge; is spying ethical? If so, are both Russia and Ukraine justified in spying? And could spying help bring a swift Read More
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Much have I roamed through labyrinthine land, Minding matters of man’s clandestine mien: Myths marked by incipiency unseen, ‘Til modern minds usurp and reprimand. Have I been told with brazen surety Unwakeful sleep Achilles’ wrath conceived, Or eagles passing o’er Gaia believed To be but masks of strange obscurity? But then I stood beneath the…
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Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Graz Town: Graz Country: Austria Job Description: The Institute of Philosophy, Working Section Moral and Political Philosophy is looking for a University assistant without doctorate (m/f/d) 30 hours a week, fixed-term employment for 4 years position to be filled: as of now Application deadline: 03.05.2023 Originally appeared Read More
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Though we don’t know the exact year it was founded, Fresno State Philosophy Club has operated for over thirty years. Back in the 1990s, the club met at a local English-style pub. In more recent years, the Philosophy Club has met regularly within the Philosophy Department’s conference room, which was renamed ‘The Phil Zone.’ The Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I appreciated the “preparing for success in a new job” thread a few days ago. I was wondering if it might be possible to have a post like this specifically for permanent jobs in the UK? I’ll start one in the UK next Read More
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Few technologies have generated as much buzz (or is it hype?), in recent years, as large language models. Open AI’s various iterations of GPT are currently leading the charge, though others are catching up. To help make sense of this technology, and to sort the signal from the noise, I have been doing a series Read More
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“If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?” – Confucius, Analects Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.” – Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“He who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.” – Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Let me start with a couple of examples. Look at the night sky and try to find the Big Dipper. At first, you see an unordered magnitude of astronomical objects. A star chart can guide you in your task. The chart helps you to localize objects in the night sky. Next, suppose you want to Read More
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April is autism acceptance month. Truly accepting autism requires both understanding neurodiversity and unlearning neuronormativity. The discussion that follows aims to provide some steps toward this process of understanding and unlearning. For example, did you know that it is incorrect and potentially problematic to refer to individuals as neurodiverse? And were you aware that even Read More
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In one sense, war most certainly is not a game. People’s lives are at stake. But a branch of mathematical thinking named ‘game theory’ can help us understand relationships between warring states, and how to best navigate them, by treating their interactions as ‘games’. This could help us avoid ever recreating the near human suicide Read More
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2023.04.4 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Cécile Fabre, Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence, Oxford University Press, 2022, 251pp., $40.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198833765. Reviewed by C. A. J. Coady, University of Melbourne Cécile Fabre has written an important and timely book about the conceptual shape Read More
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2023.04.5 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Tao Jiang, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 536pp., $35.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780197611364. Reviewed by Eric L. Hutton, University of Utah Tao Jiang’s book presents an ambitious and sweeping survey of early Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’ve looked through a lot of posts about negotiating on here, but I was hoping to get some more specific advice. First, which kinds of candidate attributes actually matter to admins when asking for a higher salary on the basis of coming in Read More
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Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irishman by heritage, was primarily known for his satirically inclined works in English Literature during the seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century literary movements called the Restoration and Augustan Periods. Swift’s comical diction in A Tale of a Tub underlined his conservative values and strong devotion to the Anglican Church which aided his projection in gauging the…
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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously delivers a clearly-articulated and well-supported defense of its eponymous thesis. It should come as no surprise to longtime readers of Táíwò that here he offers a thoroughgoing, meticulously-argued text making diverse intellectual engagements with a variety of African thinkers. For my purposes below, it will be easiest Read More
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In this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, cognitive science and AI ethics. He is currently a philosophy fellow at the Centre for AI Safety in San Francisco. He completed his PhD at New York University. We do Read More
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Xenophon’s kinder Socrates “Of Socrates we have nothing genuine but in the Memorabilia of Xenophon,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend in 1819, comparing Xenophon’s work favourably with the “mysticisms” and “whimsies” of Plato’s dialogues. More recently, many philosophers have taken the opposite view; a typical verdict is that of Terence Irwin in 1974, who described Xenophon Read More
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[Revised entry by Edward Wierenga on April 10, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The psalmist asks God, Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there;… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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“It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” – Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Ingo Brigandt and Alan Love on April 10, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Reductionism encompasses a set of ontological, epistemological, and methodological claims about the relations between different scientific domains. The basic question of reduction is whether the properties, concepts, explanations, or methods from one scientific domain (typically at higher Read More
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[Revised entry by Robin Rollinger and Hynek Janousek on April 10, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Anton Marty (October 18, 1847 – October 1, 1914) was a philosopher of language, psychologist, and ontologist. He was born in Schwyz, Switzerland in a very large family and baptized as a Catholic with the full name of Read More
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“Love is a joy, perhaps a joy mixed with pain, but a joy nevertheless. If the joy is missing, or if it shrinks into a flicker, then love is missing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nachlass, MS 133 (26 October 1946) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The mere philosopher is a character, which is commonly but little acceptable in the world, as being supposed to contribute nothing either to the advantage or pleasure of society; while he lives remote from communication with mankind, and is wrapped up in principles and notions equally remote from their comprehension.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’ll be teaching a graduate seminar for the first time in the Fall. I’d be curious to hear how people think graduate teaching is similar/different to teaching undergrads. Some specific questions: How do your goals for a grad seminar differ from an undergrad Read More
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Imagine a parent–teacher conference. The teacher tells you your child is “on track” to graduate from high school. Relieved, you follow up: “Great! Can you tell me more precisely what that means?” The teacher responds: “Sure. ‘Being on track’ is a technical term. It means the probability of graduation is 50%–66%. Of course, there are Read More
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[Revised entry by Hannah Kasher and Moshe Kahan on April 10, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Harry A. Wolfson once described medieval philosophy as one “which placed itself at the service of Scriptures” (Philo, II, p. 439). From a formal aspect, a new genre was created: “From now on, a new form of exposition Read More
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Rationality leads to better choices in our lives and is the ultimate driver of moral progress claimed famous author and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker. Yet many, including groundbreaking advertising executive and public intellectual Rory Sutherland, disagree. Sutherland was interviewed by the IAI to discuss his views on the failures of rationality, science, and the need Read More
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“The seam is gone. The source cut off. The image, freed from hardware — and disturbances from the universe — can haunt whatever space, unimpeded. It doesn’t speak of the beginnings of the world any more, or have any hint of alien life about it. Instead we seem to be the ghosts in our own Read More
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“The way in which ideas are formed gives a character to the human mind. The mind which derives its ideas from real relations is thorough; the mind which relies on apparent relations is superficial.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Two of the ways I track what the right is up to in America are seeing what gets stuffed into my Facebook feed and getting memos from the university administration about the latest changes to higher education. Most recently, there was a deluge of posts about the Great Beer War of 2023. For those unfamiliar Read More
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“Each of the women in Eliot’s life brought out a facet of the enigma he presented.” Four women were in the public spotlight during Eliot’s life: Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Mary Trevelyan, Valerie Fletcher, and Emily Hale. Three were Englishwomen. Emily Hale was the lone American. Hale’s public time with Eliot was more substantially hidden due to…
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For much of history, religion has been the avenue through which people have sought eternity. Today’s secular West tries to think about death outside of the language of spirituality. Paul Bickley raises the question of what it is we are prepared to believe about death, the body and the ‘soul’, in a society where religious Read More
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“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.” – Albert Camus, Selected Essays and Notebooks Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return.” – Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Who’s murky enough to settle slowly into pure clarity, and who still enough to awaken slowly into life? If you nurture this Way, you never crave fullness. Never crave fullness and you’ll wear away into completion.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Hinton tr. (Ch 15) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Yuri Pines on April 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Legalism (which henceforth will be called the fa tradition) is a popular – albeit quite inaccurate – designation of an intellectual current that gained considerable popularity in the latter half of the Warring States period (Zhanguo, 453 – 221 BCE). Read More
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“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Anna Jefferson Marks, 12 July 1788” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Our “objections to utilitarianism” chapter now features a new section on general argumentative tools that can be repurposed to address many common objections. These include: Maintaining distance from hypothetical cases Accommodating nearby intuitions Gobbling up competing values Stuffing people into suitcases The Pluralist’s Dilemma Banging the drums of war, and Making winning distinctions Check out Read More
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Yours truly, Ugo Bardi, in a recent interview on a local TV station. note the “Limits to Growth” t-shirt and, as a lapel pin, the ASPO-Italy logo. A few days ago, I was invited to an interview on a local TV about the energy transition. I prepared myself by collecting data. I was planning Read More
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In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Biko Mandela Gray, Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, and Ryan J. Johnson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University, discuss their new book, Phenomenology of Black Spirit. By examining the relationship between Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and the work of twelve Black thinkers, this book asks the Read More
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“I’m disappointed in not finding in Kant’s family tree of basic concepts the category “almost,” a category that has surely accomplished, and spoiled, as much in the world and in literature as any other. In the mind of natural skeptics it colors all other concepts and intuitions.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments Originally appeared on Read More
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Even before Trump was indicted, he and his defenders claimed that the Democrats had “weaponized our sacred system of justice” against him. The general narrative is that the indictment is the result of the Democrats’ hatred of Trump, their desire to harm him and their intention to interfere in the 2024 election. While their defense Read More
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Our “objections to utilitarianism” chapter now features a new section on general argumentative tools that can be repurposed to address many common objections. These include: Maintaining distance from hypothetical cases Accommodating nearby intuitions Gobbling up competing values Stuffing people into suitcases The Pluralist’s Dilemma Banging the drums of war, and Making winning distinctions Check out […]
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Our “objections to utilitarianism” chapter now features a new section on general argumentative tools that can be repurposed to address many common objections. These include: Maintaining distance from hypothetical cases Accommodating nearby intuitions Gobbling up competing values Stuffing people into suitcases The Pluralist’s Dilemma Banging the drums of war, and Making winning distinctions Check out […]
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As I told you in a previous post, for months, Google has been pestering me with notices that there was something wrong with the privacy policy of my blog and that if I wouldn’t fix it, they would start doing dark and dire things, such as making my blog invisible to search engines. Now, Read More
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Our “objections to utilitarianism” chapter now features a new section on general argumentative tools that can be repurposed to address many common objections. These include: Maintaining distance from hypothetical cases Accommodating nearby intuitions Gobbling up competing values Stuffing people into suitcases The Pluralist’s Dilemma Banging the drums of war, and Making winning distinctions Check out […]
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am a second year PhD student wondering what the ideal timeline should be for publishing. I plan to be on the market my fifth year, and I know that it takes months (years?!) from first round submissions to having a publication accepted. Read More
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Trevor Adams is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His primary research interests are epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. His dissertation is focused on the nature and rationality of hope. What excites you about philosophy? Since philosophy is both an individual and group activity I think there are really two Read More
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Matthew 1 The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ JESUS, “God with us,” who begat mankind, May your life and your words begat in us A hunger and a thirst for who you are, For you are Emmanuel-Messiah, The one for whom your prophet wrote poems That foretold your virgin birth: the promise Against…
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“The teacher of love teaches struggle. The teacher of lifeless isolation from the world teaches peace.” – Karl Jaspers, Psychology of World Views Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The summit of human existence, say the philosophers, is spiritual serenity, aequanimitas: But in that case the animals should be our ideal, for in the matter of imperturbability they leave nothing to be desired. Look at a grazing sheep, or a cow. They do not look before and after, and sigh for what is not. Read More
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“It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Learn not to revere human things too much.” – Aeschylus, Niobe, Fragment 159 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Del Ratzsch and Jeffrey Koperski on April 5, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Some phenomena within nature exhibit such exquisiteness of structure, function or interconnectedness that many people have found it natural to see a deliberative and directive mind behind those phenomena. The mind in question is typically taken to Read More
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“The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. The very moment the latter is undermined, capitalism will totter. True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force — necessity. Is it not a fact that during industrial Read More
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[New Entry by Josh Thurow on April 5, 2023.] Atonement is what we do to fix relationships fractured by wrongdoing. To atone is, at first pass, to do something to repair this rupture by addressing the source of the rupture, namely the wrongdoing. The end goal is to become one, to be at one, or Read More
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2023.04.1 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Georges Rey, Representation of language: Philosophical issues in a Chomskyan linguistics, Oxford University Press, 2020, 480pp., $94.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198855637. Reviewed by John Collins, University of East Anglia Georges Rey’s splendid volume serves as an expert survey of Chomsky’s theoretical thinking as well as offering Read More
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2023.04. : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Amie L. Thomasson, Norms and Necessity, Oxford University Press, 2020, 252pp., $82.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780190098193. Reviewed by Marc A. Moffett, University of Texas, El Paso In Norms and Necessity, Amie Thomasson (2020) sets out to develop a normative theory of our metaphysical modal vocabulary Read More
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2023.04.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katherine Elkins (ed.), Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2023, 251pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190921583. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London This is a volume in the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, which offers ‘philosophical perspectives’ Read More
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Donald Trump just made history as the only former President to be indicted. Given his long history of avoiding consequences for his misdeeds, this probably came as a shock to him. While it is hoped that Trump’s lawyers will provide the competent legal defense that all accused citizens are supposed to receive, he and his […]
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2023.04.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katherine Elkins (ed.), Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2023, 251pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190921583. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London This is a volume in the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, which offers ‘philosophical perspectives’ […]
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2023.04.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katherine Elkins (ed.), Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2023, 251pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190921583. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London This is a volume in the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, which offers ‘philosophical perspectives’ […]
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2023.04.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katherine Elkins (ed.), Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2023, 251pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190921583. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London This is a volume in the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, which offers ‘philosophical perspectives’ […]
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“Fortune gives great gifts but is undependable, whereas nature is self-sufficient; so its dependable inferiority excels the greater advantage which one hopes for [from fortune].” – Democritus, Fragments, B176 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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2023.04.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katherine Elkins (ed.), Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2023, 251pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190921583. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London This is a volume in the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, which offers ‘philosophical perspectives’ […]
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While today’s anti-abortion movement has been empowered by the recent fall of Roe v. Wade, the original ‘right-to-life’ movement dates to the mid-nineteenth century. In the mid-1800s, physicians began to take over the practice of childbirth from midwives and the medical specialty of obstetrics developed. The movement to medicalize women’s reproductive health made use of Read More
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2023.04.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Katherine Elkins (ed.), Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2023, 251pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190921583. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London This is a volume in the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, which offers ‘philosophical perspectives’ […]
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Generative AI like ChatGPT is a threat but not necessarily for the reasons you might think.
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We often come across the ‘q-word’ in fields unrelated to quantum physics. In the realm of pseudoscience, quantum physics terms are used to explain everything from an ability to influence our reality, read minds, and heal ourselves. The average educated scientist may scoff at these claims and never think anything of them. However, professor of Read More
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This is just a quick note that I have a new paper out in the Journal of Moral Philosophy entitled, “(When) Are Authors Culpable for Causing Harm?“. The abstract: To what extent are authors morally culpable for harms caused by their published work? Can authors be culpable even if their ideas are misused, perhaps because they failed Read More
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In our March “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I have a question about the job market. Recently on Twitter, I have seen quite a few people posting about either permanent jobs or good postdocs they have secured. However, when I then check out their CV, I am surprised to see that Read More
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It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to rest on the misguided notion that if one knows the philosophy, then one will be able to teach it (or more pessimistically, teaching is not valued enough to prioritize it within Read More
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I have no utensils, not a blanket. At one point I was given sheets by local people, but I gave them to a pregnant women. We feel forgotten by the world… we have nothing. As reported by Médecins Sans Frontières, Ireland I I watched the Lamb opening the first seal and heard one of the…
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“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” – Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Kyle Stanford on April 4, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] At the heart of the underdetermination of scientific theory by evidence is the simple idea that the evidence available to us at a given time may be insufficient to determine what beliefs we should hold in response to it. In Read More
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[Revised entry by Janet Levin on April 4, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the Read More
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“If I were asked for a definition of myself, I would say that I am one who waits; I investigate my surroundings, I interpret everything in terms of what I discover, I become sensitive.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The world appears to be a certain way, but sometimes appearances are deceiving. This doesn’t seem to undermine what we think we know, for instance, the apparently obvious fact that we have hands. But, how do you know you’re not dreaming right now? Or better, do you know you’re not a handless brain in a Read More
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“Before art had moulded our behaviour, and taught our passions to speak an artificial language, our morals were rude but natural; and the different ways in which we behaved proclaimed at the first glance the difference of our dispositions. Human nature was not at bottom better then than now; but men found their security in Read More
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From police brutality in the United States, to an ‘institutionally sexist, racist and homophobic’ police in the UK, policing faces an uncertain future. Professor Mike Hough offers his insight into the damning Casey Review as a missed opportunity to engage with key issues, and proposes how a better engagement with procedural justice and combatting ‘warrior Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m new to teaching and I’m struggling with making the transition from lecture preparation to delivery. I have no problem doing the readings/research, making detailed notes, making up a plan for the lecture, etc. What I’m not sure how to do is take Read More
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This man wants you to worship, Through him, a merciful God. He’s dressed For the part. You wouldn’t choose this outfit For an ordinary day’s work. I too am dressed for the occasion, Though not, I grant, in ecclesiastical robes. A picked-out shirt, a known-to-be favourite jacket, A much-worn tie. This was the priest who…
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“Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’ — that is the motto of enlightenment.” – Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment? Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader Read More
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The question of ‘why?’ has often been seen as a dirty one in biochemistry. But Nick Lane isn’t your ordinary biochemist, not even your ordinary scientist. In this interview, Nick offers us an exciting account which not only starts to reveal how we all came to be but addresses some core philosophical problems. We delve Read More
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Now that it’s been over a month since our last “how can we help you?” thread, it’s time for a new thread. For those of you unfamiliar with this series, this is a chance for you to post openly or anonymously in the comments section below on anything you could use help with related to the profession. Read More
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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“The problems of life are insoluble on the surface, and can only be solved in depth.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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“He who can be forced has not learned how to die.” – Seneca, Hercules Furens Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Beyond his technical work, Thore is interested […]
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“The problems of life cannot be solved by the automatic application of universally-valid norms. We cannot say that under the same conditions one must act in one certain way, everywhere and always. This cannot be said, first of all, because conditions are never exactly the same. We might state the maxim conversely: man must act Read More
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In 2003, the “Anthrax scare” led many people to use duct tape to seal the windows of their homes. It would have been a good idea if the purpose was to suffer even more than usual from indoor pollution while at the same time doing little or nothing against a hypothetical biological attack. Yet, this Read More
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One of the stock AI doomsday scenarios is the robot rebellion: AI turns on its creators and usually attempts to exterminate them. Rossum’s Universal Robots famously introduced the term “robot” and the robot rebellion into science fiction. While these robots were workers rather than warriors, the idea of war machines turning against their creators became Read More
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I have a new paper, forthcoming later this year, in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. It’s about what we ought to do (or believe) when we are unsure of whether another entity has a mind. While many of looked at this topic before, I argue that a proper accounting of the false positive and Read More
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I have a new paper, forthcoming later this year, in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. It’s about what we ought to do (or believe) when we are unsure of whether another entity has a mind. While many of looked at this topic before, I argue that a proper accounting of the false positive and […]
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I have a new paper, forthcoming later this year, in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. It’s about what we ought to do (or believe) when we are unsure of whether another entity has a mind. While many of looked at this topic before, I argue that a proper accounting of the false positive and […]
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I have a new paper, forthcoming later this year, in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. It’s about what we ought to do (or believe) when we are unsure of whether another entity has a mind. While many of looked at this topic before, I argue that a proper accounting of the false positive and […]
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Today, a consortium of Detroit automakers announced plans to reintroduce tailfins in a new generation of dream cars. “We know what customers want,” explained an industry representative, “people don’t want those silly electric cars. They want real cars that look like cars, smell like cars, and make the noise of cars. Tailfins are the Read More
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“Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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There is a fairly common attitude among Eurocrats that a good crisis should not go to waste. And the ideal solution to a crisis is to move toward an “ever closer union,” that is, to push the European Union toward a superstate by hook or by crook. But if the main argument of Stefan Auer’s…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having chanced upon Notes From Underground in a bookstore in Nice in the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals and Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground both explore the…
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“Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.” – Voltaire, Oeuvres de Voltaire: Lettres Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this series, I summarized major arguments in A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology. My exploration of the uses of psychology has emphasized the explanatory roles it fulfills within broader cultural projects. Briefly, empirical psychology seeks mechanistic explanations which then filter into popular uses of psychology, and discursive clinical psychology enacts individualism through rituals Read More
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“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries.” – John Stuart Mill, Read More
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Three years in, we stay true to the pulse underlying our philosophical work. Coming from memorable personal relationships, we end with free correspondence. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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“It’s so simple, so obvious. Exponential growth inside a finite system leads to collapse. But people don’t see it. So the authority of people is bankrupt.” – Richard Powers, The Overstory (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Exploring how our natural inclination to believe in the honesty of others shapes our communication and social interactions. Tim Levine uncovers the reasons behind our vulnerability to deception and highlights the benefits of defaulting to truth and its role in the development of human civilization, culture, and relationships. Communication is an essential part of being human. Read More
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This clip is a brief audio update on what’s been happening with the podcast, and what’s going to happen in the next few months. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Originally appeared on History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Read More
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In this episode, we explore the historical background to linguistic relativity or the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 31 Primary sources Boas, Franz, ed. (1911), Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part I, Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Google Books Carroll, John B. (1956), Language, Thought, Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: A question about teaching, or kind of. I approach this with seriousness. No exaggeration or snobbery involved. I have been teaching for more than 10 years including those done as TA. Teaching eval is always something like below 3/5. It’s not that I Read More
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Rebeccah Leiby is the Hoffberger Ethics Fellow at the University of Baltimore’s Hoffberger Center for Ethical Engagement (previously, the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics). She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 at Boston University, where she defended a dissertation entitled “Towards a Contractualist Theory of Transitional Justice.” What are you working on right now? In addition Read More
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March was another productive and important month at VOEGELINVIEW. We continued our consolidation in readership and began our expansion as a general-purpose arts & humanities journal of criticism, reviews, and poetry. We also welcomed new contributors, including Peter Welsh, Ethan McGuire, Mona Lyndon-Rochelle, Sophia Klomparens and the world renown poet and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi. In…
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VOEGELINVIEW is free to read but depends on the generosity of its readers to ensure the highest quality of cultural and intellectual commentary is given to the world. With readers and contributors across all continents, we value our ability to bring commentary, reviews, and poems on the enduring questions of the human condition. While free…
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“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” – Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Joél Biard on March 30, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Albert of Saxony (ca. 1320 – 1390), Master of Arts at Paris, then Rector of the University of Vienna, and finally Bishop of Halberstadt (Germany). As a logician, he was at the forefront of the movement that expanded the analysis of Read More
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“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine. What it really does is to make him blind with fury, petty with suspicion, and harsh with envy.” – Emma Goldman, “Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure” Read More
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Philosophers have been discouraging the use of ChatGPT and sharing ideas about how to make it harder for students to use this software to “cheat.” A recent post on Daily Nous represents the mainstream perspective. Such critiques fail to engage with crip theory, which brings to light ChatGPT’s potential to both assist and, in the Read More
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The ethical quandary at the core of how we represent the mind in practical uses of psychology is the technology of agency. The biomedical and psychodynamic (i.e., discursive) approaches are “two different ways to identify, understand, and respond to mental anguish.”[i] In the latter, there are mechanistic accounts for how and why they come to Read More
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After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine back in February 2022, the West responded with some of the most wide-reaching sanctions ever. The UK government claimed that they ‘would cripple Russia’s war machine’ whilst Biden asserted that ‘sanctions are devastating their economy’. But a year on, the predicted 15% collapse in GDP has not materialised and Putin’s Read More
Folks, Google keeps pestering me with requests for an appropriate “EU User Content Policy”; but it never tells me what exactly is wrong with it. The only message I receive from them is Customer ID: ca-pub-7714140901520074 Our policy review indicates that while the site(s)/app(s) below have a consent notice in place, its wording fails to Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, Tom writes: I frequently come across academic articles/books that, for whatever reason, I do not have access to through my institution, even if the article/book is published with a well-known press. Aside from buying it, what [to] do? Another reader submitted the following reply: [A]re you Read More
“It needs an ending that ties everything together conceptually. Otherwise, it just tastes good and who cares?” Chef Julian Slowik, the villain of the film The Menu, has spent his life driven by the desire to achieve perfection in the culinary arts. He has, by his own admission, sacrificed his body, his mind, and his Read More
“To be a person is to be transcendent. We therefore know about the transcendent, God, only because we participate in that mode of being.” – David Walsh, The Priority of the Person The observation of Lent brings into contrast the growing number of people who do not live a religious faith. How can people…The post Seeking the Transcendent and American Cinema appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 609 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk with you again, not only my days but my hours are numbered.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Originally appeared Read More
In its pragmatic project, empirical psychology employs metaphors to interpret data and deliver descriptive explanations.[i] Insofar as it is a positivist project, empirical psychology pursues reductive explanations which have the semblance of taking phenomena designated by natural language to be composed of more ‘real’ elements. Reductive descriptions of complex systems generally emphasize decomposition into structural Read More
“A tautology’s truth is certain, a proposition’s possible, a contradiction’s impossible.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Wages have been stagnant across much of the west over the last 40 years. Economists have blamed globalisation, innovation and an ageing population but perhaps the source exists within the market itself. David Cabrielli, a Professor of Labour Law, argues that we need to inject more competition into our job hunt, to boost wages and Read More
I have a couple of new Substack posts up on the moral hazards of AI development: Big Tech’s Unethical AI Experiment on Humanity No one knows how to reliably test for AI safety There’s also a new open letter that anyone can sign advocating for a pause on giant AI experiments. For an earlier post Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: How do folks know when they have a project that’s best suited for a book format, and not, say, a series of articles? And is it risky to write a book before tenure? Fair questions, and I’m curious to hear what readers think! Read More
One of the very first conferences that I presented for when I was a graduate student at Montclair State University was the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion (MAR-AAR) annual conference. The conference was at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, New Jersey the first time that I attended. Everyone was incredibly welcoming. Read More
As I look up at the stars That sing to me from afar, I dwell in that spirit divine Giving life to this soul of mine. My eyes gazing on the moon, Whose dance shall end very soon, Will rest to shining silver But rise to golden splendor.The post Dance of the Sky appeared first on VoegelinView.
[Revised entry by Øystein Linnebo on March 28, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Platonism about mathematics (or mathematical platonism) is the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices. Just as electrons and planets exist independently of us, so do numbers Read More
[Revised entry by Charles Taliaferro on March 28, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Philosophy of religion is the philosophical examination of the themes and concepts involved in religious traditions as well as the broader philosophical task of reflecting on matters of religious significance including the nature of religion itself, alternative concepts of God or Read More
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“What kind of philosophy one chooses depends upon what kind of human being one is. For a philosophical system is not a dead utensil which one could reject or accept as if it were arbitrary. On the contrary, the philosophical system is enlivened by the human soul that one possesses.” – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, First Read More
The Fine-Tuning Argument Against the Multiverse A striking phenomenon uncovered by contemporary physics is that the values of the fundamental parameters of nature, such as the universal gravitational constant, the strengths of the weak and strong nuclear forces, the cosmological constant, and the like, appear to fall within extremely narrow life-permitting windows. Contemporary philosophers and physicists Read More
This video highlights, via humorous understatement in a brief narrative, the very different experiences white and black people often have with the police. An otherwise difficult and uncomfortable issue is raised in a non-threatening, playful, yet critical manner. Any discussion of race and racism in the U.S. recently can be treacherous, so understatement can be Read More
IT'S BACK -The world's largest philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn returns to Hay 26-29th May. With over 300 events, expect the likes of Slavoj Žižek, Fiona Hill, Daniel Dennett, Brian Greene, Rowan Williams, Gillian Tett and more. 20% off tickets with code PHILNEWS23.
Over the past few years, we have witnessed a profound divergence between the heights of our scientific capabilities and the depths of our political failures. Sciences’ emphasis on discovery and collaboration has the power to unite people in the quest for understanding, while our politics often fall foul to divisiveness, fostering pointlessly destructive behaviour. In Read More
2023.03.5 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Fabian Ruge, The Stoic Theory of Sign and Proof, Schwabe Verlag, 2022, 166pp., €48.00 (hbk), ISBN 9783796545566. Reviewed by Reier Helle, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München Fabian Ruge’s study offers a detailed account of the epistemic notions of ‘sign’ (sēmeion) and ‘proof/demonstration’ (apodeixis) in ancient Stoic Read More
2023.03.6 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Celia Kathryn Hatherly, Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments, Lexington Books, 2022, 192pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781666904482. Reviewed by Thérèse-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America This book centers on metaphysics by means of a detailed analysis Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, an anxious grad student asks: I am sure there are topics on this, but it never gets old: how long after the submission is it appropriate to reach out to a journal to inquire about the status of the submission? 2 months? 3 months? 6 months? Read More
Black American music has a long tradition of keeping hope alive. W.E.B. Du Bois highlighted the importance of the “sorrow song”—the “rhythmic cry of the slave”—in chapter XIV of The Souls of Black Folk (1903), “not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the Read More
In this episode of the podcast, I chat to Anton Korinek about the economic impacts of GPT. Anton is a Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia and the Economics Lead at the Centre for AI Governance. He has researched widely on the topic of automation and labour markets. We talk about whether GPT Read More
Out in that vast dark we had to keep sight Of what brought us to that desert kingdom, Beneath which swam the darkest currency. Soldiers to the battlefield for oil Seems an imbalance of terms, but it was Deeper and older than black gold why we Went to Kuwait. We crossed an ocean on The…The post Electric Birds appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.” – Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[New Entry by Matthew Frise on March 27, 2023.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Matthew Frise replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
In this post, I explore how analogical modes of explanation have been used in empirical psychology to loop together data derived through experiments and descriptive explanation. Metaphor has been used to transcend the limitations of experiments on human subjects because it allows for framing higher-level interpretation of data through notions of purpose, constraints, and goals. Read More
“Works whose ideal doesn’t have as much living reality and, as it were, personality for the artist as does his mistress or his friend are best left unwritten. At any rate, they don’t become works of art.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Here’s a question: can we have a thread in which recently successful job applicants who have gotten TT jobs describe their own application process? In particular, I’m wondering about time spent on materials. How much time did you spend personalizing your cover letter, Read More
This APA Blog series is designed to help APA members to get to know APA staff and key leaders a little better. Two staff profiles were published in 2016, and we’ve decided to revive the series with the aim of helping to put a human face to the work of the APA. These profiles will Read More
“That Socrates belonged to his teaching, that his teaching ended in himself, that he himself was his teaching, that in the actual environment he was artistically what he himself taught — we have learned to recite that by rote, for it can hardly be said that people grasp it. Even the systematizers speak of Socrates Read More
“As long as you abide within my discourse, you are my students; and you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” —John 8.32 For decades, now, people have been trained to believe that securing a “job” is a reliable way to be free. In our trans-modern age,[1] the lie about…The post Satan Out of the Box: The Meaning of Labor, Today appeared first on VoegelinView.
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Here’s a question: can we have a thread in which recently successful job applicants who have gotten TT jobs describe their own application process? In particular, I’m wondering about time spent on materials. How much time did you spend personalizing your cover letter, Read More
This APA Blog series is designed to help APA members to get to know APA staff and key leaders a little better. Two staff profiles were published in 2016, and we’ve decided to revive the series with the aim of helping to put a human face to the work of the APA. These profiles will Read More
“The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.” – Theodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of New Music Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“As long as you abide within my discourse, you are my students; and you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” —John 8.32 For decades, now, people have been trained to believe that securing a “job” is a reliable way to be free. In our trans-modern age,[1] the lie about…The post Satan Out of the Box: The Meaning of Labor, Today appeared first on VoegelinView.
“The fact of spiritual stagnation should not be made the ground for judging all life’s possibilities from known possibilities. On the contrary, such stagnation should prove that however rich and multifarious the past may have been, it has not exhausted a tittle of the whole possibilities. From that which has been it is impossible to Read More
“The hypostasization of aspects into (conceptual) states that, at least socially and linguistically, are treated as though they were actual objects in themselves would seem to be a constant function of language. We not only talk of “yellowness,” “largeness,” “smallness” (even “size”), “heat,” or “cold” as though they were actual things (rather than aspects of Read More
Via Flickr A while ago, I wrote an extended analysis of John Stuart Mill’s defence of free speech. As noted in that piece, Mill is not, as he is sometimes perceived to be, a free speech absolutist. He thinks you can restrict some forms of speech, particularly forms of speech that incite violence, amount to Read More
“Flattening the Curve” was an incredibly successful meme during the early stages of the Covid epidemic. Unfortunately, it was based on a model that we can describe as the worst ever proposed in history (or maybe the second worst, after the one that assured Napoleon that invading Russia in Winter was a good idea). Here, Read More
The world of biblical analysis seems to have two poles in the public imagination. One popular, generally atheistic, and horribly ignorant: the gospels were written—this analysis goes—long after the death of Jesus and passed through oral transmission and are incredibly garbled and unreliable in their final composition. Moreover, they have the trappings of mythopoetic construction.…The post Luke as Historian appeared first on VoegelinView.
“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.” – Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” – Oscar Wilde, “The Children of the Poets” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.” – Friedrich Read More
[Revised entry by Robert Kirk on March 25, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Zombies in philosophy are imaginary creatures designed to illuminate problems about consciousness and its relation to the physical world. Unlike the ones in films or witchcraft, they are exactly like us in all physical respects but without conscious experiences: by definition Read More
[New Entry by Andrea Sangiovanni and Juri Viehoff on March 25, 2023.] The term “solidarity” first becomes prevalent in the early- to late-nineteenth century in France. Since then, it has always been used to describe a special relationship of unity and mutual indebtedness within a group. The term’s origins lie in French legal usage, in Read More
- Trash The traffic tears down this small hill – Two lanes turning right at the lights, And an occasional race or contest As they merge heading over the bridge – Mainly SUV’s, vans, some heavy trucks – Shooting by the bottles, plastic, cans, Paper, colouring the roadside grass. This I see, seemingly inconsequential, Of…The post Deus ex Machina appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal.” – G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Not knowing at what point destiny or death might arrest my zeal, I desired, in any case, to get an idea of everything, in order to discover the special bent of my natural abilities, and also to judge for myself what was worthy of cultivation.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
In this episode of the podcast, I chat to Olle Häggström. Olle is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. We talk about GPT and LLMs more generally. What are they? Are they intelligent? What risks do they pose or presage? Are we proceeding with the development of this technology Read More
“It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.” – Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
It is vital to preserve the right for individuals to have control over their online experiences. A way to ensure that peoples choices and preferences are respected by technology platforms is advocating end-to-end principles. This would represent a return to the original spirit of the internet, where users have more control over what they see Read More
The new face of the “Seneca Effect” blog on Substack. It is an attempt to circumvent the shadow ban imposed on the blog by the powers that be. Maybe it will do better on Substack than on the Google blogger platform, where it is now, although I am not sure: never underestimate the power Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I am an international student (ESL) currently completing an MA degree in a well-regarded terminal program in the US. I am reaching out to you for guidance and support as I recently received rejections from all 25 PhD programs I applied to, including Read More
Music is often claimed to be—and valued as—a “pure” art, one detached from the referents to the external world that we find in painting or literature. Music is thought to be abstract, dealing in patterns of sound that have a meaning independent of the meanings of verbal language. True, when music is married to a…The post On the Purity of Music appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Most present-day images — be they video images, paintings, products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized images — are literally images in which there is nothing to see. They leave no trace, cast no shadow, and have no consequences. The only feeling one gets from such images is that behind each one there Read More
“Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.” – Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Melissa Lane on March 22, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Ancient political philosophy is understood here to mean ancient Greek and Roman thought from the classical period of Greek thought in the fifth century BCE to the end of the Roman empire in the West in the fifth century CE, Read More
2023.03.4 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Neil Tennant, The Logic of Number, Oxford University Press, 2022, 363pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192846679. Reviewed by Will Stafford, University of Bristol The logicist provides a foundation for mathematics by introducing abstraction principles of a new kind, in natural-deduction form, that can effectively Read More
Images of bodies impact young people, especially young girls and women. The normative implications of those images—what a body ought to look like and what a body ought not to look like—affect their self-esteem. A 2021 exposé of internal research conducted by Facebook (now Meta) on its photo-sharing app Instagram revealed the company itself tracked Read More
“When one is made passive by defeatism, without doubt difficulties easily take effect, but exerting one’s self and invigorated, one is hard to defeat even for great calamities.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (7:53) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
From ChatGPT to Replika, AI is being touted as a tool to solve the loneliness epidemic. But is this just a false marketing promise, or perhaps something more sinister. In these habitually lonely times wanting someone to talk to, even if they’re just an AI chat bot, is understandable. But besides the emptiness of a Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I guess I’m looking for general advice here, as much as that is possible. A couple times on the market I’ve made it to the flyout round for an Assistant Prof post only to lose out to a much more senior candidate. I’m Read More
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” – Aristotle, Rhetoric Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
I At the end of a clear blue day, entwined honeysuckle & jasmine stamens lust for tasting, the hour loneliness lay open to the sky. You came to the garden—a breeze through rushes, syllables from the sea where falling pine needles fashioned a bed of wild broom, fennel & thyme. Listening to bees drunk on…The post Poets’ Cento appeared first on VoegelinView.
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.” – Frederick Douglass, “The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies (1857)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.” – Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
This post is a part of the Blog’s 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The APA Eastern Conference session covered in this post was organized by the Political Epistemology Network. The political world is what William James called “a blooming, buzzing confusion.” The size and complexity of modern Read More
The Last of Us is set in a dystopian apocalypse in which a brain controlling fungus has dominated the world. Such a world is reminiscent of the political idea of the State of Nature. However, the Last of Us is more overtly Hobbesian than that. The show’s portrayal of political change, safety, state legitimacy and Read More
Life can be good, in absolute (non-comparative) terms: something that one should be positively glad of, and that is worth promoting (all else equal). When death would deprive someone of a good future, it is comparatively bad (both for the individual, and simpliciter), and we accordingly have strong moral reasons—stemming from both person-directed and undirected Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I’ve got two related questions: 1. In grad school I heard that moving from a cc to a university is basically impossible. Is that true? If not, what will making such a move require? 2. Is there a way to gauge from job Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m a student preparing to apply to PhD programs in philosophy. Many programs specify that they want letters of recommendation from philosophers. My question is: for the purpose of recommendation letters, who counts as a “philosopher”? Does “philosopher” solely supervene over individuals with Read More
Some have suggested that the “very idea of an autistic person is a philosophical one” (Murray 2011, 9) and that the “subject of autism is rich with philosophical possibilities” (Anderson and Cushing 2013, 3). At the same time, however, “the philosophy of autism is not (or not yet) a subfield of philosophy” (Bölte and Richman Read More
As a comment to the recent decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, I propose here an excerpt from the chapter titled “The Evil Side of Collapse” of my book, “Before Collapse,” (2019). In the book, I argue that there is a way to Read More
Mrs Nevines’ bird sanctuary looks at first Like a meshed community of cages Where birds get better – or worse, End up in the world of her glass cases. At second glance, a white-faced owl Blinks and pivots at the neck (From north-north-east to roughly south) The two halves of a single cheek. But look…The post Mrs Nevines’ Bird Sanctuary, Co. Antrim appeared first on VoegelinView.
Any student of New Testament studies will be familiar with the names F.C. Baur and J.B. Lightfoot. Baur was a nineteenth German-Hegelian theologian and biblical critic who famously offered a thesis of Paul compatible with the post-Reformation hagiography of him, “Baur’s vision of Paul and his relationship with the early church was Hegelian and dialectical.…The post Was the Apostle Paul Really the First Reformer? appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. What stays him, usually, is the fear of the sacrifices involved. (Even to relinquish his chains seems like a sacrifice.) Yet everyone knows that nothing is accomplished without sacrifice.” Read More
“Should an authoritarian socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or to reorganize itself on principles of liberty.” – Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
2023.03.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews David Hume, David Hume: Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, 2 Vols., Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A. Box (eds.), Clarendon Press, 2021, 1200pp., $230.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198847090. Reviewed by Paul Russell, Lund University Looking across the distance of time to admire David Hume’s contributions and Read More
“Whoever doesn’t come to know Nature through love will never come to know her.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Throughout the America of the twenty-first century there is a strong sense that the media is biased and purely spreading propaganda in support of one of the two major political parties. For conservatives, most of the “mainstream media,” ranging from The New York Times to The Washington Post, to CNN, to Buzzfeed are simply the…The post The Good Old Days of the Good Old Boys appeared first on VoegelinView.
“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. Peace and quiet are dear to his heart, and victory no cause for rejoicing. If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing; If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.” – Read More
[Revised entry by Neil Lewis and Katrin Fischer on March 18, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] William of Auvergne or Paris, (ca.1180/90 – 1249), Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was one of the first wave of thinkers in the Latin West to engage with the writings on natural philosophy Read More
“Even when you are right, it is good to make concessions: people will recognize you were right but admire your courtesy.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Even when you are right, it is good to make concessions: people will recognize you were right but admire your courtesy.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[New Entry by Lauren Ross and James Woodward on March 17, 2023.] This entry discusses some accounts of causal explanation developed after approximately 1990. For a discussion of earlier accounts of explanation including the deductive-nomological (DN) model, Wesley Salmon’s statistical relevance and causal mechanical models, and unificationist models, see the general entry on scientific explanation. Read More
“Every philosophical, ethical, and political idea — its lifeline connecting it with its historical origins having been severed — has a tendency to become the nucleus of a new mythology, and this is one of the reasons why the advance of enlightenment tends at certain points to revert to superstition and paranoia. The majority principle… Read More
[Revised entry by Barry Dainton on March 17, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html, specious-present.html] In ordinary conscious experience, consciousness of time seems commonplace. For example, we are often aware of changes, movements, and successions unfolding over brief temporal intervals. How is this possible? Many different models of temporal consciousness have been proposed. Some Read More
[Revised entry by Liam Shields, Anne Newman, and Debra Satz on March 17, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] It is widely accepted that educational opportunities for children ought to be equal. This thesis follows from two observations about education and children: first, that education significantly influences a person’s life chances in terms of labor Read More
If you live in Florida or listen to the news, you have almost certainly heard the term “woke” and might wonder what it means. The short version is that it now means everything and nothing. The longer version involves looking at how “woke” has been captured and transformed into a rhetorical weapon. The most extensive Read More
Ask a student why they’re in college and their answer will most likely include something about securing a well-paying job, expanding their career options, or acquiring the knowledge necessary to be successful in life. The cultural narrative that has been fed to so many college students is that receiving higher education is just what you Read More
“The meaning of creativeness is to be found in the anticipation of the transfiguration of the world, not in the fixation of this world in objective perfection. Creativeness is a fight against the object world, a fight against matter and necessity…” – Nikolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Despite claims that readers would turn away from post-apocalyptic fiction during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the genre has continued to thrive. The popularity of post-apocalyptic narratives raises questions about why people are fascinated by fictional narratives of doom in times of trouble, and whether it is a form of escapism or a Read More
Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Graz Town: Graz Country: Austria Job Description: The Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz is offering 5 post-doctoral fellowships at University of Graz, Austria, for 3 months. Dates for stays can start as early as June 2023 or latest in March 2024, but ideally run from October Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am curious what the norms/conventions are for reporting your affiliation when changing jobs. For example, I currently work at institution A but am starting a new job in the fall at institution B. When writing down my affiliation—e.g., when submitting to journals Read More
From the “Proud Holobionts” blog Image created by Dall-E The idea that forests create rain has been known by peasants for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. The first scientific studies go back to Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), but the subject remains controversial. Nevertheless, we are starting to understand the deep and complex interactions between the atmosphere and Read More
The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with philosophers. The following is an edited excerpt from an interview with Justin Caouette. This interview has been edited for length. The full interview is available at What Is It Like to Be A Read More
“Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.” – Epictetus, The Enchiridion Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Iain McGilchrist comments in The Matter With Things that our moral intuitions often cannot survive extremely fanciful hypothetical situations nor imagining counterfactual imputations of omniscience. Our intuitions of all types have evolved for naturalistic situations. Such things can never be one hundred percent accurate, but we would not be here if our ancestors could not…The post Social Psychologists’ Attack on Intuition and Expertise appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Jung confuses instinct and habit. According to him, the collective unconscious is part of the psyche; the myths and archetypes are permanent engrams of the species. We hope we have shown that this collective unconscious is nothing of the sort and that, in fact, it is cultural, i.e., it is acquired.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Read More
“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Peter Hylton and Gary Kemp on March 16, 2023. Changes to: Bibliography] Willard Van Orman Quine (1908 – 2000) worked in theoretical philosophy and in logic. (In practical philosophy – ethics and political philosophy – his contributions are negligible.) He is perhaps best known for his arguments against Logical Empiricism (in particular, Read More
[Revised entry by Anna-Sofia Maurin on March 16, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Trope theory is the view that reality is (wholly or partly) made up from tropes. Tropes are things like the particular shape, weight, and texture of an individual object. Because tropes are particular, for two objects to ‘share’ a property Read More
As America faces collapsing banks, closing hospitals, and radioactive waste contaminating elementary schools, most Republicans are laser focused on their war on woke and pugilism against pronouns. This is eminently rational on their part since addressing these other problems would risk the ire of their financial backers, rejection by their base, and put them at Read More
The shock collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has erupted in a volley of finger pointing at central banks, regulators, venture capitalists and governments. However, this is only part of the story. Until we understand the cyclical nature of financial crises, and take a step back to contextualise our current situation, we will always be on Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: What’s the risk of putting the titles of one’s “in progress” or “under review” papers on one’s website? Sometimes I’ll see a website where someone has replaced the title of their paper with something to the effect of “title redacted for review”. And Read More
One of the most commonly discussed principles of moral and political philosophy — if not the most commonly discussed — is Mill’s Harm Principle. Introduced in Chapter 1 of his famous polemical essay, On Liberty, the Harm Principle is set out in the following way (all quotes are from a Wordsworth classics edition – page Read More
Love has inspired countless composers, some of whom have written pieces dedicated to, or directly inspired by, their own beloveds. Here are ten of the best musical love letters ever composed. 1. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Though his reputation rests on his big, long, and loud mythological operas, Richard Wagner was also capable of composing on a…The post Immortal Beloved: Musical Love Letters From the Great Composers appeared first on VoegelinView.
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” – Pittacus of Mytilene, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.” – Hannah Arendt, “Letter to James Baldwin (21 November 1962)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.” – Hannah Arendt, “Letter to James Baldwin (21 November 1962)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“To say “I was in the past” is not tenable. What existed in the past is not identical to this one. … To say “in the past I wasn’t” would not be tenable. This person is not different from whoever existed in previous times. … So, the views “I existed,” “I didn’t exist,” both or Read More
Progressives The title of this essay could be interpreted as claiming that Boebert and Greene’s culture war against “the progressives” and “the woke” is what got them into congress. While this is likely, what I mean is that progressives fought for the rights of women to vote and hold office and without them, Boerbert and Read More
Have we been making progress over history? Or is the world made of a fundamental essence that never changes? What is the meaning of time? And the timeless? Schopenhauer and Hegel famously did not get along. But their feud was philosophical, as well as personal, writes Joshua Dienstag. In the summer of 1820, Arthur Schopenhauer, Read More
Some things are absolutely bad: we have reason to prevent or avoid them, even at some (lesser) cost. Other things are merely comparatively bad: we have reason to want something else even more, but no reason to regard these things as intrinsically bad or worse than nothing at all. This is an important distinction. It Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: My partner, a non-academic who has seen me suffer through the ups and downs of the market for a few years now, made what I thought to be an excellent observation this morning after we debriefed about another intense interview. She noted that Read More
I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one of my duties was to expand the philosophy curriculum into areas beyond the Western tradition, and I set about building a course introducing students to the history of philosophy from a Read More
That’s the sound of unpractised hammering: Different from a nail hit hard, straight, head- To-head, with none of the light repetitive Clinks. And now, over the fence, the levering Squeak speaks of the nail drawn out: its slot The risk of diverting the next from true. All this, for me, is merely vicarious experience –…The post Nailing It appeared first on VoegelinView.
1 The angel leans on one knee, right palm and two fingers raised in blessing, the skirts of his red robe flow behind him, his wings stand upright in gold-brown elegance. The lady seems to be slightly hovering in her blue robe of perfection. 2 The green shoots of wheat reach up in the wind.…The post The Annunciation appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.36) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Jack Lyons on March 14, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The central problem in the epistemology of perception is that of explaining how perception could give us knowledge or justified belief about an external world, about things outside of ourselves. This problem has traditionally been viewed in terms of a Read More
“Greed, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.” – Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
As a student, I was never introduced to the work of Martinican philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. I read Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth on my own during my Ph.D. in Paris, and since then Fanon’s ideas have constantly accompanied and deeply shaped my own philosophical thinking. With one exception, Read More
“To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.” – John Stuart Mill, On Read More
In what was once very on brand, my adopted state of Florida has strong sunshine laws. In general terms, the public has extensive access to information about public institutions ranging from the minutes of university search committees to the doings of the governor. As a professor at Florida A&M University, I am familiar with operating Read More
Science is undeniably great as a predictive tool. But it’s also full of idealizations – false claims in the form of simplification, exaggeration, and outright distortion. That would seem to rule out scientific realism, the idea that science manages to uncover the fundamental structure of reality. But Elay Shech argues that by contextualizing scientific claims Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I plan to go on the job market for the first time this fall. What are some tips or things that you were not advised or warned about that you wished you were? Also, thinking about the number of documents that are needed Read More
Camille Robcis’s Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book takes its name from the concept of disalienation about which Frantz Fanon wrote his original medical dissertation that was rejected by his committee and later published as Black Skin, White Masks Read More
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol 10 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Ian Deweese-Boyd on March 13, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Virtually every aspect of self-deception, including its definition and paradigmatic cases, is a matter of controversy among philosophers. Minimally, self-deception involves a person who (a) as a consequence of some motivation or emotion, seems to acquire and maintain some false belief Read More
[Revised entry by Martha Bolton on March 13, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Mary Shepherd (1777 – 1847) advocates a systematic metaphysics and theory of knowledge which were highly regarded by her contemporaries. Well versed in the doctrines of leading eighteenth century British empiricists, she finds them unable to sustain scientific inquiry, everyday Read More
[Revised entry by Thomas Hofweber on March 13, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A number of important philosophical problems are at the intersection of logic and ontology. Both logic and ontology are diverse fields within philosophy and, partly because of this, there is not one single philosophical problem about the relation between them. In Read More
“When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel for the honour and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.” – Thomas Paine, Read More
Aaron James Wendland is organizing a conference on the value of philosophy in light of the events in Ukraine during the last year. It has attracted lots of attention due to its theme, “What Good is Philosophy? The Role of the Academy in a Time of Crisis,” and speakers. The following interview explores the conference’s Read More
“In order to help another effectively I must understand more than he – yet first of all surely I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him. If, however, I am disposed to plume myself on my greater understanding, it is because Read More
Everyone seems to think Nietzsche fits with their political agenda. Contemporary right-wing figures like Jordan Peterson and Dinesh D’Souza see in Nietzsche the great diagnostician of the decadence that would follow the death of God, and use his insights to dismiss the “woke” left as being driven by resentiment towards the powerful. On the left, Read More
In our two most recent “how can we help you?” threads, two comments were posted (by the same reader?) on whether to accept a reviewer assignment for a paper that they already recommended rejecting at another journal: I’ve been asked to review a paper in a journal that I’ve already reviewed in a different journal Read More
Over 40 years ago, in Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality, Iris Marion Young gave us a foundational understanding of how essentialist pseudoscience impacted experiences of embodied sexism. Young’s sophisticated argument introduced not only how we could use phenomenology to understand gendered conditioning but also gave us alternative Read More
“Everything that is not absolutely necessary to your happiness has been removed from the visual horizon. The dream is not only of happiness, but of happiness conceived in perfect isolation.” – Zadie Smith, “Find Your Beach” (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
As many coming-of-age stories do, Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield begins with a lonely child trying to find his way in the world. As a boy—lost, alone, and abused by his stepfather—David Copperfield is sent to boarding school, where he is treated no better by the children around him. Poor David is bullied mercilessly until an…The post Remember Me at My Best: Memory and Forgiveness in David Copperfield appeared first on VoegelinView.
“There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way of breeding sheep, or buying and selling land. These are the economists of morality, and really all morality without philosophy, no matter how sophisticated and sublimely poetical, always retains a certain intolerant and Read More
2023.03.2 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Brian Leftow, Anselm’s Argument: Divine Necessity, Oxford University Press, 2022, 317pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192896926. Reviewed by Gaven Kerr, St Patrick’s Pontifical University Anselm’s Argument: Divine Necessity is a sequel to Brian Leftow’s earlier work, God and Necessity. In Leftow’s own words, he takes Read More
“The man of Virtue rests without thought, moves without plan. He has no use for right and wrong, beautiful and ugly. To share profit with all things within the four seas is his happiness, to look after their needs is his peace.” – Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 12) Originally appeared Read More
Florida currently requires a concealed weapon permit to legally carry a concealed weapon. Getting a permit requires receiving proper training (typically a four-hour class), a background check (with fingerprints), and paying a fee. I have been through this process and was even required to complete the training despite having held hunting licenses and a concealed Read More
Benito Mussolini in 1922: is this the face of evil? Maybe, but if you check carefully, there was nothing behind the mask. Mussolini was just a magnet for evil forces much larger than him. As a devoted reader of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories, I have always found the idea of evil deities fascinating. The existence Read More
On the eve of the “end of history,” Napoleon and his Grande Armée rolled into the small but rowdy university town of Jena. A professor of philosophy, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, caught a glimpse of the “world soul riding out of the city on reconnaissance” as he later wrote a friend. The next day, Napoleon’s…The post Inspiration and Tragedy in Jena appeared first on VoegelinView.
“I would only believe in a God who knows how to dance.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Just as the trunk of a banana tree is nothing when split into pieces, in the same way too, the ‘I’ is not a real entity when hunted out analytically.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:74) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“[Housework] is undoubtedly a great blessing, too, because it keeps me sane, it forces me to live a regular life & is in general good for me although I curse it every day.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Letter to Lee Malcolm (5 June 1948)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” – George Eliot, Middlemarch Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Boudewijn de Bruin, Lisa Herzog, Martin O’Neill, and Joakim Sandberg on March 10, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Finance and philosophy may seem to be worlds apart. But they share at least one common ancestor: Thales of Miletus. Thales is typically regarded as the first philosopher, but he was also a Read More
“One will not banish emotional disturbance or arrive at significant joy through great wealth, fame, celebrity, or anything else which is a result of vague and indefinite causes.” – Epicurus, Vatican Sayings Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
There is this passage from Camus’s The Rebel that I taught to my students a couple of years ago and has stuck with me ever since. Talking about rebellion against The Absurd, Camus says that “the logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of Read More
There is this passage from Camus’s The Rebel that I taught to my students a couple of years ago and has stuck with me ever since. Talking about rebellion against The Absurd, Camus says that “the logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of Read More
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth — certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, Read More
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth — certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m a PhD candidate working in early modern philosophy who has recently received about a dozen rejections from early modern conferences and no acceptances. Several of the CfPs were exclusively for graduate students, although others were also open to early career academics. I’m Read More
Michael Kirley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in the philosophy of action. He also has interests in moral psychology, normative ethics, and ancient philosophy. What excites you about philosophy? The questions people care most about are philosophical in character, and nothing Read More
“I have never seen a class so deeply demoralised, so incurably debased by selfishness, so corroded within, so incapable of progress, as the English bourgeoisie. For it nothing exists in this world, except for the sake of money, itself not excluded. It knows no bliss save that of rapid gain, no pain save that of Read More
Iain McGilchrist, in The Matter With Things, notes that one conception of God and the divine is that He created by withdrawing, by making a space. This is related to Lao Tzu’s Tao De Ching that comments that the essence of a cup is the hole it creates and encloses, just as a house is…The post Creation by Inhibition, Withdrawal, and Forgetting appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Courageous is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but also he who overcomes pleasures.” – Democritus, Fragments, B214 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.” – John Stuart Mill, Autobiography Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
The following essay was published in The Philosopher, The New Basics. Society. Spring 2022. At the turn of the twentieth century, the way time was told shifted in a number of significant ways. The long process of adopting a global standard for time was becoming widely felt. Rather than setting clocks via local observations of the position Read More
The topic of colour gives rise to numerous philosophical, aesthetic and psychological questions. In this interview with leading art historian and BAFTA nominated broadcaster, Dr James Fox, we explore the fascinating story of colour, and the profound impact it holds in shaping our thoughts, feelings and actions. For those able to experience it, colour is inescapable. Read More
The latest content update at utilitarianism.net has: Expanded the practical ethics chapter to explain utilitarianism’s implications for action guidance in more detail, including how the canonical distinction between a utilitarian criterion of rightness and recommended decision procedure means that counterproductively “calculating utilities” is not an implication of utilitarianism, whereas “respecting commonsense norms” plausibly is. Added Read More
A reader writes in: I have been on the job market for a few years and am seriously looking into quitting the profession this year. The alternative is that I hold out for another year or two in a visiting position. I’d appreciate hearing your readers’ thoughts on whether the job market is likely to Read More
“Among the many and enormous advantages of efficient automatic machinery is this: it is completely foolproof. But every gain has to be paid for: The automatic machine is fool-proof; but just because it is fool-proof it is also grace-proof. The man who tends such a machine is impervious to every form of aesthetic inspiration, whether Read More
Given that progressive rock tends to be literary and intelligent, it should not be shocking that there are also many great books coming out about the genre. Here are several recent books that every prog rock music lover should own. Amazingly enough, I’m one of the conservatives who also loves progressive rock music. To…The post The Prog Rock Collector appeared first on VoegelinView.
“To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.” – Martha Nussbaum, Love’s Knowledge Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.” – Seneca, To Helvia, On Consolation Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bella Ramsey remarked, “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” explaining that she always enjoyed being mistaken for a boy, and that “being gendered isn’t something that I particularly like.” The rising star of HBO’s The Last of Us wore a chest binder while filming Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Recently, I have been invited to give a fair number of teaching and research presentations recently outside of my department and I’m not sure how to list them on my CV, or whether to list them at all. They include the following types Read More
2023.03.1 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Gloria Frost, Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 239pp., $99.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781009225403. Reviewed by Can Laurens Löwe, Humboldt University of Berlin A glass breaks because it is dropped, water boils because it is heated, dough becomes bread because Read More
Zanna Van Loon, John Steckley, Toon Van Hal, Andy Peetermans, eds. 2023. Anchored in ink: Pierre-Philippe Potier’s Elementa Grammaticae Huronicae (1745), a Jesuit grammar of Wendat. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. 446 p.ISBN 978-3-86956-516-3. DOI : https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-51306Book in open accessPublisher’s website This book serves as a gateway to the Elementa grammaticae Huronicae, an eighteenth-century grammar of the Read More
Mount Holyoke College’s Philosophy Club has been active for at least 40 years. The origin of the club is lost in history but is both remade by new members and continues historically beneficial practices. There is no formal advisory position, but department members work to ensure that at least one faculty member shows up to Read More
“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And I’d rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.” – Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
The shades of night engulf the beaming day As metal and plastic cars race each free way. Was our life always fast? The forlorn moon can’t wait to have a word. All nectar drains before the head is stirred. The rising sun, which scouts for white egrets, Espies a funeral march. Each track the DJ…The post Rushed Gods appeared first on VoegelinView.
“All good causes are mutually helpful. The benefits accruing from this movement for the equal rights of woman are not confined or limited to woman only. They will be shared by every effort to promote the progress and welfare of mankind everywhere and in all ages.” – Frederick Douglass, “Give Women Fair Play (1888)” Originally Read More
“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.” – Thomas Paine, Letter to the Addressers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Andrea Falcon on March 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Causality is at the heart of Aristotle’s scientific and philosophical enterprise. Each Aristotelian science consists in the causal investigation of a specific department of reality. If successful, such an investigation results in causal knowledge; that is, knowledge of the relevant or Read More
With the rapid development of chatbots and other AI systems, questions about whether they will ever gain true understanding, become conscious, or even develop a feeling agency have become more pressing. When it comes to making sense of these qualities in humans, our ability for counterfactual thinking is key. The existence of alternative worlds where Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a PhD student asks: I’m a graduate student and I’ve submitted my paper to many conferences, including the graduate conference. I’m wondering if there is any chance that my ideas will be stolen and published before I publish them. I have this question because I’ve heard Read More
There is a categorical rift between classical and modern (progressive or avant-garde) painting, for modern painting as such ceases to be “imitation of nature” in the classical sense of the expression, by splitting mechanically two complementary poles: our feeling (or subjective experience) of things and the (objective) concept we forge of things. A historical dialectic…The post True Painting and the Problem of Imitation appeared first on VoegelinView.
“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Maarten Franssen, Gert-Jan Lokhorst, and Ibo van de Poel on March 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it, philosophy should Read More
[Revised entry by Mark Colyvan on March 6, 2023. Changes to: Bibliography] One of the most intriguing features of mathematics is its applicability to empirical science. Every branch of science draws upon large and often diverse portions of mathematics, from the use of Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics to the use of differential geometry in Read More
[Revised entry by Mark Siderits on March 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The Buddha (fl. circa 450 BCE) is the individual whose teachings form the basis of the Buddhist tradition. These teachings, preserved in texts known as the Nikāyas or Āgamas, concern the quest for liberation from suffering. While the ultimate aim of Read More
“Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is a contribution to the grammar of the proposition.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader Read More
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They are not satisfied with simply despising and condemning their neighbour themselves, they want the condemnation to be universal and supreme: that is, that all men should rise as one against the condemned, and Read More
Two weeks ago Eduourd Machery argued against the idea that common sense is a good guide to reality. Common sense relies on intuition; and intuitions are unreliable, vary greatly across cultures and are sensitive to seemingly irrelevant factors such as the wording of a particular thought experiment. This week Nevin Climenhaga challenges this view, arguing Read More
In our January “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: This is a request, rather than a question. Could we make a chart with all of the unhelpful, problematic things we see through the job market process for schools–to generate collective knowledge? e.g. Some schools are atrocious with spousal hiring. Some schools pitch Read More
With my work bringing me back in touch with public high school education, and as someone recently acquainted with a third decade of mostly continuous consciousness, connecting with my students has been eye-opening. The immortal hot topic among staff is cell phones. The students are, to put it lightly, addicted. They have had access to Read More
[Revised entry by Christopher Smeenk, Frank Arntzenius, and Tim Maudlin on March 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html, toy-models.html] Time travel has been a staple of science fiction. With the advent of general relativity it has been entertained by serious physicists. But, especially in the philosophy literature, there have been arguments that time Read More
For readers of Tolkien, one of the most interesting and rewarding aspects of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings is their apolitical approach to human reality. The different races that populate the novels do battle over good and evil. While some, like the Orcs, have been corrupted from the start by Melkor (later…The post Good and Evil in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings appeared first on VoegelinView.
“The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she’s going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I’ve searched TPC archives but didn’t find a thread on “Tips for Writing Conference Paper Abstracts.” Replies to this as a thread would be helpful. I was recommended this source years ago, but it’s not philosophy-specific [https://history.ncsu.edu/grad/conference_abstracts.php] We actually had a thread on Read More
The notion of the Russian soul – this ineffable essence that defines the Russian people – has its origin in figures like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev. Despite this literary pedigree, these days it’s animated in the speeches of Vladimir Putin, stoking Russia’s national exceptionalism and anti-Western sentiment. But even though we can’t separate Russian politics Read More
Alice Huang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto. She is interested in social and formal epistemology and curious about applications of computational methods to philosophy. What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? In philosophy, my favorite thing that I’ve written is a paper called “A normative comparison of threshold views through Read More
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Iain McGilchrist in The Matter With Things refers to a study where subjects were asked to evaluate two scenarios. One described a woman giving a friend a cup of tea to which she had accidentally added poison, thinking it was sugar. In the other scenario, the woman gave her friend what she thought was poisoned…The post Realism is Needed for Moral Institutions appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
One iron rule of technology is that any technology that can be used for pornography will be used for pornography. Another is that any technology that can be used for grifting will be used for grifting. The latest grift involves people using AI to generate science-fiction stories in an attempt to sell them to publishers. Read More
“In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference. Prior to the advent of this cultural reconciliation, literature and art were essentially alienation, sustaining and protecting the contradiction — the unhappy consciousness of the divided world, the defeated Read More
Following Eric Weinstein’s interview on how String Theory culture has stifled innovation in theoretical physics, longstanding critic of String Theory, Peter Woit, takes aim at the theory itself. He argues that String Theory has become a degenerative research project, becoming increasingly complicated and, at the same time, removed from empirical reality. Even the remaining string Read More
The Aramis project was an attempt to create a sort of “micro-metro” system designed for rapid urban transportation in Paris, supposed to replace personal cars. Starting in 1969, it failed after 17 years of attempts. Seen in retrospect, it couldn’t have worked for the reason that dooms most new technologies: cost. The Aramis line started Read More
This post will set out three arguments for consequentialism (or against deontic constraints), in order of increasing abstraction. You should probably accept all three. Utilitarian Pre-commitment vs Deontological Defection From behind a veil of ignorance, everyone in the situation would rationally endorse killing one to save five, since that markedly increases their chances of survival. Read More
A reader from Toronto Metropolitan University wrote in encouraging me to share this ad for 4 postdocs for Black scholars at their university, which of course I’m happy to do. Here are some of the details: TMU is implementing this program with the goals of building a more diverse and inclusive academe, and supporting the Read More
A reader from Toronto Metropolitan University wrote in encouraging me to share this ad for 4 postdocs for Black scholars at their university, which of course I’m happy to do. Here are some of the details: TMU is implementing this program with the goals of building a more diverse and inclusive academe, and supporting the Read More
Kaílah Jeffries, a Program Coordinator for the Cultivating Underrepresented Students of Philosophy (CUSP) program at Penn State University, wrote in to share the following information about their Summer Institute: I wanted to reach out to let you know that we have opened applications for our Summer Institute, which will take place in person from June 4-10, 2023. The Philosophy Department at Read More
Kaílah Jeffries, a Program Coordinator for the Cultivating Underrepresented Students of Philosophy (CUSP) program at Penn State University, wrote in to share the following information about their Summer Institute: I wanted to reach out to let you know that we have opened applications for our Summer Institute, which will take place in person from June 4-10, 2023. The Philosophy Department at Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Should you write letters of recommendations for undergraduate students who took you for a 300-student lecture, whose work you didn’t personally grade and with whom you had no interaction? I’d have thought the answer is obviously no, but then I wonder whether this Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Should you write letters of recommendations for undergraduate students who took you for a 300-student lecture, whose work you didn’t personally grade and with whom you had no interaction? I’d have thought the answer is obviously no, but then I wonder whether this Read More
Roland Barthes once wrote of the disturbing effect of the point-of-view shot from the eyes of a dead man in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr: “The camera moves from house to cemetery recording what the dead man sees: such is the extreme limit at which representation is outplayed; the spectator can no longer take up any Read More
In the canon of Ludwig van Beethoven’s works, the Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Opus 60, stands as a singularly neglected and underrated masterpiece. Many would be surprised to hear me describe the Fourth Symphony as a “masterpiece,” as it is often treated as a lesser work when it is not outright ignored. Although…The post Beethoven’s Fourth: The Underrated Symphony appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to the present.” – Albert Camus, The Rebel Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“All decisions concerning networks, screens, information or communication are serial in character, partial, fragmentary, fractal. A mere succession of partial decisions, a microscopic series of partial sequences and objectives, constitute as much the photographer’s way of proceeding as that of Telecomputer Man in general, or even that called for by our own most trivial television Read More
We live in an era in which “gender” has become a political football, in which the broadening legitimacy of same-sex marriage, as well as the rise of trans and nonbinary visibility and rights, has sparked a reactionary entrenchment and defense of traditional, naturalized identities and family arrangements stemming primarily from the Catholic establishment and the Read More
“That person is and remains unpopular who thinks a thought through to the end. That is why Socrates was unpopular, notwithstanding he used no technical terms; for to keep a hold of his ‘ignorance’ requires more vital effort than the whole of Hegel’s philosophy.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy Town: Warsaw Country: Poland Job Description: Call for Applications – Research Position in Philosophy of Perception & Cognitive Science Position: Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor Duration: 12 months with a option of extension for up to 12 more months Number of positions: 1 (full time) Read More
One year on, the war in Ukraine continues to dominate the headlines. As Putin continues to admonish NATO’s thirst for expansion, and Western leaders maintain their support for their Ukrainian counterparts, numerous questions remain. Why is the war stuck in a stalemate? How will it end? And what long-term ramifications could it have for the Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Why doesn’t anyone give honest grad school application advice? It’s pretty much common knowledge, and confirmed by accessible online data (programs’ grad student list that displays their background), that prestige simply matters more than anything else in applications. Despite this, it’s told as Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Is there a norm on how much of a book chapter contribution to an edited volume can overlap with material published (or to be published) by a journal? I feel like philosophers often “recycle” their own writings but I wonder if there are Read More
2023.02.6 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Juan Comesaña, Being Rational and Being Right, Oxford University Press, 2020, 222pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198847717. Reviewed by Adam Marushak, South China Normal University Suppose you’re hungry and your friend offers you what looks to be a piece of candy. Upon taking a bite, Read More
2023.02.2.7 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Artūrs Logins, Normative reasons: between reasoning and explanation, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 241pp., $99.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781316513774. Reviewed by Daniel Drucker, University of Texas at Austin Once you believe in normative facts, facts about what we ought to do, what’s fitting to believe, and Read More
“What happens in poetry happens never or always. Otherwise it isn’t really poetry.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction Read More
Registration for the 2023 Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at Ganzaga University in Spokane Washington, running from April 19-22, can be FOUND HERE. The Program for the meeting is AVAILABLE HERE. Originally appeared on Ancient Philosophy Society Read More
I called this image “The most amazing graph of the 21st century,” and I argued that the rapid inversion of the declining trend of crude oil production is the cause of the return of the US government to an aggressive foreign policy. But the vagaries of oil production in the US haven’t ceased to amaze Read More
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Why read Cotton Mather? Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema – each of them leading experts on Cotton Mather – have contributed something very special and worthwhile to the reemergence of Matherian studies with their recent publication of A Cotton Mather Reader by Yale University Press. This incredible new book contains their powerful introduction followed by a…The post Will the Real Cotton Mather Please Stand Up? appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“If the problem is something in your own character, who’s stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it’s that you’re not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it?” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.47) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Reg was pleased that, finally, he was now retired from his job in the Royal Mail Central Delivery Office in Birmingham. He didn’t miss the repetitive work, nor his colleagues in the office, with whom he’d never been friends. His pension, while modest, was sufficient for his purposes. His needs, like his life as a Read More
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Iain McGilchrist is a philosopher, psychiatrist, and neuroscientist with a key interest in brain lateralization, the division of the brain into right and left hemispheres and the different tasks and roles of each. He draws out the implications of this for philosophy, life, science, and the culture at large. In a normal healthy person, the…The post Brain Lateralization and the Limits of Kant’s Moral Theory appeared first on VoegelinView.
“In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Characterizations of Existentialism Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.” – Thomas Paine, First Principles of Government Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“Whenever I try to think about Logic, my thoughts are so vague that nothing ever can crystallize out. What I feel is the curse of all those who have only half a talent; it is like a man who leads you along a dark corridor with a light and just when you are in the Read More
Lorenzo Cigana & Frans Gregersen, ed. 2023. Structuralism as one – structuralism as many – Studies in Structuralisms. Copenhagen: Gads Forlag. 560 p. ISBN 9788773044476Publisher’s website This book includes 14 contributions to the study of structuralism as a historical current in the history of European ideas and more particularly in the study of language. The Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: What is the protocol for when a journal (accidentally) reveals identities in a blind peer review? I’ve experienced this a few times lately, from both sides: As an author, I got the reviewer’s comments and could still see their name. As a reviewer, Read More
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Andriy Bilenkyy is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, his research is situated at the intersection of aesthetics, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. In his dissertation, Andriy focuses on themes, the cognitively and aesthetically significant properties that we seem Read More
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“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as Read More
I haven’t asked many questions of my own on the Cocoon for a while, but today I have a few. I’m curious about the process for publishing a ‘trade book’, that is, a book pitched toward a general audience. I have a couple of ideas for one, but don’t know much about the process for Read More
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, mentorship, and best papers at the association’s 2022 international conference: Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award Gerald Horne Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award Nkiru Nzegwu Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Activist Intellectual and Read More
[Revised entry by Joan Bagaria on January 31, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, ZF.html] Set theory is the mathematical theory of well-determined collections, called sets, of objects that are called members, or elements, of the set. Pure set theory deals exclusively with sets, so the only sets under consideration are those whose members are Read More
[Revised entry by Gareth Matthews and Amy Mullin on January 31, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The philosophy of childhood has recently come to be recognized as an area of inquiry analogous to the philosophy of science, the philosophy of history, the philosophy of religion, and the many other “philosophy of” subjects that are Read More
[Revised entry by Paul Thagard on January 31, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. Its intellectual origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in several fields began to develop theories of mind based on complex representations Read More
January 2023 marks the first month of a new year for VOEGELINVIEW. After the yearlong transformation of the journal into a general-purpose arts and humanities publication with a strong emphasis on reviews and intellectual and cultural criticism, our identity is now that of a public journal of the “higher criticism.” Our content is meant to…The post VoegelinView in Review: January 2023 appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Ethics increases the range of what it is about ourselves that we can will—extending it from our actions to the motives and character traits and dispositions from which they arise. We want to be able to will the sources of our actions down to the very bottom.” – Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere Originally Read More
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“A state in which “this” and “that” no longer find their opposites is called the hinge of the Way. When the hinge is fitted into the socket, it can respond endlessly. Its right, then, is a single endlessness, and its wrong, too, is a single endlessness.” – Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. Read More
“Keep this truth ever before you — Ignorance never did any one any harm, error alone is fatal, and we do not lose our way through ignorance but through self-confidence.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
One of the most useful metaphors for driving scientific and engineering progress has been that of the “machine.” But in light of our increased understanding of biology, evolution, intelligence, and engineering we must re-examine the life-as-machine metaphor with fair, up-to- date definitions. Such a process is allowing us to see that living things are in Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: How do people working in small departments brainstorm research ideas? I work in a teaching-oriented small department, and people work in quite different areas. I often encounter small ideas and thoughts in my research such as “x is interesting. I wonder if anyone Read More
Susan Freymiller deVillier, Master Instructor and Chairperson in the Department of Leadership Education, connects with a student in class at Culver Academies. In the fall of 1986, Culver Academies offered its first courses in the newly formed Department of Leadership Education. On the occasion of its inception, then Superintendent of Schools, Dean Ralph Manuel, said, Read More
Charity and solidarity! What responsibilities do nonprofits have towards Ukraine? In a speech to the UN General Assembly in the fall of 2022, President Biden called on the UN to stand in solidarity with Ukraine. At least 1,000 companies have left Russia because of Putin’s brutal unprovoked war on Ukraine. Some companies left because of sanctions. Others left for moral Read More
“Each system or explanation works as well as any other, but none really is congruent; there is always a part left over, and in the night that small unexplained part or fact grows like the mustard seed or the leaven until it is the whole loaf or landscape by morning. It’s as if the experience Read More
Today 188 countries of the world have a constitution. This suggests that without a constitution no nation can aspire to be successful or even survive in a globalized world. The modern idea of constitutionalism stipulates that neither individual freedom nor the division of power can be effectively established outside a constitutional framework. It is taken…The post Law of Nature or Law of Reason? A case for Hungary’s Historical Constitution appeared first on VoegelinView.
“The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
“Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.” – Bertrand Russell, Justice in War-Time Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
Shadowy organizations said to be engaged in world domination are often depicted as worshiping evil deities. The image above shows a group of Templar Knights adoring a statue of the demon Baphomet. It looks silly, but if you are serious about world domination, you should consider Baphomet — or some equivalent evil deity — as Read More
“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.” This sentence from Goldfinger (1959), encapsulates the essence of the Bond novels, according to Jeremy Black in the updated edition of his work The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times…The post 007: The Timeless Story of a Blunt Instrument appeared first on VoegelinView.
“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.” This sentence from Goldfinger (1959), encapsulates the essence of the Bond novels, according to Jeremy Black in the updated edition of his work The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times…The post 007: The Timeless Story of a Blunt Instrument appeared first on VoegelinView.
“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Sophie-Grace Chappell and Nicholas Smyth on January 28, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Bernard Williams (1929 – 2003) was a leading influence in philosophical ethics in the latter half of the twentieth century. He rejected the codification of ethics into moral theories that views such as Kantianism and (above all) utilitarianism Read More
[Revised entry by Elizabeth Anderson on January 28, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] John Dewey (1859 – 1952) lived from the Civil War to the Cold War, a period of extraordinary social, economic, demographic, political and technological change. During his lifetime the United States changed from a rural to an urban society, from an Read More
“I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.” – Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“The sage never has a mind of his own; he considers the minds of the common people to be his mind.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Mair tr. (Ch 49) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Mario Gómez-Torrente on January 28, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Alfred Tarski (1901 – 1983) described himself as “a mathematician (as well as a logician, and perhaps a philosopher of a sort)” (1944, p. 369). He is widely considered as one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century (often regarded Read More
“The mind is not positioned in the sense faculties, nor in form or the other aggregates, nor in the space in between. The mind is found neither internally nor externally, nor anywhere else either. What is not in the body nor elsewhere, neither intermingled nor separate anywhere, that is nothing. Therefore living beings are inherently Read More
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The standard view of evolution is that it’s a process guided by randomness, and hence its results, as amazing as they are, are meaningless. But if we think of our genes as a kind of text, then we can understand evolution as a process of interpretation, and reinterpretation. And interpretation implies meaning. Organisms and their Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: Two questions about job market etiquette: 1) Is it considered “rude,” “in poor taste,” or in violation of relevant norms to leave a job after only one year? One the one hand, I believe in employee freedom in a labor market; on the Read More
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“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.” – Oscar Wilde, “A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Aaron Copland (1900–1990) enjoys a reputation as America’s most esteemed composer of classical music. Much of his music is also said to embody a sense of Americana, a quality that is too rarely defined with any precision beyond the feeling of “wide open spaces” and the use of certain American folksongs as thematic material. This…
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[Revised entry by Jessica Wilson on January 18, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Determinables and determinates are in the first instance type-level properties that stand in a distinctive specification relation: the ‘determinable-determinate’ relation (for short, ‘determination’). For example, color is a determinable having red, blue, and other specific shades of color as determinates; Read More
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“There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology is a logical emotion, the counterpart of philosophy, enthusiasm for chemical knowledge; for grammar is surely only the philosophical part of the universal art of dividing and joining.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments Originally appeared Read More
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“To deconstruct is to de-position without repositioning. Deconstruction sets the oppositional terms in motion — and retains its force only as long as the terms remain in motion.” – Samuel R. Delany, “Neither the First Word nor the Last on Deconstruction…” (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“To deconstruct is to de-position without repositioning. Deconstruction sets the oppositional terms in motion — and retains its force only as long as the terms remain in motion.” – Samuel R. Delany, “Neither the First Word nor the Last on Deconstruction…” (via thirdity) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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2023.01.6 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews David Gauthier, Rational Deliberation: Selected Writings, Susan Dimock, Claire Finkelstein, and Christopher Morris (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2022, 338pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192842992. Reviewed by Paul Hurley, Claremont McKenna College, The Claremont Colleges Most philosophy books, even most collections of essays, capture a philosopher’s Read More
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2023.01.7 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jon Stewart, An Introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University Press, 2022, 277pp., $100.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192842930. Reviewed by Reed Winegar, Fordham University This book provides a highly readable introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, focused in Read More
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Recently, the IAI released Bernardo Kastrup’s piece, ‘The Lunacy of “Machine Consciousness”‘ where he reflected on a recent disagreement with Susan Schneider at January’s IAI Live debate ‘Consciousness in the machine’. Susan Schneider responds to Bernardo Kastrup’s critique of her position, and argues for the ‘wait and see’ approach to machine consciousness. The idea of conscious Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: In response to the VAP Treadmill thread, Patrick said the following: In addition, based on anecdotal evidence as well as comments I’ve read elsewhere on this issue: being a VAP and having a decent publication record doesn’t always trump a freshly minted PhD Read More
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In some ways this is a standard course on Buddhist Philosophy & Religion. The title Buddhist Tradition (I expanded it to Traditions) was given by another—an excellent—teacher. This is one of a number of courses that fits the bill of diversifying philosophy and engaging non-Western thought, hopefully, across Departments of Philosophy. San Francisco State University Read More
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“It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.” – Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In the daft heaven of the planetarium, stars and galaxies streaked away from us expanding in multiples of ten ad infinitum, while a soothing, booming voice spoke of space and wonder, until our minds grew dull from numbers and din and brilliant distraction. Outside the museum were…
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[Revised entry by Margaret Kohn and Kavita Reddy on January 17, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. At least since the Crusades and the conquest of the Americas, political theorists have used theories of justice, contract, and natural law to Read More
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“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Ignorance is the cause of fear.” – Seneca, Natural Questions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The following is a revised reflection of a post on Drucilla Cornell for the Frantz Fanon Foundation. It is posted here because of the importance of Drucilla Cornell in the history of Africana and Feminist Philosophy. I awoke one morning in mid-December 2022 to Thelonious Monk’s performance of Duke Ellington’s “I Didn’t Know About You.” Read More
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Does consciousness only arise in biological beings? Or, is it possible that a computer that observes, interacts, and represents its own internal state to itself might also give rise to consciousness? These were some of the questions posed to Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Schneider and Donald Hoffman in a recent debate for the IAI, ‘Consciousness in Read More
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2023.01.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Nicholas D. Smith, Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 182pp., $99.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781316515532. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Baima, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University When faced with anything painful or pleasurable, anything bringing glory or disrepute, Read More
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2023.01.4 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews David Gauthier, Hobbes & Political Contractarianism: Selected Writings, Susan Dimock, Claire Finkelstein, and Christopher W. Morris (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2022, 263pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192843005. Reviewed by Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University This splendid collection draws together and adds to David Gauthier’s Read More
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2023.01.5 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Thomas M. Osborne, Jr. Thomas Aquinas on Virtue, Cambridge University Press, 2022. 233pp. $99.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781316511749. Reviewed by Rebecca K. DeYoung, Calvin University In this book, Thomas Osborne offers a detailed commentary on the questions on virtue in Aquinas’s Summa theologiae I–II, qq. Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am curious about the mechanics and strategy of asking for a retention raise. I am a TT assistant professor. I might receive a job offer soon for another TT position. I would be willing to take the new job, but I would Read More
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“Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.” – Isocrates, Ad Demonicum Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Sylvia Berryman on January 7, 2023. Changes to: Bibliography] Democritus, known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of ‘cheerfulness,’ was one of the two founders of ancient atomist theory. He elaborated a system originated by his teacher Leucippus into a materialist account of the natural Read More
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“When we speak of values, we speak under the inspiration, and through the optics, of life. Life itself urges us to determine values. Life itself values through us when we determine values.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Mark T. Mitchell. Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class. Front Porch Republic Books, 2022. In his aptly entitled Plutocratic Socialism, Mark T. Mitchell offers a timely analysis of the union between plutocratic elites and woke socialists in America. This new book will provoke meaningful discussions in…
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“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[New Entry by Kevin Aho on January 6, 2023.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Kevin Aho replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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For those of us who are curious about philosophy and keep studying it, we are often part of events that put us to the test. A common scenario can be described more or less as follows. Imagine you are at a dinner table, having fun with some friends on a Saturday night, and the topic Read More
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“A definition, if it is to be called perfect, must explain the inmost essence of a thing, and must take care not to substitute for this any of its properties.” – Baruch Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, and the former Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education. He has served on the High-Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission and other advisory bodies. His past work includes AI Ethics (MIT Press), Introduction to Read More
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“Happy, if we can unite [here] the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty! And still more happy, if, reasoning in this easy manner, we can undermine the foundations of an abstruse philosophy, which seems to have hitherto served only as a shelter to superstition, Read More
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There is an inflation crisis, and some are blaming central banks for following outdated monetarist policies as a response. But forgetting one of the central tenets of monetarism was what led to the current inflation crisis in the first place, argues John Greenwood. The UK economy is in crisis, and some economists have blamed “the current Read More
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Last year, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, created a Center for Philosophy and Children (see this post). Now the Center has won a $250,000 grant to support its programs. [photo via UMass, Amherst] The grant will support the Center for Philosophy and Children’s residential summer philosophy program for high school Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a grad student asks: Now that I have completed my coursework, I would love to finish my graduate program remotely. What are the norms for doing this sort of thing? It seems like most graduate students that do this have some kind of visiting student affiliation Read More
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Maximiliano Gutiérrez is an International Student Advisor at the University of Texas at El Paso. He completed a master’s in philosophy at UTEP. His areas of interest are political philosophy and phenomenology. He is currently working on the ethical and phenomenological implications of immigration in the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso border drawing on the work of Read More
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Friday Mini-Heap… “I didn’t come here to propose a return to illiteracy in order to recover the knowledge of Paleolithic tribes. I regret all we may have lost, but I never forget that the gains are greater than the losses” — a transcription of part of a 1983 lecture by Italo Calvino on the written word Read More
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Elston Wells Van Steenburgh (“Van”), associate professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, has died. The following memorial notice was provided by Jason Hanna (Northern Illinois): The Northern Illinois University philosophy department mourns the loss of Elston Wells Van Steenburgh (“Van”), who passed away on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at age 94. Van completed his Read More
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“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.” – Mikhail Bakunin, A Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and Read More
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Much of conventional ethics is concerned with how we react to events that unambiguously impinge upon our lives. This may partly explain why we find it so much more obvious that we should save the child in Singer’s pond than that we should go out of our way to find other kids who need help, Read More
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Jennifer Frey and Christopher Frey, both currently associate professors of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, will be moving to the University of Tulsa. Jennifer Frey is known for her work in moral philosophy, particularly moral psychology and virtue. In addition to her academic work, she also has written for various popular media and Read More
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Artificial intelligence can be impressive to the extent that people think it might one day acquire human intelligence and, with it, consciousness. But AI can be far more intelligent than humans without ever being conscious. And apart from us having no idea how to create conscious AI, it might not even be that desirable. We Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, Perennial Candidate writes: Since this year’s job market is shifting into the next phase (fly-outs, offers), I wonder if it’s time to revisit stories from people who have left academia — how they knew it was time, what they’re doing now, their feelings on the transition, Read More
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Peter Kim Schotch, emeritus professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University, has died. The following memorial notice was written by Gillman Payette (Calgary): Peter Kim Schotch, age 76, died on December 22, 2022 at his home in Brookside Nova Scotia. Peter was born on July 26th, 1946, in Montreal, Quebec. He attended the University of Waterloo, Read More
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Last month, something unusual happened to an academic philosophy article. The news media reported on it. [Arthur Dove, “The Critic” (detail)] Shortly after the article was published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, stories about it showed up in variety of venues, including: The Guardian The Telegraph The Times The Age The South China Morning Post Read More
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The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced the winners of its 2022 Early Modern Philosophy Prize and its 2022 Philosophy of Mind Prize. The Early Modern Philosophy Prize was awarded to Gabriel Watts, a graduate student at the University of Sydney, for his “Hume’s Gambit: Irreligion, Animals, and Truth”. Here’s the abstract of the paper: In this paper Read More
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There has been a fair amount of concern over the threats that ChatGPT and AI in general pose to teaching. But perhaps there’s an upside? Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) entertains the possibility: Without wanting to diss the underlying neural network, but ChatGPT is a bullshitter in the (Frankfurt) sense of having no concern for the truth Read More
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This lecture was given at the Dinand Library, College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts, December 5th, 2022. It is republished here with the permission of the speaker. Thank you, Dr. Shelton, for that kind introduction. I also want to thank Lisa Villa, Teresa Reilly, and our wonderful library staff for once more inviting…
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“Search yourself, seek out the shattered, the multiple I, that you will be still further on, and emerge from one self, shed the old body, shake off the Law. Let it fall with all its weight, and you, take off, don’t turn back: it’s not worth it, there’s nothing behind you, everything is yet to Read More
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“Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia in Tauris Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“One should not feel shame before others rather than before oneself, or be more willing to do something bad if no one will know of it than if everyone will. Rather one should feel shame before oneself, and set up this law in one’s heart, to do nothing unfitting.” – Democritus, Fragments, B264 Originally appeared Read More
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The “Seneca Effect” has been a little gloomy, recently. So, for a change of pace, here is the translation in English of a post that I wrote for the Italian newspaper “Il Fatto Quotidiano,” also reproduced in my blog “The Sunflower Society“. Because it was published in a newspaper, it is simplified and short, yet Read More
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“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Ty Paul Monroe. Putting on Christ: Augustine’s Early Theology of Salvation and the Sacraments. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. You are great, Lord, and highly to be praised: great is your power and your wisdom is immeasurable. The human, a little piece of your creation, desires to praise you, a human…
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This year, the friends, benefactors, and contributors at VoegelinView and the Eric Voegelin Society offer some reading recommendations for the upcoming year. It’s our Christmas present to readers. Barry Cooper, University of Calgary Matthew Hollis, The Wasteland: A Biography of a Poem. (Faber, 2022). Because it’s about “The Wasteland,” Eliot, and Pound. Very well written…
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“My mind is tired & stale… I think I could discuss philosophy if I had someone here to discuss with, but alone I can’t concentrate on it.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Letter to Norman Malcolm (1 April 1949)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do one’s roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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A few days ago, I was interviewed for an episode of NPR’s On Point exploring the ideas behind effective altruism (in the wake of the FTX debacle). It made me realize there are a lot of misconceptions out there! But there wasn’t time in the episode to cover very much. So here’s an expanded version Read More
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[Revised entry by Adrian Johnston on December 24, 2022. Changes to: Bibliography] Jacques Marie Emile Lacan (April 13, 1901 to September 9, 1981) was a major figure in Parisian intellectual life for much of the twentieth century. Sometimes referred to as “the French Freud,” he is an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis. His Read More
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“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness — to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal, to think and feel as a human being, to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning. Our goal is to discover that we have Read More
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Christmas Eve Put aside tonight recognition, the obvious Surroundings, of this word – branding of things – And return to the beginning, to the birth Of all we know as creation, returning thus To origin, to ours and that of all which is, To its order and meaning, its fact and quality In that which…
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“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Michael Ridge on December 23, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction is widely and rightly regarded as a philosophically important one. Unfortunately, the distinction is often drawn in different and mutually incompatible ways. The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction has historically been drawn three main ways: the ‘principle-based distinction’, the ‘reason-statement-based Read More
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“Spirit is, as it were, the breath of God penetrating man’s being and communicating a higher dignity, a higher quality of his existence, inner independence and unity….” – Nikolai Berdyaev, The Spirit and Reality Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Maybe it’s naïve to enjoy being a teaching assistant. The hours can be long, grading is often an exercise in patience and understanding, and the pay… the pay is never quite enough. Every brilliant idea that comes to mind has seemingly been written by someone earlier on in the field, and some days, it seems Read More
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Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool in the oppression of women.” Most feminist philosophers would agree that ending gender-based violence is an essential goal of achieving gender justice. Of course, this is much easier said than done. Read More
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Gödel’s famous incompleteness theorem showed us that there is a statement in basic arithmetic that is true but can never be proven with basic arithmetic. But that is just the beginning of the story. There are more true but unprovable, or even able to be expressed, statements than we can possibly imagine, argues Noson S. Read More
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by Molly Worthen This is the season for final exams, but maybe we should drop the pencils, paper and keyboards and start talking instead. The thought is scary at first. If Chidera Onyeoziri had known that her introductory sociology course required oral exams, “I’m not sure I would have taken the class,” she told me. Read More
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I think the strongest objection to total utilitarianism is that it risks collapsing the theoretical distinction between killing and failing to create. (Of course, there would still be good practical reasons to maintain such a distinction in practice; but I think there’s a principled distinction here that our theories ought to accommodate.) While I think Read More
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Gary Iseminger, professor emeritus of philosophy at Carleton College, has died. Professor Iseminger was known for his work in philosophy of art. He authored The Aesthetic Function of Art (2004) and many articles, ranging on topics from the role of intention in art, to the nature of aesthetic judgments, to jazz improvisation. He also wrote on Read More
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Florian J. Boge, currently an interim professor for philosophy of science at Wuppertal University and a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research unit The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider, has recently obtained a €1.35 million (≈ $1.44 million) grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for research on the impact of artificial intelligence on scientific Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I’m still in grad school and want to submit a paper to journals. There is a place where I’d like to acknowledge in a footnote a committee member’s help with specific phrasing. Should I just acknowledge them in a specific footnote or in Read More
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The holiday season is upon us. As you go about your holiday shopping, might I suggest you to consider some gifts made by philosophers? Let’s start with stuff from the philosopher-artists who create the comics here at Daily Nous: Pete Mandik (Mind Chunks), Tanya Kostochka (To φ Or Not To φ), Rachel Katler (Ad Hoc), and Ryan Lake (Chaospet). Read More
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Frank Saunders Jr. (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yonsei University UIC) writes in: I wanted to share a project that I thought readers of the blog might enjoy: interactive dashboard visualizations of the 2021-2022 PGR results. I’ve created a total of 10 dashboards that can all be found along with explanations on my website here. I Read More
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Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for graduate students (postgraduates) and/or philosophy PhDs. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes: – program name – dates – location (is it currently planned as an online event, physical Read More
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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Johannes L. Brandl and Mark Textor on December 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Franz Brentano (1838 – 1917) is famous for arguing in his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874) that intentionality – being directed toward something – is the mark of the mental. Brentano used that conception not Read More
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Do not wonder why I am pale and ashen Do ask me if I have seen a ghost. I do not want to tell you: I have drained My own blood, and drank it: I am the reason I wane The film on my eyes is my light, my shame I suffer, but you need…
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“We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little an expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.” – Jeremy Bentham, Deontology or, Read More
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“Jung locates the collective unconscious in the inherited cerebral matter. But there is no need to resort to the genes; the collective unconscious is quite simply the repository of prejudices, myths, and collective attitudes of a particular group.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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A necessary condition of becoming an Examination (or Prize) Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, is taking an exam. The exam consists of four three-hour essay tests, or “papers.” Two of these are in your chosen specialist subject—Classical Studies, Law, History, English Literature, Economics, Politics, or Philosophy—and the other two are general tests and ask Read More
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Aging is something sentient beings do. We humans not only grow old, but obsessively reflect on the meaning of aging, its unwelcome impositions on our projects, and sometimes on the unexpected opportunities it affords for reconnecting with loved ones. We realize animals age, too. We care for them when their bodies ache, when they struggle Read More
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by Kim Stanley Robinson The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront Read More
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One of the youngest philosophy professors in Germany, Markus Gabriel teaches in 16 languages, dreads metaphysics and thinks that the philosophy of mind needs to tighten up. Author of ‘I Am Not A Brain’ and ‘Why The World Does Not Exist’, he will be debating Mind, Matter and Mechanisms with neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland and writer Read More
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The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to trust a human-sounding machine, argue Emily M. Bender & Chirag Shah. Decades of science fiction have Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am sure that this has been discussed here before, but what are the norms about going on the job market in order to solve a two-body problem? Do you raise that issue in a cover letter? In the interview process? After an Read More
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As noted last month, the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and other units there are facing drastic cuts. The department’s graduate (post-graduate, or PGR) students have now written a letter to the administration objecting to the cuts. Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, chair of Philosophy at Birkbeck, explained the severity of the cuts: The worst-case Read More
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“Be strong… and once you have seen unrighteousness and recognized it as such — inequity in life, a lie in science, or suffering inflicted by another — rise in revolt against the iniquity, the lie or the injustice.” – Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“I could see no reason for being sad. It’s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.” – Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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This is the third part of a series of articles by Ian James Kidd on Buddhism and social activism. Find the first two articles in the series here: Should Buddhists Be Social Activists? (Part 1) Should Buddhists Be Social Activists? (Part 2) Engaged Buddhists understand the Dhamma to endorse kinds of social activism. Compassion and Read More
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“A writer works himself up to a pitch of ecstasy, otherwise he does not take up his pen. But ecstasy is not so easily distinguished from other kinds of excitement. And as a writer is always in haste to write, he has rarely the patience to wait, but at the first promptings of animation begins Read More
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by Massimo Pigliucci My academic semester is just about to end. Indeed, today will be my last class. Not only that: I’m about to go on sabbatical, which means that I will neither teach nor participate to administrative meetings for the entire 2023. Just reading and writing about Hellenistic philosophies and about Cicero, the topics Read More
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This is a guest post by J Dmitri Gallow. Dmitri thinks about the metaphysics of causation and chance, rational choice, and formal epistemology. He is a senior research fellow at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at ACU. This post has also appeared in Daily Nous. I often hear papers, talks, or projects dismissed as “boring” Read More
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UK’s prime minister Rishi Sunak talks tough when it comes to China. But the rhetorical brandishing of British democratic values vs Chinese authoritarianism, is hypocritical, argues Jane Hayward. In a widely publicised speech at the end of November, Rishi Sunak declared the end of the “golden era” in UK-China relations, a reference harking back to Read More
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Over the past decade the philanthropic ideology of Effective Altruism (EA) has grown massively both in attracting funds and in influencing young people to try to make as much money as they can and give most of it away. EA offers adherents a philosophy of charitable giving that promises to do the “most good” per Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: If you accept a position at a school that, for political, social, or theological reasons, has a reputation for being a certain way, does the stench of their leanings follow you for the rest of your career, if you were to eventually apply Read More
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In the weeks preceding the pandemic, (then) U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Kelly Loeffler, James Inhofe, and Richard Burr sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks. The market later crashed. Briefings on COVID-19 may have tipped them off to an impending economic downturn. These revelations, coupled with the lack of prosecution, have sparked a push Read More
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The failure of the European Union may have started with the choice of the flag. Not that state flags are supposed to be works of art, but at least they can be inspiring for one reason or another. But this flag is completely flat, unoriginal, and depressing. It looks mostly like a blue cheese pizza Read More
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“Even if you prefer the sexiness of radicalism or the glory of revolution: you need boring, work-a-day normal conservative philosophy.” Yesterday, J. Dmitri Gallow (Senior Research Fellow at Dianoia Institute of Philosophy) tweeted out a thread on the value of what he labels “conservative, normal philosophy.” Finding it interesting, I asked him to turn it Read More
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Saint Thomas Aquinas by Robert Pasnau. Revised: Divine Providence by Hugh J. McCann and Daniel M. Johnson. Margaret Lucas Cavendish by David Cunning. Risk by Sven Ove Hansson. Nonexistent Objects by Maria Reicher. Relative Identity Read More
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The 1989 animated musical fantasy All Dogs Go to Heaven humorously poses the question do dogs go to heaven after their life on earth. The dog lover and theologically inclined C.S. Lewis has more seriously pondered the question, which obviously cannot be definitively answered in his field of inquiry. Although, if we were to take…
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“The good is the only source of the sacred. There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it.” – Simone Weil, “Human Personality” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It is imagination which enlarges the bounds of possibility for us, whether for good or ill, and therefore stimulates and feeds desires by the hope of satisfying them. But the object which seemed within our grasp flies quicker than we can follow; when we think we have grasped it, it transforms itself and is again Read More
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Is there such thing as a truly selfless act? Nietzsche criticized selflessness and altruistic deeds as often being a display of weakness, decay and a lack of belief in one’s self and one’s own goals. To help your neighbour is often to hinder yourself. However, if you are going to pursue a selfish life, you Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m working on revising an R&R, but for one comment by a reviewer, I’m finding it difficult to understand exactly what the reviewer’s concern is. Part of the issue is that the comment is full of typos and incomplete sentences. But that aside, Read More
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Ongoing developments in artifical intelligence, particularly in AI linguistic communication, will affect various aspects of our lives in various ways. We can’t foresee all of the uses to which technologies such as large language models (LLMs) will be put, nor all of the consequences of their employment. But we can reasonably say the effects will Read More
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The Swiss National Science Foundation recently announced which projects will be funded by their Starting Grants, and among them are two headed up by philosophers. Damiano Costa (USI, Lugano) “Temporal Existence” [CHF 1,797,074 (≈ $1,886,000)] Everything in our universe exists at some time and at some place. But what is it for something to exist at Read More
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Those who have read previous essays of mine about music and composers know that I enjoy paying tribute to the lesser-known and unjustly neglected. Such undoubtedly is Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, a short work for chorus and orchestra composed by Beethoven in 1814-15 to a text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. One critic has…
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“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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November continued our remarkable year of growth and transformation. Reviewing novels has entered our pages and will remain a staple going forward as we continue our expansion into a journal fully committed to arts and culture. In the previous month, October, VOEGELIVNIEW exceeded 40,000 readers in a monthly period for the first time in its…
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[Revised entry by Chris Mortensen on November 30, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Inconsistent mathematics is the study of the mathematical theories that result when classical mathematical axioms are asserted within the framework of a (non-classical) logic which can tolerate the presence of a contradiction without turning every sentence into a theorem…. Originally appeared Read More
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“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The characteristic activity of science is not construction, but induction. The more often something has occurred in the past, the more certain that it will in all the future. Knowledge relates solely to what is and to its recurrence. New forms of being, especially those arising from the historical activity of man, lie beyond empiricist Read More
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When do we have a scientific fact? Scientists, policymakers, and laypersons could all use an answer to this question. But despite its obvious importance, humanity lacks a good answer. The renowned biologist Ernst Mayr was one scientist—probably one of many—frustrated by the fact that philosophers of science haven’t developed an account of the transition from theory to Read More
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Whether we see humans as essentially good or essentially selfish and violent has been central to our politics, our account of society, and our vision for social progress. Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously defended the former account and Thomas Hobbes the latter. Wojciech Załuski reappraises Hobbes and defends his pessimistic account of human nature. The question of Read More
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Now that it’s been almost a month since our last “how can we help you?” thread, it’s time for a new one. For those of you unfamiliar with this series, this is a chance for you to post openly or anonymously in the comments section below on anything you could use help with related to the profession. Read More
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In this episode we talk to Andrew Garrett about the life, work and legacy of American anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Kroeber achieved a number of firsts in American anthropology: he was Boas’ first Columbia PhD and the first professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. But Kroeber is not only of historical interest. The Read More
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Crispin Wright (NYU), one of the editors of Thought, tells us that the journal has a new publisher and is moving to an open access arrangement. He writes: Thought is back up and running and invites new submissions. We are delighted to announce that the Thought Trust has now concluded new publishing arrangements with the Philosophy Documentation Centre. Read More
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Les Jones on allegories, specific domains and Wittgenstein’s social ideas.
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Grahame Lockey writes pithy observations to make you think about pithy observations to make you think.
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James Gallant, writer, reflects on the psychology of creativity.
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Massimo Pigliucci trawls the history of politics to see how closely ethics fits it.
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Rick Lewis asks Elliot Paul and Christine Battersby what’s new in this fascinating field.
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Harry Drummond builds a case.
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“There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.” – Ali Smith, How to Be Both (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Kurt R. Ward. Endymion or the State of Entropy: A Lyric Drama. Illustrations by Rebecca Yanovskaya. Amsterdam, 2022. “The shades of Dawn begin to descend / As the Days subtle murmurs / Pass softly into Nights long dark train. Day is but a shadow of the Senses, / A Cave which refracts all light,…
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“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Consider the fact that, in a few years, I shall be dead. This fact can seem depressing. But the reality is only this. After a certain time, none of the thoughts and experiences that occur will be directly causally related to this brain, or be connected in certain ways to these present experiences. That is Read More
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2022.11.11 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews J. Adam Carter, Autonomous knowledge: radical enhancement, autonomy, and the future of knowing, Oxford University Press, 2022, 176pp., $70.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192846921. Reviewed by Chris Tweedt, Christopher Newport University J. Adam Carter argues knowledge is more than justified, true, non-Gettiered belief; knowledge also requires an Read More
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2022.11.06 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Frances Power Cobbe and Alison Stone (ed), Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher, Oxford University Press, 2022, 261pp. $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197628232. Reviewed by Karen Green, University of Melbourne This selection of essays from the pen of Frances Power Cobbe is the Read More
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2022.11.07 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Roe Fremstedal, Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 280pp., $99.99 (hbk) ISBN 9781316513767. Reviewed by Jeffrey Hanson, Harvard University Some of the most interesting and important scholarly work on Kierkegaard is playing out in conversation with contemporary Read More
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2022.11.08 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Charles Ehret, Agir en vertu d’un autre: Thomas d’Aquin et l’ontologie de l’instrument, Vrin, 2021, 235pp., $37.00 (pbk) ISBN 9782711630066. Reviewed by Cyrille Michon, Université de Nantes If I move a stone with a stick, what does the stick contribute? To say that it Read More
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2022.11.09 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Anne Phillips, Unconditional Equals, Princeton University Press, 2021, 141pp., $22.95 (pbk), ISBN9780691226163. Reviewed by David Livingstone Smith, University of New England This slender volume, only one hundred twelve pages long, excluding notes and an index, packs a powerful philosophical punch. Conceptually rich and compulsively readable, Read More
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2022.11.10 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jay L. Garfield, Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self, Princeton University Press, 2022, 224pp., $29.95 (hbk) ISBN 978069122084. Reviewed by Evan Thompson, University of British Columbia The principal claims of Losing Ourselves are deceptively easy to state: We are not selves, nor Read More
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When the French Revolution abolished the Estates General and appeared to usher in the Enlightenment virtues of egalitarianism, the accepted liberal historical view was that the age of absolutist and clerical elites had been confined to the dustbin of history and the universal march to democratic egalitarianism and economic prosperity was beginning. While the absolutism…
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journals Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“There are many different things present in everything that is being combined, and seeds of all things, having all sorts of forms, colors, and flavors, and that humans and also the other animals were compounded, as many as have soul. Also that there are cities that have been constructed by humans and works made, just Read More
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Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University, and the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy (1997) and Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination and Political Hope (2022). She also writes on democracy, academic freedom, justice, and moral psychology. In this Recently Read More
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England face Iran in their first World Cup game. The human rights violations currently taking place in Iran are horrific. Yet, due to strict FIFA rules, the game will almost certainly go ahead. And the Qatar World Cup as a whole is awash with controversy, from the thousands that have died building the stadiums to Read More
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Does the FTX debacle hold lessons for moral philosophers? For those interested in public philosophy? 1. What’s the connection? The head of FTX, billionaire Samuel Bankman-Fried, has been an active part of the “effective altruism” movement, which was inspired by Peter Singer‘s application of utilitarianism to problems of world hunger (especially the classic 1972 essay Read More
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In our October “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asked: What goes into selecting a potential reviewer for your article? Is it normal for junior scholars to select, for example, their thesis advisor or another person at their graduate institution? Should it specifically be someone who works on this exact topic, or someone Read More
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Academia’s emphasis on citation rates is “mixed news” for philosophy: it can bring attention to high-quality work, but tends to make philosophy and other humanities fields look bad in comparison with other areas, says Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside), in the following guest post. (A version of this post first appeared at The Splintered Mind.) Citation Rates Read More
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Jesse Gray is an early career researcher studying shifting responsibilities among healthcare professionals and patients with the introduction of mobile health technologies. You can learn more about this project here. What is your favorite book of all time? (Or top 3). Why? To whom would you recommend them? Reasons and Persons is one of the Read More
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“Human history is simply the history of the servitude which makes men — oppressed and oppressors alike — the plaything of the instruments of domination they themselves have manufactured, and thus reduces living humanity to being the chattel of inanimate chattels.” – Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Brad Leithauser. Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. “If, generations hence, literary historians take any interest in what went on in our criticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, surely they will marvel at an explosion of explication surveying poetry from every conceivable ventage (psychoanalytic, sociological, political, philosophical,…
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“When I see or hear of any act of injustice – whoever is the victim of it, and wherever it is committed – my heart kindles with rage, as if the effect of it recoiled upon myself.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Shy people usually receive their impressions post-dated. During those moments when an event is taking place before their eyes, they can see nothing, only later on, having evoked from their memory a fragment of what happened, they make for themselves an impression of the whole scene. And then, retrospectively arise in their soul feelings of Read More
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A major motivation for utilitarianism is that it, more than any other view, really takes seriously the moral datum that everyone matters equally. Other common views are often problematically nationalist, speciesist, and near-termist. Prioritarian views explicitly give less weight to the better-off, and egalitarianism goes even further as it valorizes harms to the best off Read More
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by Tressie McMillan Cottom Trevor Noah recently surprised fans (and, according to some accounts, also Comedy Central management) when he announced plans to leave “The Daily Show.” His departure is one of many notable personnel changes in late-night television: James Corden will leave “The Late Late Show” next year, TBS canceled “Full Frontal With Samantha Read More
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Dr Andreas Matthias teaches philosophy at an Asian university. Before becoming a philosopher, he worked for twenty years as a programmer at a German university. He is the publisher and editor of Daily Philosophy, author of multiple books, and one half of the Accented Philosophy podcast. This interview was first published in Spanish on Filosofia Read More
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“All find what they truly seek.” – C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Monte Piana (“Flat Mountain”) in the Italian Alps. A bloody and protracted battle was fought there between the forces of Italy and of Austria-Hungary. One more example of how often history rhymes. This ancient battle may tell us something about the current situation in Ukraine The Monte Piana in Northern Italy is a place Read More
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. New York: Basic Books, 2022. When does enthusiasm for the foreign become too intoxicating that one ends up defending the indefensible and offers up a mythology just as crude as the earlier mythology that portrays the foreign in a such a horrid, negative, light? No…
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It’s Halloween, and you’re looking for that perfect, spooky Halloween music that’s a little more sophisticated than “The Monster Mash” and “Thriller” and “Werewolves of London.” Look no further, friends. I’ve done my own hopping around to see what others consider to be their Top 10 classical spooky favorites. My list is a little different;…
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“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.” – David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“A Way become Way isn’t the perennial Way. A name become name isn’t the perennial name: the named is mother to the ten thousand things, but the unnamed is origin to all heaven and earth.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Hinton tr. (Ch 1) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.” – Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to.” – Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“All philosophy is a ‘critique of language’…” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Look with every means of apprehension, in whatever way each thing is clear, not holding any sight more in trust than [what comes] through hearing…” – Empedocles, Fragments, B3 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Intergenerational integrity reshapes the academy, beginning with the Earth that gave rise to us. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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The pandemic brought out a key contradiction at the heart of human nature. Different living arrangements meant that those stuck on their own during lockdowns felt a profound sense of isolation, while those who were living with family lost any sense of personal space and independence. Neither arrangement was ideal – humans, it turns out, Read More
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“You miss the half of it, and more. There’s always as much belowground as above. That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen.” – Richard Powers, The Overstory (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 495 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Those pleasures which occur most rarely give the greatest delight.” – Democritus, Fragments, B232 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Is moral responsibility a mere illusion? Massimo Pigliucci, Galen Strawson and Sarah Garfinkel debate the essence of innocence and guilt. (Watch the full debate here.) Some argue behaviour is a product of our genes. Others that upbringing and environment play the primary role in determining who we are. So do we carry no responsibility for Read More
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[Revised entry by Russell Goodman on October 21, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] An American essayist, poet, and popular philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston, but achieved worldwide fame as a lecturer and the author of such essays as “Self-Reliance,” “History,” “The Over-Soul,” and Read More
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“The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.” – Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Alan Kim on October 21, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832 – 1920) is known to posterity as the “father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory (Boring 1950: 317, 322, 344 – 5),[1] whence he exerted enormous influence on the development of Read More
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“The child learns language from the grown-ups by being trained to its use. I am using the word ‘trained’ in a way strictly analogous to that in which we talk of an animal being trained to do certain things. It is done by means of example, reward, punishment, and suchlike.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Read More
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Hannah Rubin, currently assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a position as associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Professor Rubin works primarily in philosophy of biology and philosophy of science. She holds a sizable National Science Foundation grant for the project “Race, Gender, and the Science Read More
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“Calculate what man knows, and it cannot compare with what he does not know. Calculate the time he is alive, and it cannot compare with the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large! Hence he is muddled and confused and can Read More
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Alcohol has long been recognized as a useful social lubricant for parties and gatherings. Yet few of us understand the historical importance of intoxication, and the fundamental role it has played in forming societies. In this article, Edward Slingerland argues that alcohol helps us to access truth, and posits that intoxication should be taken seriously Read More
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“How to deal with GPT-3-written essays? Instead of scolding students not to use it, we ask them to generate a ten, choose the best one, and explain why. Unless they have a paid account, the word-count limit would make it impossible to use GPT-3 to also generate the explanation…” That’s Mark Alfano (Macquarie) discussing GPT-3 Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, JT asks: Can my publication record and overall fit for the job outweigh a lack of solo teaching experience? I have plenty of teaching assistant experience, but have no solo experience yet. I’m nearing the end of my PhD program and have found a job to Read More
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Over 450 academics, many of whom work in moral and political philosophy, have signed onto the “Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation.” [painting by a rhinoceros at the St. Louis Zoo] The declaration condemns treating animals as mere “objects or commodities” and acting in ways that “seriously contravene their most fundamental interests.” It was the idea Read More
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For much of philosophy’s past, the canon has been exclusively favorable to those whom society privileged. Think of any philosopher whose name you may hear in a philosophy 101 course—Kant, Hegel, Socrates, Sartre—and you’ll quickly come to find that they all share a particular kind of availability to the works of masters’ past. Recently, philosophy Read More
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The John Locke Society has announced that its journal, Locke Studies, has named a new editor. Daniel Layman (Davidson College) will be taking up the position. The journal is currently run by interim editors Peter Anstey (Sydney) and Antonia LoLordo (Virginia), and before them, its editor was Benjamin Hill (Western). Locke Studies is an open access, Read More
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It is not difficult to define the place that physical labour should occupy in a well-ordered social life. It should be its spiritual core. – Simone Weil Our shovels retrieved spades full of mulch From the heap of mulch which we worked to spread. We worked in vapor and in our own sweat. We could…
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“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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I.B. Singer became famous as a guardian of Yiddish culture. Yet his work tended to subvert such pieties Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[Revised entry by Anca Gheaus on October 4, 2022. Changes to: Main text] Over the past decades, political philosophers and applied ethicists have been increasingly interested in the value of personal relationships. The goods they generate – or, perhaps, of which they consist – are obviously important, both instrumentally and non-instrumentally, for how well individuals’ Read More
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Authoritarian offspring. Hitler was all but sexless; Stalin had three children (probably). What about Mussolini? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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How many copies of a given book were sold? Do TV adaptations lead to big sales? Book data is proprietary and locked away. Why? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[Revised entry by Fernando Rudy-Hiller on October 4, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Philosophers usually acknowledge two individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for a person to be morally responsible for an action, i.e., susceptible to be praised or blamed for it: a control condition (also called freedom condition) and an epistemic condition (also Read More
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[Revised entry by Florian Steinberger on October 4, 2022. Changes to: Bibliography] We consider it to be a bad thing to be inconsistent. Similarly, we criticize others for failing to appreciate (at least the more obvious) logical consequences of their beliefs. In both cases there is a failure to conform one’s attitudes to logical strictures. Read More
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[Revised entry by C. Stephen Evans and David Baggett on October 4, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Moral arguments for God’s existence form a diverse family of arguments that reason from some feature of morality or the moral life to the existence of God, usually understood as a morally good creator of the universe. Read More
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“It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to men who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation.” – Simone Weil, “Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation” Originally Read More
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James Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at University College London, and co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre. He has been a member of advisory groups to the National Health Service on data collection and data access, and he serves on the National Data Guardian’s steering group. James is interviewed here by Peter Momtchiloff, philosophy Read More
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“Les Glaneuses” (the gleaners). A painting by Francois Millet (1857). Is this the destiny of the people of Western Europe as the result of the war in Ukraine? All wars are wars for resources and, in modern times, they have been mostly for the resources that make the very existence of our civilization possible: Read More
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Zenon Culverhouse. Plato’s Hippias Minor: The Play of Ambiguity. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Plato’s Hippias Minor is often characterized as one of Plato’s least satisfying dialogues, namely because it does not seem, at least on the surface, to present a clear, unifying argument. Moreover, the arguments it does present seem, on the surface, to…
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“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.” – Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death Originally appeared on Philosophy Read More
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There is no lack of formulas for how to open a story. But great short stories elude well-worn schemes Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Buckminster Fuller, bursting with ideas, displayed a remarkable talent for design, novelty, and losing money Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Cheating in chess. A teenager beats the world champion; cryptic tweets and a chess-world meltdown ensue Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[New Entry by Andy Egan and Michael G. Titelbaum on September 30, 2022.] Self-locating beliefs are beliefs about one’s position or situation in the world, as opposed to beliefs about how the world is in itself. Section 1 of this entry introduces self-locating beliefs. Section 2 presents several distinct arguments that self-locating beliefs constitute a Read More
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“The wise should adapt themselves to the present, even when the past seems more attractive.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Without the daily press and without anonymity one always has the consolation that it is a definite individual person who voices the error, gives impudence expression, etc. In that case there’s hope that many will shrink from being that individual, and one knows in any case who he is. But the Somebody who is nobody Read More
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“Inner experiences are not the only things that matter, but they do matter. We would not plug into an experience machine, but we would not plug into an anesthetizing machine either.” – Robert Nozick, The Examined Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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by Massimo Pigliucci There is freedom of thought, and each one can sustain what he wants, as for me, I will stick to my principle, and I will always seek in every question the maximum probability, without being bound by the law of any particular school to which shall forcibly follow my speculation. (Cicero, Tusculan Read More
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The relationship between morality and emotion has divided thinkers for centuries. Most contemporary ethical systems demand impartiality; that we should not allow emotion, particularly empathy, to distract us from doing what is morally right. In this article, Heidi L. Maibom rejects this position. Here, she argues that empathy is both an essential and necessary tool Read More
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The Guardian has released its rankings of UK universities at which to study philosophy. The rankings are aimed at undergraduates. Here’s their description: Unlike other league tables, the Guardian rankings focus on the things students care about, such as good teaching and job prospects, rather than basing them on academic research. We rank universities through nine Read More
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I just returned home yesterday from a wonderful time in Boston for the Beyond the Ivory Tower Workshop. For those of you who may not have heard of them before, the workshops are held several times per year, and participants are guided over the course of several days on how to ‘Learn to write short Read More
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In our September “how can we help you?” thread, eli writes: I hope this question is in the scope, because I am genuinely curious for practical reasons. Is anyone here a faculty at an elite program who has also worked in non-elite programs? How do those experiences compare? In particular, are you bothered by/developing/acting out Read More
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“When you, as an undergrad, were told, repeatedly, that the odds of securing a good job in academia were long but you decided to roll the dice anyway, how did you rationalize the decision? What did you tell yourself? Be honest.” Nicholas Laskowski, an assistant professor of philosophy at CSU Long Beach, recently asked that Read More
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The data are now almost definitive and, as you probably already know, it was a historical triumph for the right-wing parties, and in particular for the “Fratelli d’Italia” coalition led by Giorgia Meloni. The triumph of the right may make people outside Italy worried, but there is no reason. Elections in the West are Read More
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: ∅ Revised: Timon of Phlius by Richard Bett. Prediction versus Accommodation by Eric Christian Barnes. Pornography and Censorship by Caroline West. Descriptions by Peter Ludlow. Logical Empiricism by Richard Creath. Karl Leonhard Reinhold by Dan Read More
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For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. It is difficult for a person today to think of a citizen’s relationship to government other than being a social contract, such is the powerful hold that Hobbes and Locke have over us. Social…
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Captain Ahab played by Gregory Peck in the 1956 film version of “Moby Dick.” Ahab is a fictional character, but there are plenty of real-world examples of captains who led their ships to disaster, as Ahab did. Handling all the decisional power to a single person nearly guarantees catastrophic results if the lone man Read More
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A small, billowing, clear plastic bag With a press-strip closure – one Strip yellow, the other blue – now Open-mouthed, accompanies me, Tumbling beside my footfalls For several metres along the path, And halts, caught in a fallen branch. The bag held, perhaps, some item Of a child’s lunch. That eaten, and This discarded, it…
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“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.71) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The guys at Axios are divulging the secrets of “smart brevity.” One problem: Smart brevity isn’t all that smart Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Jean-Luc Godard anticipated and shaped every major modern cinematic trend. He didn’t just make cinema — he was cinema Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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An English “Age of Gold” commenced in the 1660s. But the consequent frivolity and luxury soon came under satirical attack Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Saul Kripke, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the 20th Century, has died. Professor Kripke was well-known for his work in philosophy of language and logic, with his Naming and Necessity, the book version of lectures he delivered at Princeton University in 1970, widely recognized as one of the most important works of 20th Read More
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“The good bear with the wicked by enduring patiently the wrongs they themselves receive from them: but they do not bear with them as to endure the wrongs they inflict on others.” – Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“50 Answers,” a new book by Glory White, explores 50 distinct answers a wide variety of religions provide for our biggest, most compelling questions. The following excerpt provides an exclusive sneak peek into how religions tackle the all-important subject of fate. Where do we come from? What happens after we die? Religions have been answering Read More
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“The conflicts that tear society apart resemble the distinction between the concept and the particular facts subordinated to it…. Whatever refuses to abide by the unity imposed by the principle of dominion manifests itself not as something indifferent to that principle, but as an infringement of logic: as a contradiction.” – Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures Read More
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Disclaimer: For the purposes of this blog article, the author aims to contrast the public life of men and the private life of women, arguing that the latter gives women a more interesting perspective on certain philosophical problems. This is developed with reference to the work of Beauvoir, Shonagon, Kondo, etc. For this reason, the Read More
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“I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.” – Albert Camus, The Fall Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In March of 1877, Ulysses S. Grant left the presidency with a sullied reputation. It was a tough pill to swallow for a man who emerged from the ruins of civil war with a prestige and renown that appeared beyond reproach to both friend and foe. Yet a decade marked by corruption, graft, and an…
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“If I am anxious about a past misfortune, then this is not because it is in the past but because it may be repeated, i.e., become future. If I am anxious because of a past offense, it is because I have not placed it in an essential relation to myself as past and have in Read More
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“The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen. We don’t know the future but everybody acts into the future.” – Hannah Arendt, “Interview with Roger Errera”, The New York Review of Books (26 October 1978) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In ancient Japan, the “kagemusha” (shadow warrior) was an impersonator who took the aspect and the role of the actual leader. The kagemusha was simply a decoy to be used in battle while, in our times, the problem for leaders is not so much to deflect bullets and arrows but to deflect the much Read More
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What does atheism mean to you? Is logic ancient history? How is Calvinism changing the world? Put your thinking cap on, earbuds in, and get listening to our curated collection of Very Short Introductions podcast episodes for thinkers. These four episodes—each under 15 minutes long—created by our expert authors offer bite-sized introductions to four big Read More
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The Wartime Sermons of Jonathan Edwards. Ed. Christian Cuthbert. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022. Jonathan Edwards has been called “the American Augustine.” One of the greatest experiences of my life, while a student at Yale, was getting to see the surviving manuscript of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” My professor at…
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“It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Maximes et réflexions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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38th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY American Political Science Association Meeting September 15-18, 2022 Montréal, Québec, CANADA Friends, Here is the final version of our program with changes up to the beginning of September. I look forward to seeing you as we gather and return to more convivial exchanges than we have…
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[Revised entry by Helen De Cruz on September 3, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The relationship between religion and science is the subject of continued debate in philosophy and theology. To what extent are religion and science compatible? Are religious beliefs sometimes conducive to science, or do they inevitably pose obstacles to scientific inquiry? Read More
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[Revised entry by Eva Del Soldato on September 3, 2022. Changes to: Bibliography] Basil Bessarion (d. 1472) was, before Marsilio Ficino (1433 – 1499), the not so grey eminence responsible for the return of Plato in the Western world. Defending Plato’s reputation from the attacks of the arch-Aristotelian George of Trebizond – attacks which were Read More
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“The Tao is forever undefined. Small though it is in the unformed state, it cannot be grasped.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 32) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.” – John Updike, Buchanan Dying (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] Every year Robert Hodgson selects the finest wines from his small California winery and puts them into competitions around the state. And in most years, the results are surprisingly inconsistent: some whites rated as gold medallists Read More
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Etymologically, perversion designates an overturning, a thorough subversion with respect to a proper telos, a natural course and end. To pervert an art is to turn it completely against its own way, to serve ends alien to it. Perversion entails, then, the reduction of what possesses an inherent good to a mere instrument. Perversion robs…
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“But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.” – Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Joan W. Scott: “The line between a politically engaged critical history and a dogmatic reading of the past is not easy to distinguish” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The Waste Land was, for Eliot, “just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.” The life of a poet is romances, letters, and friendships — not just the poetry itself Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Freud preferred to avoid thinking about the Nazis. The Nazis thought a great deal about Freud Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Distrust of grammar is the first requisite for philosophizing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notes on Logic Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Jan-Erik Jones on September 2, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The technical term ‘real essence’ is introduced into the philosophical lexicon by the English philosopher John Locke (1632 – 1704) in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding[1] (hereafter “Essay”) that was first published in London, in December of 1689. In order Read More
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“All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in ‘irreducible and stubborn facts’; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts Read More
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Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research broadly seeks to rethink the relationship between politics and aesthetics in relation to gender-differentiated colonial logics of capitalist accumulation. His recent book, Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death in the Settler Colonial Present (SUNY Press 2021), Read More
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Elizabeth A. Fay. Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2021. What is Egypt? At first, this question appears to have many answers that are obvious and come to mind almost immediately, and for this reason, they happen to be mundane and somewhat unexciting. After all, isn’t Egypt just a…
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“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Long critically acclaimed, Gwendoline Riley was once dropped by a publisher for lackluster sales. Has commercial success finally arrived? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“The sickness I was suffering from was that I had been driven out of the paradise of childhood and had not found my place in the world of adults. I had set myself up in the absolute in order to gaze down upon this world which was rejecting me; now, if I wanted to act, Read More
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Books of quotations have been around for centuries. Their long history shapes what they’re now expected to contain Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Antiracism Inc., a knockoff of critical race theory, has popularized — and diluted — key CRT concepts Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the Read More
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This post was originally published on The Philosopher as part of a series of essays and interviews on the life and philosophy of Charles W. Mills curated and edited by Darren Chetty and Adam Ferner. You can read the full series of essays and interviews in the latest issue of The Philosopher. On more than Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] Political views are, fundamentally, opinions about the best ordering of society. To paint with the broadest of brushes, progressives are optimists, seeking to plant trees whose shade they may never stand under. Conservatives, by contrast, believe that Read More
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I know this season’s academic job market has just begun, but I was curious what the job market looks like so far. So, I looked up the number of ads posted to PhilJobs this August, compared it to the previous 10 years, and here is what I found: Number of job ads posted in August Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I have a question about book reviews. I am a junior assistant professor, and I plan to complete/publish a book project before getting tenured. I have seen that books in my field (from the same press) that were published around the same time Read More
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At the fourteenth exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, held between April 15 and June 27, 1902, the German sculptor Max Klinger unveiled his monument to Ludwig van Beethoven. Conceived as a tribute to Beethoven, the entire celebratory program determined to effect an artistic synthesis, integrating architecture, painting, sculpture, design, and music…
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We live in the information age, the product of the modern computer. The modern computer is itself a product of modern logic, which underwent a revolution in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This revolution was driven by logicians and mathematicians: George Boole (whose Boolean data types are so important to computing) and Augustus Read More
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In the wake of controversies over Philosophia‘s publishing of articles on “Jewish Influence” (see here), its editor’s decisions regarding referees (see here), and its editorial processes (see here), the journal’s publisher, Springer, has brought on a new editor. Mitchell Green, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, will be taking over the journal as Read More
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In recent columns, I’ve written about the mysterious effects of mind on body and their unpredictable intertwinings. One reader has left Comments on these columns, twice urging me to read John E. Sarno’s book, The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders. I’d never heard of the book nor of its author, but – ever…
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“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.” – Albert Camus, The Rebel Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.” – Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship Originally Read More
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James Joyce could spend days sculpting a sentence, yet there is no good answer to the question “What is Joyce’s style?” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In search of Agatha Christie. Misperception and mystery cling to the life of the elusive novelist Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The therapeutic potential of psychedelics is promising – but almost certainly overhyped. Excitement has veered into misinformation Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“What is distinct is distinct in dependence on that from which it is distinct; it is not distinct apart from that from which it is distinct. … If the distinct thing were distinct from that from which it is distinct, then it would be distinct [even] without that from which it is distinct. But the Read More
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by Massimo Pigliucci A shipowner was about to send to sea a ship with immigrants on board. He knew that she was old, and not well built to begin with; that she had seen many seas and storms, and often had needed repairs. Doubts had been suggested to him that possibly she was not seaworthy. Read More
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Harvey Lederman, currently professor of philosophy at Princeton University, has accepted an offer from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Lederman’s research is in logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and Chinese philosophy. His current projects include work on Frege and on the Ming dynasty philosophy Wang Yangming. You can learn more about what he Read More
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John JosephUniversity of Edinburgh One hundred years ago, Raymond de Saussure (1894-1971), the second son of Ferdinand and Marie de Saussure, published a review of a collection of papers by his father’s most famous and devoted student, Antoine Meillet (1866-1936). Saussure (henceforth the surname used alone will designate Raymond) was not a linguist, but a Read More
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I’d like to continue our new job-market do’s and don’ts series today by asking search committee members to weigh in on what job candidates should and shouldn’t do in research ‘job talks.’ I wrote one post giving some tips for job talks at teaching-focused institutions in our Secret Lives of Search Committees series, but I think it would Read More
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Over the past few years we have seen some startling progress from Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3, and some of those paying attention to these developments, such as philosopher John Symons (University of Kansas), believe that they pose an imminent threat to teaching and learning (for those who missed its inclusion in the Heap Read More
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Larry Laudan, an influential philosopher of science and law, died on August 23rd, 2022. Professor Laudan is the author of Progress and Its Problems, Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate, Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and Evidence, Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology, and many other Read More
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Our continued transformation to becoming a publication of arts and humanities and book reviews offering cultural and intellectual commentary in the spirit of Eric Voegelin is now nearing completion, nearly three months earlier than expected in what was a planned yearlong transition. This month, we welcomed journalist and poet Harry Eyres as among our contributors…
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“One understands only in proportion to becoming himself that which he understands.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Books are boring, movies are boring, art is boring. Blame the internet for our era of cultural malaise Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, critic. The Yiddish writer has a vast, little-known nonfiction oeuvre Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Old books are noisy, imagination-firing things. Which makes it hard to auction off a world-class collection of first editions Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Six years ago I posted a syllabus for a 9-week UK undergraduate course on Effective Altruism. But that’s now quite outdated. So I’ve been updating it to take into account recent developments, as well as expanding it to cover a full 16-week US semester. Here’s my current best effort for a course titled ‘Effective Altruism Read More
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This post is the second of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments and colleges can do more to emphasize the importance of success in the classroom. The material is used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers. What are the appropriate criteria for Read More
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“The finer sentiments of the mind, the operations of the understanding, the various agitations and passions, though really in themselves distinct, easily escape us, when surveyed by reflection; nor is it in our power to recall the original object, as often as we have the time to contemplate it. Ambiguity, by this means, is gradually Read More
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[Books I’ve read that I think may be of general interest. See also my book club entries under essays.] In an age of self-exposure, what does it mean to be authentic? “Authenticity” has become attenuated to the point of meaninglessness; everyone says to be yourself, but what that means is anyone’s guess. For existential philosopher Simone de Read More
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“Paying attention was the first step in learning how to be alive.” – Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, “Religion: A Dialogue”, Parerga and Paralipomena Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Here is the latest — and last! — complete audio commentary series from my Stoic Meditations, dedicated to Epictetus’ Enchiridion. This is one of the most important texts of ancient Stoicism, a very short but very powerful guide to a life worth living. I decided to conclude my long running Stoic Meditations series (5 years, 1094 Read More
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“It is senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.” – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Mark Webb on August 26, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Religious experiences can be characterized generally as experiences that seem to the person having them to be of some objective reality and to have some religious import. That reality can be an individual, a state of affairs, a fact, or even Read More
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A diversity bureaucracy seeking to support and affirm identity is prying into our once private, intimate senses of self Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Jared Kushner’s memoir is “a portrait of a man whose moral compass has been demagnetized” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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How to kill a bookworm. Attacked by ravenous beetles, the 1920s Huntington Library considered pepper, formaldehyde, and acid gas Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time — Read More
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Katherine speaks to her old friend Nora about what political engagement on campus lacks, online politics, and helping to make our communities work. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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One way of thinking about and getting an understanding of Kant’s Categories is to draw an analogy with the Stevenson Screen. There are both similarities and differences that are interesting. In explaining this I hope light will be shed on what Kant’s Categories are and how they function in our understanding of the world. The Read More
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“There are these two truths: the conventional and the ultimate. Reality is beyond the scope of intellection. Intellection is said to be the conventional.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:2) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this episode of the Philosophy as a Way of Life podcast Rob and Massimo chat with Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment. We talk about existentialism, authenticity, bad faith, and all sorts of other ideas relevant for an existential way of life. How to Be Authentic Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, a non-tt faculty member asks: Does anyone have a good understanding of what article statuses, e.g. initial check or awaiting associate editor recommendation mean? I think some are fairly self-evident in retrospect, but when I first started submitting to journals I was quite confused and anxious. Read More
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In this episode I talk to Jason Brennan. Jason is a Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is a prolific and productive scholar, having published over 20 books and 70 articles in the past decade or so. His research focuses on the intersections between politics, economics Read More
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Paul Humphreys, Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, has died. Professor Humphreys was well-known for his research in philosophy of science, which included work ranging from emergence, probabilistic causality, scientific explanation, to the philosophy of computer simulations. You can learn more about his work here and here. Professor Humphreys was a part Read More
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Mike Gadomski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, working in political philosophy and meta-political philosophy. Born and raised in southern New Jersey, he lived in Vermont and Massachusetts before returning to Philadelphia for graduate school. What excites you about philosophy? For me, doing philosophy means having the Read More
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A Comment by Bernard Paquito on the New Report of the club of Rome, “Limits and Beyond” Reproduced with the kind permission of the author 25/08/2022 BERNARD PAQUITO Bardi & Pereira did a great job with this collective book: Limits and Beyond. Authors have different backgrounds, cultures, point of views about the Limits to Growth consequences Read More
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“An entire mythology is stored within our language.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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(Egyptian, c. 1500 BCE, now in the Turin Museum) i Everything you would need and perhaps more: a game of senet, for two players, with its perfect drawer; four slender walking sticks, Mirit’s beauty box, her combs and pins, eye-shadow containers. Thirty-four undergarments in a wooden chest, a braided wig; Vases filled with fish, fowl,…
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[Books I’ve read that I think may be of general interest. See also my book club entries under essays.] Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series Read More
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Bogus weather predictions and astrological hooey. The Old Farmer’s Almanac, while quaint, has lost its way Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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I’d like to continue our new job-market do’s and don’ts series today by asking search committee members to weigh in on what job candidates should and shouldn’t do in research statements. I wrote one post on teaching portfolios back in 2015 in our Job Market Boot Camp, but I think it would be good to hear from search committee members on what they Read More
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The Rebirth of Satire I recently received Shane Ralston’s invitation to write ‘a treatment of a single film, classic or contemporary, from any philosophical perspective/approach’. Sipping my beer on a hot summer afternoon, I froze. As one of the founding members of the Association for Visual Pedagogies and its Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, Read More
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Barry Lam, who until recently was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, and who is well-known as the creator of the popular philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation, is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Professor Lam’s appointment at UC Riverside began July 1st, however, he will not be teaching there until Read More
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[Revised entry by Douglas Bridges, Erik Palmgren, and Hajime Ishihara on August 25, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, supplement1.html, supplement2.html] Constructive mathematics is distinguished from its traditional counterpart, classical mathematics, by the strict interpretation of the phrase “there exists” as “we can construct”. In order to work constructively, we need to re-interpret not only Read More
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How much hangs on that denial – or on its contradictory, that my mind is my brain! If our minds are our brains, as I once thought, and as our educated contemporaries mostly still assert, it follows that one day we will all entirely cease to be. And, unless we’ve managed to become unusually famous,…
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius, Book of Documents Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“There must be no concessions to the enemy. When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble.” – Frederick Douglass, “Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Dragons, gargoyles, fairies — much of what we take to be Medieval aesthetics in fact come from 19th-century renderings Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Big History emphasizes the grand cosmic sweep of time, reducing humanity’s role — and the import of our politics Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed, a deep satisfaction – to be gained from this observation when looking back over one’s life.” – Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
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Some time since I moved to the United States, my home country, Turkey, shifted its geographic location, and so did my relation to the geographies of philosophy. The country as a whole moved from being a periphery of “Europe” to the periphery of “The Middle East.” In the meantime, I moved from being a not-quite Read More
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by Massimo Pigliucci Ever since I got interested in practicing Greco-Roman philosophy, and especially one form or another of Stoicism, I’ve had to face the inevitable fact that sometimes the ancients seem so hopelessly out of touch that one wonders whether the whole enterprise is actually worth it. Stoicism, of course, is not the only Read More
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There’s a general recipe that underlies the organ-harvesting case and similar standard “counterexamples” to utilitarianism: (1) Imagine an action that violates important (utility-promoting) laws or norms, and—in real-world circumstances—would be disastrous in expectation. (2) Add some fine print stipulating that, contrary to all expectation, the act is somehow guaranteed to turn out for the best. Read More
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CULTIVATING UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS IN PHILOSOPHY —DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AT PENN STATE— Our Fall CUSP Graduate Workshop application is now open. The workshop will take place October 23-26, 2022 in person. Selected students will be brought to campus for the institute (all expenses paid). Click here to visit the Fall CUSP eligibility criteria. The application for Summer CUSP is now Read More
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In our August “how can we help you?” thread, an early career philosopher inquires: I feel a bit out of the loop professionally. Most often when I learn about a conference or workshop, it’s from someone already going and the deadline for submission has already passed. This is partly my fault for just not being Read More
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I’d like to continue our new job-market do’s and don’ts series today by asking search committee members to weigh in on what job candidates should and shouldn’t do in teaching portfolios. I’m a bit surprised that no one has weighed in on our thread on teaching statements, as there were quite a few helpful comments in the Read More
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Moral progress is something to be celebrated. But what is it, exactly? In answer to that question, many people point to paradigmatic cases of moral progress: the abolition of slavery, the extension of legal rights to women and racial minorities, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, and so on. But what is it that unites these cases? Read More
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The number of college students graduating with degrees in philosophy continues to increase, as does the gender and racial diversity of this group. In the following guest post, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) shares some of his recent research on diversity in philosophy. A version of this post originally appeared at his blog, The Splintered Mind. Read More
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Technology is often conceived as an extension of our body. A misleading conception. Consider our cameras: they are not mere or innocent extensions of our eyes. They go “farther,” but in doing so they distort, proceeding in an unnatural way, “flattening” the seen in more than one sense. For the eye is alive, whereas the…
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“Like the soil, the mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.” – John Dewey, Art as Experience Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Envy no one. For good people do not deserve envy, and the more that wicked people succeed the more they ruin things for themselves.” – Epicurus, Vatican Sayings Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Do too many historians work “through the prism of contemporary social justice issues,” as the president of the American Historical Association contends? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Farah Jasmine Griffin’s memoir traces the healing power of Black thought from Frederick Douglass to Tayari Jones Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Milton Avery, America’s Matisse, committed neither to abstraction nor representation, charting a challenging middle path Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“The State is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest.” – Mikhail Bakunin, “Rousseau’s Theory of the State” Originally Read More
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This post is the first of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work, he suggests how departments and colleges can do more to emphasize the importance of success in the classroom. The material is used with the permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers. The book from which these Read More
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What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events affecting us, we can have control over how we approach things. In this short Read More
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In our job-market do’s and don’ts thread on CVs, there was some discussion of whether job candidates should list works-in-progress (WIPs), and if so, whether listing too many of them can decrease a candidate’s credibility. On early career person suggested it might be good to run a new thread on these questions, so here it Read More
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The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a number of grants over the past few months, and a few philosophers are among the recipients. They are: Neil Levy (Macquarie University) Are We Rational Animals? Tradition holds that humans are distinguished from other animals by our rationality. But research produced over the last several decades has called Read More
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The following is an obituary for Donald W. Crawford (UC Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin), authored by Elliott Sober, his colleague at Wisconsin, and Yuriko Saito, professor emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, who was one of his students. [Donald W. Crawford in a photo taken in 1989] Donald W. Crawford Remembered (1938-2022) Donald Read More
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The Department of Philosophy at Penn State, known for its efforts to promote diversity in philosophy (see here and here, for example), will once again be putting on a program for prospective graduate students. Penn State’s Cultivating Underrepresented Students of Philosophy (CUSP) program is now accepting applications for its Fall Graduate Workshop. According to Kailah Read More
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Recent additions to the Heap of Links… “Despite Armstrong and Stove’s efforts, Sydney Philosophy continued to radicalise” — the political differences that split University of Sydney Philosophy into two departments for over 25 years, and how David Armstrong became known as “The Beast” “Six Commandments for Getting the Most Out of Graduate School” — a guide by Read More
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A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present. Rens Bod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. A New History of the Humanities traces the origins and evolution of the disciplines of linguistics, historiography, philology, music, art theory, logic, rhetoric, and poetics from antiquity to today. The…
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[Revised entry by David Brink on August 22, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) was the most famous and influential British philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was one of the last systematic philosophers, making significant contributions in logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and social theory. He Read More
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Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges. David W. Livingstone, ed.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. There is general consensus today that liberal arts education is in crisis. Fewer and fewer students are interested in pursuing university degrees in the humanities and social sciences that do…
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“All cruelty springs from weakness.” – Seneca, On the Happy Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Kadri Vihvelin on August 22, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] We believe that we have free will and this belief is so firmly entrenched in our daily lives that it is almost impossible to take seriously the thought that it might be mistaken. We deliberate and make choices, for instance, and Read More
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[New Entry by Douglas W. Portmore on August 22, 2022.] Act-consequentialism is one of today’s leading moral theories. Broadly construed, it holds that the ultimate right-making feature of an act is that its outcome is not evaluatively outranked by that of any available alternative. To evaluatively rank (hereafter, simply “rank”) a set of outcomes is Read More
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[Revised entry by Jeff Malpas on August 22, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Hans-Georg Gadamer is the decisive figure in the development of twentieth century hermeneutics – almost certainly eclipsing, in terms of influence and reputation, the other leading figures, including Paul Ricoeur, and also Gianni Vattimo (Vattimo was himself one of Gadamer’s students). Read More
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“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” – David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Vanity publishing’s predatory tactics. Fame and riches are just around the corner, they promise — just sign on the dotted line Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Solarpunk,” the “New Weird” — new genres of fiction seek to close the gap between our dystopian present and a non-dystopian future Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Vaughan Williams, composer of “Greensleeves” is a rare type of artist — his work is widely loved, but he isn’t widely known Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[Revised entry by William Lewis on August 22, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 – 1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as to render Marxism philosophically respectable, the claims he advanced in Read More
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“Only someone who has his own religion, his own original way of looking at infinity, can be an artist.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Ezra Klein In 2020, I read a book I’d been ignoring for 10 years, Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.” It was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Read More
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So-called “affective polarization” (Iyengar & Westwood, 2015)—deep antagonism between outgroup members—is a pressing contemporary issue. Affectively polarized individuals are often incapable of cooperating, engaging in minimally constructive or respectful ways, as well as learning from and responding appropriately to one another’s differences (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2018). Against this backdrop, politicians on both sides of the aisle have Read More
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One of the most common reactions I’ve seen to the recent surge of interest in longtermism is to worry about its implications for abortion. Let’s see if we can put such fears to rest. First, I think it’s worth situating this pattern of reasoning in relation to other examples. Imagine thinking that the only way Read More
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Often, I have the sensation that we live in a world of pure magic. That everything we think we know is the result of a fairy who spread some pixie dust on the real world, transforming it into an alternate reality where people can fly. Yet, it is so incredibly easy to convince people Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I have written two papers that get regularly desk rejected. I’ve just created an excel spreadsheet to track that. These are papers that are the result of the realisation of a research project I’ve got some external funding. Several people who are more Read More
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophers are among the winners. They and their funded projects are: Todd Buras (Baylor University) (w/ co-project directors Phillip Donnelly and Angel Parham) Disputatio and the Pursuit of Wisdom in the Humanities A two-week summer seminar for schoolteachers Read More
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In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy at UC Merced, shares some new data about graduate programs in philosophy that she and her team at Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) have collected and analyzed. New Data about Philosophy Graduate Programs by Carolyn Dicey Jennings Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis Read More
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The limits of free speech have been discussed since ancient times. Particularly today, we find ourselves confronted with the need to weigh free speech against other values like inclusivity, respect and tolerance of other viewpoints and religions. We look at the arguments of philosopher Ronald Dworkin in defence of free speech. Today, we are almost Read More
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Well, that went by way too fast. The first ever Daily Nous Extended Summer Quasi-Hiatus is over. If you have news to share, send it along. DN will ramp back up to normal operating speed over the next week or two, returning to the regular publishing of news and other items about the philosophy profession, Read More
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Jarosław Duraj. The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin. Peter Lang Press, 2021. Jarosław Duraj has penned an important study of Eric Voegelin’s philosophy in The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin. Analyzing the role of metaxy in Voegelin’s thought is no small undertaking, but…
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“Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Read More
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The 54-year-old woman presented as burrowed into some unhappiness while having achieved a good deal of professional success. The mother of two and the husband of one, she was the main source of financial support. They lived in a slightly decrepit midcentury modern house near the university where she worked. Years into her analysis she Read More
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Forty-six application, 5 interviews, 2 callbacks, and zero offers — Bill Deresiewicz on the academic job market in the humanities Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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What kind of weapon are economic sanctions? And are they an alternative to war, or just another version of it? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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When did racism begin? Scholars have long considered it a product of Western modernity, but that’s beginning to change Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Love truth, but pardon error.” – Voltaire, Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It is not lack of strength that makes a self lose itself in possibility. What is really missing is the strength to obey, to yield to the necessary in one’s self, what might be called one’s limits.” – Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Donald Robertson One of the most commonly asked questions about Stoicism is whether there are any novels dealing with this philosophy. The question often gets quite varied responses, including lots of references to poker-faced or Read More
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2022.08.07 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Mattia Riccardi, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2021, 249pp., $70.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198803287. Reviewed by Christopher Fowles, University of Oxford The opening book of Beyond Good and Evil concludes with the claim that psychology is “once again the path to the fundamental problems” Read More
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2022.08.06 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Onora O’Neill, A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 150pp., $12.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781108986816. Reviewed by Mathias Risse, Harvard University Published by Cambridge University Press, the A-Philosopher-Looks-At-Series has philosophers explore phenomena that are of broad interest and do so in a Read More
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2022.08.08 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Kaitlyn Creasy, The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche: Thinking Differently, Feeling Differently, Palgrave Macmillian, 2020, 200pp., $89.99 (hbk), ISBN 9783030371326. Reviewed by Paul Katsafanas, Boston University One of Nietzsche’s chief concerns is nihilism. Here is a partial list of things that Nietzsche calls Read More
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Todd Still and Jason Myers, eds. Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. “Any scholar approaching the New Testament is confronted with a multiplicity of tasks. There is the time period in which the text under discussion was written, the way in which it was written, and the…
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“The world was precarious… People could be subtracted from it with swift bad math. If one might die at any moment, one must live!” – Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Plan difficult tasks through the simplest tasks. Achieve large tasks through the smallest tasks.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Lin tr. (Ch 63) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Peter Jones on August 20, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A group right is a right held by a group as a group rather than by its members severally. The “group” in “group right” describes the nature of the right-holder; it does not describe the mere fact that the right is Read More
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“You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind — things that exist only there — and clear out space for yourself: by comprehending the scale of the world; by contemplating infinite time; by thinking of the speed with which things change… the narrow space between our birth and death, the infinite time Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Steve Nadis Around 450 BCE, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had some time to think. The Greek mathematician was in prison for claiming the sun was not a god, but rather an incandescent rock as big as Read More
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[New Entry by Willi Goetschel on August 20, 2022.] Margarete Susman stands out as a distinct voice among the first generation of German women in philosophy in the 20th century. In her capacity as a philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist, she was a regular member of the circle of Georg Simmel, which included Martin Buber, Read More
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Thomas A. Spragens. Capitalism and Democracy: Prosperity, Justice and the Good Society. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Professor Spragens specializes in modern political thought and theories of liberal democracy and is the author of many noteworthy books. His outstanding oeuvre includes Understanding Political Theory (1976); The Irony of Liberal Reason…
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“Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.” – Albert Camus, Selected Essays and Notebooks Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Céline’s writing does not just indict mankind. It casts us as consummately terrible, as perfectly bad as badness can be Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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What makes a millennial: An affinity for skinny jeans and avocado toast, or frustration at societal failures? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival. Considered square in their own time, their music is more vital now than ever Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive.” – Read More
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“I have been pitiless in my criticism of the economists: for them I confess that, in general, I have no liking. The arrogance and the emptiness of their writings, their impertinent pride and their unwarranted blunders, have disgusted me.” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Here are some examples of really, really bad science and philosophy by Massimo Pigliucci My Philosophy as Way of Life (PWOL) series of essays has now being going on since July 2018, and has produced 403 articles and counting. Naturally, people have a tendency to focus on the latest entries, but — if I may be forgiven for saying Read More
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Helen’s interesting post yesterday, ‘The journals we don’t write in, because they don’t exist‘, about how philosophy journals might become fruitfully more diverse got me thinking more about a topic that I’ve been thinking about lately: namely, ways that today’s technology and a new publishing model might fruitfully alter how we do research. Readers may Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a job market applicant asks: With the 2022-2023 job market swiftly approaching, I was wondering if the Philosophers’ Cocoon was planning on continuing with the Job Mentoring Program this year. This is my first real go at the market, and I would really appreciate the opportunity Read More
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I’d like to continue our new job-market do’s and don’ts series today by asking search committee members to weigh in on what job candidates should and shouldn’t do in teaching statements. I wrote one post on teaching statements back in 2015 in our Job Market Boot Camp, and another post in our “Notes from both sides Read More
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Sophia F. Gao is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, where her research is guided by philosophers Karyn Lai and Timothy O’Leary. She earned her MPhil in Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sophia grew up in the ancient city of Luoyang, China. It is the Read More
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Yesterday, for some reason, I was rethinking to Einstein’s E=mc2 iconic formula. It is fascinating how popular it has become, and how everyone believes it, even people who are fully convinced that the lunar landings never took place. But what it does actually mean, well, it is another story, and not a simple one. Read More
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[Revised entry by Eric Entrican Wilson and Lara Denis on August 19, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The relationship between Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) and David Hume (1711 – 1776) is a source of longstanding fascination. Kant credited Hume with waking him from his “dogmatic slumber”, and he describes the Critique of Pure Read More
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[Revised entry by Derk Pereboom on August 19, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Among Immanuel Kant’s (1724 – 1804) most influential contributions to philosophy is his development of the transcendental argument. In Kant’s conception, an argument of this kind begins with a compelling premise about our thought, experience, or knowledge, and then reasons to Read More
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The pseudonymous “Robot Philosopher,” following Sam Harris, suggests that since we do not choose our preferences, we do not have free will. This is an odd line of attack for a determinist because the concept of a preference is mind-dependent. We never refer to mindless phenomena as having “preferences,” unless metaphorically, and determinists cannot allow…
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[Revised entry by Penelope Mackie and Mark Jago on August 18, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, properties.html] The notion of transworld identity – ‘identity across possible worlds’ – is the notion that the same object exists in more than one possible world (with the actual world treated as one of the possible worlds). It Read More
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“Words are loaded pistols.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, What Is Literature? Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Adam Moore and Ken Himma on August 18, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Intellectual property is generally characterized as non-physical property that is the product of original thought. Typically, rights do not surround the abstract non-physical entity; rather, intellectual property rights surround the control of physical manifestations or expressions of ideas. Read More
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For Louise Bourgeois, pain was an unavoidable condition of life, and no artistic “remedies or excuses” could lessen its intensity Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Purveyors of ideas — whether religious or literary in nature — are followed by violence. Salman Rushie is the latest in this long line Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Forced to sign a document asserting no ill-treatment in 1938, Sigmund Freud added, “I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.” – Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
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The space of possible journals in philosophy is much bigger than what is actually on offer. Consider the most prestigious journals (an exercise done every few years) and what appears there: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (not much phenomenology published there), Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Mind (OK. Mind is a cool title), and Noûs. These are generalist, but not really. Read More
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“It’s one thing to say, ‘Hey, we’re on the territory of the Mississaugas or the Anishinaabek and the Haudenosaunee.’ It’s another thing to say, ‘We’re on the territory of the Anishinaabek and the Haudenosaunee and here’s what that compels me to do” – Hayden King, 2019. At the recent 2022 APA Pacific Division Meeting in Read More
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“Neither the existence nor the nonexistence of the self is in any way established. Without that establishment, how will there be the establishment of the existence or nonexistence of the defilements [i.e. desire, aversion, and delusion]? So these defilements belong to something, yet no such thing is established. Without something [to be their locus], the Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] As the sun set over Maury Island, just south of Seattle, Ben Goertzel and his jazz fusion band had one of those moments that all bands hope for — keyboard, guitar, saxophone and lead singer coming Read More
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I’d like to continue our new job-market do’s and don’ts series today by asking search committee members to weigh in on what job candidates should and shouldn’t do on CVs. I wrote two posts on CVs in our Job-Market Boot Camp series back in 2015 and 2019, but still, I think it might be good Read More
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Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” falls into that delicious category for me, of classical pieces I discover upon awakening. On weekdays I set my iPad alarm to an HD classical station and at 4:06am the music pierces my dreams, awakening me in the kindest of ways (until the “real” alarm blasts me out of…
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[New Entry by Friederike Moltmann on August 17, 2022.] Natural language ontology is the study of the ontology (ontological categories, structures, and notions) implicit in natural language. Natural language ontology is part of “descriptive metaphysics” to use Strawson’s term (1959), as opposed to what Fine (2017a) calls “foundational metaphysics”, metaphysics whose interest is in what Read More
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I don’t enjoy competition. By that, I’m not intending to reject anyone’s marketplace of skills or services. It’s just my sincere personal confession. For example, I was a natural athlete as a child. But later, when events like foot races got more organized, with grownups setting them up and people cheering from the sidelines, it…
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“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journals Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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William MacAskill, via a utilitarian approach to population ethics, makes the moral case for space settlement. That should raise an eyebrow Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Is “degrowth” the solution to the climate crises? Or is it, as Andrew McAfee contends, “the worst idea on the planet” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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America’s “smartest” people. Mensa’s Annual Gathering is a reminder that intelligence and test-taking are very different talents Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the grain in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had Read More
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[Revised entry by John Krummel on August 17, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Kūkai (774 – 835CE) is one of the intellectual giants of Japan, who ought not to be ignored in any account of the history of Japanese thought. Among the traditional Buddhist thinkers of Japan, and perhaps even of the whole of Read More
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“It is not possible to reach and approach [the divine] with our eyes or grasp it with our hands…” – Empedocles, Fragments, B133 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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by Massimo Pigliucci A few days ago my friend and co-author Greg Lopez and I co-hosted the 7th edition of Stoic Camp New York, inspired by the original Stoic Camp that another friend and colleague, Rob Colter, has facilitated for several years in Wyoming. It was an unusual edition of Stoic Camp, not only because it was the first Read More
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“An insult to an ideology is not the same as a threat made to a people. It is the opposite of a threat made to a person” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Mark Fisher was little read in his own lifetime. Now his reputation is ascendant as a leftist cultural critic Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Philip Larkin’s penis. Is speculation about the poet’s privates a prurient sideshow or a key to understanding his work? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.” – Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Your ability to control your thoughts — treat it with respect. It’s all that protects your mind from false perceptions — false to your nature, and that of all rational beings.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (3.9) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Catherine Pearson Calling, texting or emailing a friend just to say “hello” might seem like an insignificant gesture — a chore, even, that isn’t worth the effort. Or maybe you worry an unexpected check-in wouldn’t Read More
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Napoleon Bonaparte in full imperial regalia. He got close to creating a European Empire, but he failed utterly in the end. He faced the same problem that other would-be European Emperors faced: fighting on two opposite fronts at the same time. At present, the European Union (another form of European Empire) is facing the Read More
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Kody W. Cooper. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2018; 2022. Thomas Hobbes occupies a special place in the history of philosophy and political theory. One of the progenitors of modernity, various strands of Hobbesian scholarship places him as a materialist and closet atheist, an enemy of…
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“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the power to astonish, and to make you see the world through fresh eyes. But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and Read More
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“Perhaps “cowardice,” that miserable, despicable, much-abused weakness of the underworld, is not such a vice after all. Perhaps it is even a virtue. Think of Dostoevsky and his heroes, think of Hamlet. If the underground man in us were afraid of nothing, if Hamlet was naturally a gladiator, then we should have neither tragic poetry Read More
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“However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. Whatever cannot become the object of discourse ─ the truly sublime, the truly horrible or the uncanny ─ may find human voice Read More
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What should billionaires do? People love to criticize billionaire philanthropy, e.g. as “undemocratic”. I find this so weird. Given that billionaires exist, would you rather they spent their money on caviar, private jets and luxury yachts? I wish more billionaires (and millionaires, and upper-middle class folks like the fancy professors who level these critiques) spent Read More
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[Books I’ve read that I think may be of general interest. See also my book club entries under essays.] Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history Read More
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2022.08.02 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Mark Christian Thompson, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory, The University of Chicago Press, 2022, 195pp., $26.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780226816425. Reviewed by William Paris, University of Toronto Studies in Black philosophy or Black critical theory are increasingly concerned with the distinction between Black Read More
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2022.08.03 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Colin Bird, Human Dignity and Political Criticism, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 276pp., $99.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781108832021. Reviewed by Ariel Zylberman, University at Albany, SUNY The concept of human dignity encapsulates three powerful ideals: all human beings, rather than those belonging to some socioeconomic elite, Read More
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2022.08.04 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Ingmar Persson, Morality from Compassion, Oxford University Press, 2021, 145pp. $60.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192845535. Reviewed by Colin Marshall, University of Washington, Seattle In his most recent book, Ingmar Persson engages with a cluster of issues connected to compassion. His discussion throughout engages with the Read More
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2022.08.05 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Barbara Herman, The Moral Habitat, Oxford University Press, 2021, 249pp., $40.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192896353. Reviewed by Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame This is an outstanding book: wide-ranging, beautifully written, well-organized, tightly argued, worth reading by any philosopher. It builds on Barbara Herman’s earlier Read More
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[Revised entry by Graham Priest, Francesco Berto, and Zach Weber on August 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A dialetheia is a sentence, (A), such that both it and its negation, (neg A), are true. If falsity is assumed to be the truth of negation, a dialetheia is a sentence which is both true Read More
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Donald Bloxham. Why History?: A History, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020 & History and Morality, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. The identical date that these two impressive volumes on the nature of the historical enterprise were published and that were written by the same author is just one indication that they are…
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[Revised entry by David Hills on August 12, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Metaphor is a poetically or rhetorically ambitious use of words, a figurative as opposed to literal use. It has attracted more philosophical interest and provoked more philosophical controversy than any of the other traditionally recognized figures of speech…. Originally appeared on Read More
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[Revised entry by Peter King and Andrew Arlig on August 12, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Peter Abelard (1079 – 21 April 1142) [‘Abailard’ or ‘Abaelard’ or ‘Habalaarz’ and so on] was the pre-eminent philosopher and theologian of the twelfth century. The teacher of his generation, he was also famous as a poet and Read More
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“Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Read More
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What happens when a brilliant thinker gets ensnared in the myth-making power of his own prose? Consider George Kennan Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The distinction between ideas that are unscientific and ideas that are ascientific is crucial but murky Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Tenure is academe’s most important and most embattled idea. Its history is strange and secret Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Suppose that, on your 18th birthday, God offered you a “double or nothing” gamble on your continued existence: Heads your lifespan doubles; tails you die immediately. (Or on the population of humanity: Heads he makes a copy of Earth in another galaxy; tails he destroys it.) Seems like a bad deal! But why? Gambling with Read More
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[Revised entry by Ross Cameron on August 12, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] An infinite regress is a series of appropriately related elements with a first member but no last member, where each element leads to or generates the next in some sense.[1] An infinite regress argument is an argument that makes appeal Read More
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“It perplexes us that there is no moment at which the thought of a sentence is completely present. Here we see that we are comparing the thought with a thing that we manufacture and possess as a whole. … We are misled by a plausible simile.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar Originally appeared on Philosophy Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Caleb M. Cohoe and Stephen R. Grimm We present an account of what it takes to live a philosophical way of life: practitioners must be committed to a worldview, structure their lives around it, and Read More
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The Oresteia develops upon three levels: the theological, the political, and the ethical. The theological development moves from divisiveness among the gods to the consolidation of the rule of Zeus; the political development moves from Troy to Argos to Athens; and the ethical development moves from will without restraint, to will subject to responsibility, to…
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“All knowledge degenerates into probability.” – David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Whatever transgressions and evil deeds of various kinds there are, all arise through the power of conditioning factors, while there is nothing that arises independently.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (6:25) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Zizek’s value as a thinker, such as it is, lies in the joy he takes in pouncing on the nostrums of both the left and the right Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Human ingenuity has led to penicillin and to repeated atrocities. Does that mean intelligence is a trap? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Elaine Castillo is troubled by the way white readers seek out Black writers as moral arbiters rather than as artists Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind — my wayward heart creates its own misery — Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of Read More
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This blog was originally published on the Ada Lovelace Institute website. It has been reproduced under Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 and with permission from the author. What is the contribution that the arts and humanities can make to our engagement with the increasingly pervasive technology of artificial intelligence? My aim in this short article is Read More
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Well, people have asked for it, so I have reactivated and revamped my YouTube channel. Comments are turned off, because I’m weary of social media. But if you’d like to talk about any of the videos featured on the channel, feel free to do it here. The channel contains the following lists: How to Live Read More
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The Big Bang Hypothesis – which states the universe has been expanding since it began 14 billion years ago in a hot and dense state – is contradicted by the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images, writes Eric Lerner. To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos Read More
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The founding fathers of modern republicanism had no qualms about appealing to the crucial role of the “founder” or “legislator” in establishing and sustaining free and lawful political communities. The American Founders, for example, read their Cicero and Plutarch and were no doubt inspired by the accounts of political nobility found in the pages of…
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In our newest “how can we help you?“, an anonymous professor writes: I have tenure but I am not happy where I live. I won the academic lottery after years on contingent contracts, and then I finally got on the TT and received tenure, yay!! I love my job–I have lovely students and great colleagues Read More
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As the impacts of climate change become more emergent and costly, op-eds have attempted to answer questions of distributive justice. Recently, the most common argument is that we shouldn’t subsidize rebuilding for populations living in high-risk or hazardous areas or areas that require a significant amount of federal aid or compensation post-natural disaster (e.g., populations Read More
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I’m thrilled to announce the publication of the newest book in the Studies in Philosophy of Sport Book Series. In Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport, Aaron Harper defends a new theory of sport—sport realism—to show how rules, traditions, and officiating decisions define the way sport is played. He argues that sport realism, broadly Read More
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Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Biases in AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now an integral part of society. It is used to make high-stakes decisions, such as hiring, admissions, and loan approvals. AI-based decision-making is popular as it is believed to be faster, more accurate, and more consistent than humans. However, there is a huge problem: Read More
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“The process by which man is able to invent his own subjective consciousness into the objective form, considered in all its range, is in truth the highest attribute of man’s nature. All that is really peculiar to humanity, in contradistinction from all other animals, proceeds from this one faculty or power.” – Frederick Douglass, “Lecture Read More
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The lore that philosophers are unemployable may have less to do with their employability and more about the workplace.
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by Massimo Pigliucci These days I’m on a quest for mental tranquillity, what the ancient Greco-Romans called “ataraxia,” or lack of disturbance. Unlike the Epicureans, I don’t take ataraxia to be my chief goal in life — that one remains to be the best human being I can be, as the Stoics counseled. Still, mental tranquillity or serenity Read More
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Not only does panpsychism have questionable value as a philosophical hypothesis; not only is it flat-out refuted by empirical science; but even the very intuitions that motivate panpsychists turn out to be based on unexamined assumptions mistaken for facts, writes Bernardo Kastrup. In a world increasingly confronted with the contradictions of physicalism, an alternative metaphysics Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, G writes: I am an advanced graduate student in a good, but not elite, program. My goal would be to land a teaching oriented job, not a research focused job. I have over 5 papers in good, but not excellent, journals. Here’s my question. I am Read More
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University of Miami’s undergraduate philosophy club is still in its early stages of official recognition. We’re highlighting our process here, which may be helpful to other groups considering formalization. I asked some students studying philosophy if there was an interest in starting a philosophy club. After meeting informally for a semester, we saw that there Read More
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“Nietzsche merely says: ‘No shepherd and one herd, everyone will the same, everyone is the same, everyone is equal. He who feels differently goes voluntarily to the lunatic asylum’” – Leo Strauss “Your first job is to be happy!”—is the advice we should not be surprised to hear from today’s mental health professionals. Yet few,…
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“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world, the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true.” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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What had been a small, eclectic club of philosophers and do-gooders is now worth billions. Things are getting weird for effective altruism Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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John Locke in the New World. What explains the enduring affection of Americans for this liberal philosopher? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Turd in your teeth, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, fible-fable: What counts as an obscenity is always in flux Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“You have to assemble your life yourself — action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it can. No one can keep that from happening.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.32) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this Forefront of Research showcase, Miguel Ángel G. Calderón discusses his Spanish language philosophy blog, Filosofía en la Red, and their biannual digital magazine, Revista, which is now available in English for the first time. Filosofía en la Red is an online platform that seeks to generate and promote philosophy conducted in Spanish and Read More
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“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.” – John Dewey, Democracy and Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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One year ago, Western forces withdrew entirely from Afghanistan, leading to the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban. That was a mistake. Vladimir Putin saw this as a sign of American decline and invaded Ukraine, thinking there would be a limited reaction. That was also an error. NATO, led by the USA, Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m teaching a massive (~300 student) course this fall and looking for tips about how to incentivize attendance. Of course I will make the class as interesting, fun, and interactive (small group discussions/activities, etc.) as possible. But I’m not sure this is enough. Read More
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“We can free ourselves up to pursue a wider range of educational goals when we see that fairness is not an absolute demand for all classroom life, but only one goal among many. And sometimes, we can trade away some degree of fairness in the pursuit of other goals.” The following is a guest post Read More
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What we share as human beings are the unique ability for language and the capacity for friendship. These are like windows opening us up to our essential nature. They are, I suggest, oases in which we can recapture and build new possibilities for dialogue among diverse cultures. Ludwig Wittgenstein said the most difficult thing to…
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“Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order.” – Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads To Freedom Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.” – Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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From Amsterdam to Xiamen, urban waterways are facing the same modern problem: They have become bike graveyards Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The rise of the MFA is a problem for fiction. Why? Writing workshops too often ignore the work’s intended reader Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Jumbo’s ghost. His cause of death (freight train collision) was one of a number of strange elephant-machine run-ins Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalised world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader Read More
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The APA Non-Academic Careers Committee is seeking input and feedback on how it can better serve philosophers in and out of the profession. To this end, the Committee has created a survey: https://delaware.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3JCIC4U196id4ma While the Committee is particularly interested in hearing from philosophers who have left academia or are considering doing so, we would like Read More
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“By paying attention to the opinion of the visible reading public and of the usual reviewers, one falls into the most fatuous confusion.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Prefaces Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Books I’ve read that I think may be of general interest. See also my book club entries under essays.] Stoicism is rather popular these days. This is, perhaps, not surprising, given that we live in turbulent and unpredictable times, precisely the sort of climate that triggered a flourishing of practical life philosophies during the Hellenistic period during Read More
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The West has struggled to predict and later understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin is a big reason for that. His KGB past is still mythologised in the West, and he is often portrayed as either a ruthless strategist or a victim of his own paranoia. Jack Barsky, an ex-KGB agent during the Cold Read More
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I like candy. And I doubt I could bring myself to push someone in front of a train, even to save five other lives. The two may be more closely connected than it seems. Would you sacrifice the M&M to save five carrots? Nye, Plunkett & Ku’s ‘Non-Consequentialism Demystified‘ is a fantastic paper. As summarized Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: “Yay!” I tell myself. “I did it!” After many job-market cycles I managed to get a TT job at a R1 school. It’s what I wanted. Having said yes to half a dozen collaborations throughout the years and twisting my research to fit Read More
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Trash. The word is common in the long history of intellectual disdain for novels enjoyed by women Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Why has the popularity of modernist painting endured, while atonal music has largely vanished? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Stalin’s architect. Boris Iofan’s career reflects the brutal compromises artists make with power Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Michael Baumann imagines what a modern Socratic dialogue might be like.
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Lawrence Evans contemplates Aristotle’s argument that happiness is the ultimate goal of human life, and that it can best be found in philosophical contemplation.
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Dennis Sansom says we shouldn’t be too quick to pluck philosophers out of their own historical contexts in order to put them into ours.
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Neel Burton asks why the master reasoner turned to launching legends.
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This is a revised translation of a post that I published in Italian a few years ago. The concept is described more in detail in my book “Before the Collapse” (2019), The story of how a hummingbird tried to put out a giant forest fire is not common in the English-speaking world, but it is well Read More
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” – Albert Camus, The Rebel Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Diversity of stimulation means novelty, and novelty means challenge to thought. The more activity is restricted to a few definite lines — as it is when there are rigid class lines preventing adequate interplay of experiences — the more action tends to become routine on the part of the class at a disadvantage, and capricious, Read More
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“When a man’s words show the depth of the pain through which he has passed, he is not, indeed, condemned, but the world begins to talk of his tragic state of soul, and to take on a mournful look fitting to the occasion. Others more scrupulous feel that phrases and mournful looks are unfitting, yet Read More
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“We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously. I think I did — but now I knew it, because now I was able to put it into words. But I don’t mean this in the fatalistic Read More
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Jamie Davies. The Apocalyptic Paul: Retrospect and Prospect. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022. “What does it mean to say that Paul was an ‘apocalyptic’ thinker?” The Apostle Paul, more than any other figure in the New Testament, is the most dominating and domineering figure in the decades after the death and resurrection of Jesus…
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“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.” – Seneca, On the Shortness of Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Ben Jones. Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. In his famous work, The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn declared, “revolutionary millenarianism and mystical anarchism are with us still.” Cohn’s assertion followed the preceding decade of scholarship on the so-called…
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“Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Peter Vanderschraaf and Giacomo Sillari on August 5, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] A proposition (A) is mutual knowledge among a set of agents if each agent knows that (A). Mutual knowledge by itself implies nothing about what, if any, knowledge anyone attributes to anyone else. Suppose each student arrives Read More
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[Revised entry by Gary Gutting and Johanna Oksala on August 5, 2022. Changes to: Main text] Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He has had strong influence not only in philosophy but also in a wide range of humanistic and social scientific disciplines…. Read More
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When men become gods, they are beholden to their believers, and worshippers have plans for their deities Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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As a young woman, Cynthia Ozick immersed herself in German, steeped herself in Goethe, and correspondended with a Nazi soldier Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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T.S. Eliot, air-raid warden: “The first thing to do, when you hear the Syrens… is to have a good Piss: after that you are ready for the Jerry” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“I feel a great thirst for knowledge and an impatient eagerness to advance, also satisfaction at each progressive step. There was a time when I thought that all this could constitute the honor of humanity, and I despised the mob, which knows nothing about it. Rousseau set me straight. This dazzling excellence vanishes; I learn Read More
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Love and trust make the best relationships
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[Revised entry by Ali Hasan and Richard Fumerton on August 5, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Foundationalism is a view about the structure of (epistemic) justification or knowledge. The foundationalist’s thesis in short is that (a) there are some “basic” or “foundational” beliefs that have a positive epistemic status – e.g., they count Read More
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David Elstein is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Elstein specializes in Chinese philosophy and although his initial training and research was in pre-Qin thought, his more recent work has focused on contemporary Chinese philosophy, particularly Confucian political thought. His past work includes the Dao Companion to Read More
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“Expel nature with a pitchfork, but every time it will return as conqueress to stealthily break through bilious aversions” (Horace, Epistles, 1.10)[1] Modern discourse has expelled nature with a pitchfork only to replace it (preemptively, given Horace’s warning) with a manageable replica. Old nature is a mysterious arena inhabited by the echoes of ancestral Gods;[2]…
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“Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Listening not to me, but to the logos, it is wise to agree that all things are one.” – Heraclitus, Fragments, B50 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Velvet gowns, scattered rose petals, pearl necklaces — the clichés of the 20th-century sex scene stem from the writing of Elinor Glyn Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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What exactly is “content”? Who produces it? Why and how did it come to be viewed as “essential”? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Admit it, you’ve claimed to have read a book you’ve at most merely browsed. It’s OK, don’t feel ashamed Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“There is no legitimate limit to the satisfaction of the needs of a human being except as imposed by necessity and by the needs of other human beings. The limit is only legitimate if the needs of all human beings receive an equal degree of attention.” – Simone Weil, “Draft for a Statement of Human Read More
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[Revised entry by Andrea Staiti and Luca Oliva on August 2, 2022. Changes to: math.html] Heinrich Rickert was born in Gdańsk (then Danzig, in Prussia) on May 25th 1863. His father Heinrich Rickert Sr. (1833 – 1902) was a politician and editor in Berlin. Heinrich Sr. was a liberal democrat particularly invested in the cause Read More
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Western culture today equates the pursuit of happiness with seeking out pleasure and comfort. But without the pursuit of experiences and goals that entail a certain degree of suffering, our lives would be meaningless, argues Paul Bloom in this interview. The fundamental thesis of your new book, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I have some questions about writing and situating oneself in the literature. Most commonly, I see people situate themselves by arguing against others, and I get that people disagree. But I’m wondering if there’s more positive ways to situate oneself in the literature Read More
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As many readers of the Cocoon may recall, each job season the Cocoon hosts two job-market threads: A job-market discussion thread (the present thread): to commiserate about the market, discuss particular job ads, the market in general, questions about application materials, interviewing, alt-ac opportunities, and so on. A job-market reporting thread: to post news about interviews, Read More
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“I suspect I’m not alone among philosophers in finding colloquia almost universally frustrating: the speakers are more interesting than the conventional talk allows them to be…” The following is a guest post by Kieran Setiya, Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It is part of the series of weekly guest posts by different authors Read More
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As with The Republic, in The Gorgias Plato is trying to defend the idea that it is worth it to try to be a good person even when it does not seem to be in your interests to do so. That is a surprisingly hard position to defend when dealing with cynics, especially those with…
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“A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.” – Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The word “tourist” is at least 250 years old. What began with moral purpose has often ended in destruction Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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For Elizabeth Jameson, life with multiple sclerosis is one of constraint. She’s found freedom in cursing with abandon Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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French has no word for homesickness. Chinese lacks a term for self-esteem. Are we to conclude that such emotions aren’t universal? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Why do people read? The answer, as regards the great majority, is: They don’t.” – Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“They say it is impossible to set a bound between the “I” and society. Naïveté! Crusoes are to be found not only on desert islands. They are there, in populous cities. … Loneliness, desertion, a boundless, shoreless sea, on which no sail has risen for tens of years, — do not many of our contemporaries Read More
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The Blog of the APA is proud to welcome alicehank winham as the new Reports from Abroad series editor. alicehank studied BA Philosophy and Theology at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, where ze is now pursuing an MPhil Buddhist Studies at Lady Margaret Hall through the Faculty of Oriental Studies soon to be renamed the Read More
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by Massimo Pigliucci [Part of an occasional series presenting academic papers I have published but that may be of general interest. Full list with links here.] We all want to live a “good life,” yet relatively few people pause to critically ponder what that might mean in the first place. This is interesting because it implies Read More
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The idea that happiness is more than just how we feel at any one moment has been around since Aristotle. Today, psychology draws a distinction between emotional well-being in the present and overall life satisfaction. This distinction, however, is a mistake. Life satisfaction is just a small part of our overall emotional well-being. Happiness is Read More
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In our July “how can we help you?” thread, G asks: I wonder if people can share some helpful tips to teach non-argumentative texts. I am trained as an analytic philosopher, usually starting my intro class with some basic concepts in logic and arguments. My classes also usually focus on analyzing and evaluating arguments. When Read More
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A few months ago I decided to retire. Actually, I run away screaming from my university, and I never set foot again in my department afterward. And I do not plan to set foot in it again, ever. So, how is the life of a retiree scientist? It is a dream. Freedom from bureaucracy, paperwork, Read More
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2022.08.01 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Ion Tănăsescu, Psychologie, Seiendes, Phantasie bei Franz Brentano, de Gruyter, 2022, 514pp., $126.99 (hbk), ISBN 9783110523782. Reviewed by Robin D. Rollinger, The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences In this book the author examines three aspects of Franz Brentano’s early philosophical Read More
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“Happiness is thought to involve leisure,” Aristotle tells us, “for we engage in business in order that we may have leisure, and we engage in war in order that we may have peace.” A life spent at work is like a country in a perennial state of war. Many people believe that One of the Read More
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As mentioned in my Summer 2022 Plans, to help keep readers up to date with what’s happening in the philosophy world this summer, I’ll be be creating a space each month for individuals and institutions to share news. Here is the one for August 2022. If you have news of the sort that would typically appear Read More
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After Russell Kirk published his dissertation in 1953 under the title The Conservative Mind, it became a best-seller. Among the ranks of Robert Nisbet and Richard Weaver, Russell Kirk became known as a father of post-war traditionalist conservatism and a prominent public intellectual. The Conservative Mind was an important book, especially insofar as it helped…
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The usual weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books is a monthly report this summer. Here’s the edition for the past month. SEP New: Moral Theory by Julia Driver. Normativity in Metaethics by David Copp and Justin Morton. Gene by Robert Meunier. Revised: Harriet Taylor Read More
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“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Christianity has lost its traditional connection to the arts,” says Dana Gioia. It’s forgotten “that beauty is the most direct and potent way to communicate the divine” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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When was the idea of “normal” born? It began with the chest measurements of 5,738 Scottish soldiers Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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On the internet, nothing is forgotten. So what will become of nostalgia, which depends on unreliable memories and half-true anecdotes? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“We [are] strongly inclined to believe that our continued existence is a deep further fact, distinct from physical and psychological continuity, and a fact that must be all-or-nothing. This is not true. Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was Read More
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2022.07.05 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jay L. Garfield, Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford University Press, 2022, 231pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190907648. Reviewed by Richard P. Hayes, The University of New Mexico This book is a contribution to the series “Buddhist Philosophy for Philosophers,” which so far also has Read More
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2022.07.06 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Michael Tye, Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness: Through the Looking Glass, Oxford University Press, 2021, 134pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198867234. Reviewed by David Papineau, King’s College London/Graduate Center, City University of New York Is consciousness vague? It is certainly sometimes difficult to decide Read More
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2022.07.07 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Anna Marmodoro, Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2021, 223pp., $74.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197577158. Reviewed by Evan Rodriguez, Idaho State University In this expansive book, Anna Marmodoro applies insights from her previous work on Anaxagoras, Aristotle, and contemporary metaphysics to offer Read More
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2022.07.08 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger, Deleuze, Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 184pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781474476089. Reviewed by Henry Somers-Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London While there are references to Kierkegaard scattered through Gilles Louis René Deleuze’s work, these references have largely Read More
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“If you separate religion entirely from morality, then you’ll get the real energy of evil in man, the horrible, cruel, raging, and inhuman principle that has dwelt in his spirit from the very beginning. Here the division of the indivisible is punished most terribly.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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In this interview, we talk to Peter Trudgill about how the structure of speaker communities may influence the structure of languages. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 27 Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself: stems and inflectional classes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Dahl, Östen. 2004. The growth and maintenance of linguistic Read More
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This July, as an American publication, we celebrated the independence of our republic. We give thanks for the freedom that we enjoy which allows us to bring this publication to the world. It is easy to critique imperfections, it is harder to enjoy the blessings of liberty that we do enjoy. Here at VOEGELINVIEW, we…
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I tried out Jasper AI, a computer program that generates natural language text. It turns out that it can create near-perfect output that would easily pass for a human-written undergraduate philosophy paper. The video linked below shows the whole process. What is Jasper AI? Jasper is an online AI program that uses the now famous Read More
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Cain, Patrick N, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Block, eds. Democracy and the History of Political Thought. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021 There is a tendency to think of democracy as a specific regime (in existence in Athens for about one hundred years, present in some way in some other poleis as well as…
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“So always risk your skin and never fear losing it, because it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.” – Ali Smith, How to Be Both (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” – Albert Camus, Notebooks Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Knowing contentment you avoid tarnish, and knowing when to stop you avoid danger. Try it and your life will last and last.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Hinton tr. (Ch 44) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” – C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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David Bentley Hart. You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. You Are Gods is a book which, it would not be controversial to say, invites the reader to consider and accept a number of highly contentious theological claims. This is unlikely to be disputed by the…
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[Revised entry by Dale E. Miller on July 29, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 – 1858) poses a unique set of problems for an encyclopedist. The usual approach to writing an entry on a historical figure, namely presenting a straightforward summary of their major works and then offering a few Read More
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“No alcohol, no renown, no women, no newspapers, no honors”: Nietzsche before the breakdown Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The influence of Jews on American literature once seemed pervasive. How the people of the book made it in the book business Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Gary Maynard was an adjunct criminology professor studying the mindset of arsonists. Now he’s in jail, accused of arson Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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What does the fool do when they are irritated by their conditions enough that they feel like tearing into everything? They let the irritation reach their soul. They let another’s beliefs or practices trouble them. Like I said, they are foolish. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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I have been posting a series of review of the recent report to the Club of Rome “Limits and Beyond.” Here is a recent post by Ian Sutton on his blog, “Netzero205.” Many people still think that the original work of 1972, “The Limits to Growth” was “wrong.” They’ll have to change their minds, Read More
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Here is the latest complete audio commentary series from my Stoic Meditations, dedicated to Seneca’s On Providence. The work, in the form of a dialogue, was probably composed around 64 CE (Seneca died the following year). The subject matter is the Stoic notion of Providence and what later became known as the problem of evil. You Read More
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Liam Kofi Bright, Remco Heesen, and I have argued for transitioning toward a crowdsourced approach to peer review. Yet, one common concern raised to our alternative approach is that it would effectively undermine anonymized review–the main mechanism in our current system for mitigating bias in favor and against authors on the basis of knowing their Read More
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Since Russia waged war on Ukraine, many have tried to draw a direct parallel to China and Taiwan, with some senior Taiwanese officials even arguing that in light of recent events, China will delay their invasion of Taiwan. This, argues Nigel Inkster – former director of operations for MI6, is false. China will have drawn Read More
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Kobi Finestone is a doctoral candidate at Duke University who will be taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University in Summer 2022. His research lies at the intersection of philosophy and economics and is primarily focused on the epistemic capacities of scientific models and the Read More
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Never more than during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has been reminded of the importance of science and the need to trust scientific advice and model-based public health policy. The delicate triangulation among scientific experts, policymakers, and the public, which is so central to fight misinformation and mistrust, has shone a light on a well-entrenched Read More
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[Revised entry by Jeff Jordan on July 29, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Unlike the Cosmological Argument or the Design Argument, theistic pragmatic arguments are not arguments for the proposition that God exists; they are arguments that believing that God exists is rational. The most famous theistic pragmatic argument is Pascal’s Wager. Though we Read More
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French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) was born in Valence, Drôme. He came from a devout family of Huguenots (a Protestant minority). He was orphaned at an early age—his mother died shortly after his birth, his dad was killed at the start of World War I, and he was raised by his grandparents. He was a…
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“Teaching by precept is a long road, but short and beneficial is the way by example.” – Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“What person who analyses things thoroughly would take delight in a form which, as has been demonstrated, is like a dream? And since the body, as demonstrated, does not exist, then what woman or what man is there?” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:87) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The best writers unfreeze us. They override the notion that we’re helpless. Consider Ellison, Didion, Pynchon, O’Connor, Bishop Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Sheila Heti is a crusader for art in an era of political moralism. Why is that plain truth so hard for her critics to see? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The unadulterated Elizabeth Hardwick. A new collection of her essays focuses on the concrete realities that shaped her life Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.” – George Eliot, Middlemarch Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Over the past year, I’ve been working a lot on expanding utilitarianism.net—an open-access website that offers: A textbook introduction to utilitarianism that is clear and accessible, yet philosophically sophisticated—perfect for use in undergraduate teaching. Guest essays from leading experts on more specific topics related to utilitarianism. Supplemental resources, including a study guide to Singer’s ‘Famine, Read More
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The received view in physics is that the direction of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, according to which the passage of time is measured by ever-increasing disorder in the universe. This view, Julian Barbour argues, is wrong. If we reject Newton’s faulty assumptions about the existence of absolute space and time, Read More
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Following Helen’s recent post on finding “first readers” for paper drafts, a reader writes in: [S]ome authors … lack a community of readers who can provide feedback. Why not something similar to the dissertation groups but for papers and junior academics? This is not helpful for everyone, but I guess those from small departments, etc., Read More
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[Revised entry by Maria Carla Galavotti on July 17, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Wesley Charles Salmon (1925 – 2001) was a central figure in twentieth century philosophy of science. Working in the tradition of Hume, Salmon developed a sophisticated version of empiricism combining a genuinely probabilistic approach with realism about theoretical entities. Salmon’s Read More
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Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, is a book whose layers of meaning a counterpoint to so much of the shallowness of our culture. The fact that this contemporary piece of fiction demanded an academic treatment of this kind points to its literary depth and cultural impact. In this essay my aim is to go in a…
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“The invisible tissue of civilization: so thin, so easily rendable. It’s a miracle that it exists at all.” – Lauren Groff, Arcadia (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir; also that the moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant has grown.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Read More
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“Time flows, life is a stream, people say, and so on. I do not notice it. Time stands still, and I with it.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by John Bishop and Daniel J. McKaughan on July 15, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Questions about faith have inspired centuries of philosophical and theological reflection, particularly, though by no means exclusively, as faith is understood within the Christian branch of the Abrahamic religions. What is faith? What makes faith reasonable or Read More
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When I was young, I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone. -Albert Camus …
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“To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that they’re human too, that they act out of ignorance, against their will, and that you’ll both be dead before long. And, above all, that they haven’t really hurt you. They haven’t diminished your Read More
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“I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[Revised entry by Emily A. E. Thomas on July 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Australian-born philosopher Samuel Alexander (1859 – 1938) was a prominent figure in early twentieth-century British philosophy. He is best known for advancing “British Emergentism”, a movement that held mind “emerges” from matter. Alexander rejected idealism, and accordingly can be Read More
Two weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. The past few months have been a whirlwind of surgeries, IVs, MRIs, and medications. And while the physical pain and uncertainty about my future have weighed most heavily on me, I am also struck by the forced intimacy I have endured. My body has forced Read More
Here we go again, seems like I just need to write one more essay about free will… by Massimo Pigliucci Imagine that the two of us, dear reader, are living in the year 31 BCE on the western coast of Greece. It is the evening of September the first, and we have been paying attention to Read More
The idea that society is ordered from the top-down originated from Thomas Hobbes’ seminal 1651 book, Leviathan. And this idea still resonates strongly today: we agree to a social contract in which we give up some of our freedoms to the state, in the hope that it will ensure order and our protection. Yet here, Read More
Philosophers, physics, and mathematics friends: I recently received a promising ‘revise-and-resubmit’ from a good philosophy of physics journal for a paper on General Relativity and cosmology. However, the referees are asking for mathematics beyond my capabilities. So I’m hoping to find some co-author(s) with sufficient expertise to work with to (hopefully) bring the revisions to Read More
In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I am wondering about the norms of supervising students, with regard to the content. For one, it’s clear that one needs to suggest readings and clues, read the drafts, provide comments, suggestions and criticism. But how much more? For example, should you suggest Read More
The notion of a necessary connection between knowledge and virtue is all but alien to our times. The Machiavellian revolution and the “inversion of values” it involved deserves credit for our current situation, in which both morally-mercenary or amoral knowledge and blind virtue contribute to building a technocratic society in which goodness is supposed to… The post The Knowledge and Virtue of the Future appeared first on VoegelinView.
“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus, Discourses Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
“The nature of grief is quite as highly variegated as its causes,” says Joseph Epstein. “Grief, like the devil, is in the details” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
Graydon Carter’s greatest achievement wasn’t editing Vanity Fair. It was creating a mystique Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
The intellectual historians of the last century regarded “game theory” as one of its great achievements. How wrong they were Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
“The sole mission of science is to light the road.” – Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
[New Entry by David Copp and Justin Morton on July 12, 2022.] You think to yourself, “I shouldn’t drink another Dr. Pepper. I’ve had two already”. But the claim that you shouldn’t drink another seems like a very different kind of claim than the claim that you’ve had two Dr. Peppers already. Broadly (and vaguely) Read More
“Contests between philosophers’ accounts reveal how easily the swiftness of thought makes our confidence in our opinion change.” – Gorgias, Fragments, B11 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The current cosmological model only works by postulating the existence of dark matter – a substance that has never been detected, but that is supposed to constitute 75% of the universe. But a simple test suggests that dark matter does not in fact exist. If it did, we would expect lighter galaxies orbiting heavier ones Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, T asks: Can anyone provide or point me to journal rankings for philosophy of religion? I’m not sure if there are any journal rankings here, but if there are, feel free to link to them. Otherwise, it might be helpful to T to hear from readers Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, E asks: Suppose you’re choosing between two papers to use as a writing sample. One is the best paper you’ve written to date. It was published a few years ago. The other is a new manuscript. You have evidence that it’s a good paper. Which should Read More
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In this episode I chat to Brian Earp. Brian is a Senior Research Fellow with the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford. He is a prolific researcher and writer in psychology and applied ethics. We talk a lot about how Brian ended up where he is, the value of applied research and the importance Read More
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This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). This collection of thirty-one new essays will focus on ethical questions raised by institutional policies of colleges and universities. As a service to readers, over the next several months the APA Blog will Read More
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“Over 70% of our students… reported being more likely than before to listen to someone who held an opposing viewpoint…” The following is a guest post* by Wes Siscoe (University of Cologne, University of Graz) and Zachary T. Odermatt (Florida State University. It is part of the series of weekly guest posts by different authors at Daily Nous this summer. Read More
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The Trolley Problem is a potentially morally corrupting piece of pro-murder propaganda with nihilistic tendencies. It imagines a scenario where a runaway trolley can be diverted by pulling a lever in order to save five lives. Unfortunately, this involves murdering an innocent person who would otherwise have been unharmed by the trolley. Murder is defined…
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[Revised entry by Stathis Psillos on July 11, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Scientific theories seem to have an expiry date. If we look at the history of science, a number of theories that once were dominant and widely accepted are currently taught in history of science courses. Will this be the fate of Read More
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“Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.” – Emma Goldman, “Marriage and Love”, Anarchism and Other Essays Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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David Bromwich watches Top Gun and is repulsed by the stink of its catchphrases and righteous slogans Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In order to create a Führermuseum, the Nazis embarked on the greatest looting of art in European history Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In postcolonial India, English was more than a language. It was the promise of social progress Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Cassedy, S. (2022). What Do We Mean when We Talk about Meaning?. Oxford University Press. 216 pages. ISBN: 9780190936907. The title of this book is misleading. Steven Cassedy’s concern is with ‘meaning’ in its most general sense, which he takes to be manifested in the history of discussion about the meaning and purpose of life. Read More
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“Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?” – Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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2022.07.03 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Ruth Boeker, Locke on Persons and Personal Identity, Oxford University Press, 2021, 336pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198846758. Reviewed by David Wörner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ruth Boeker provides the most scholarly and sophisticated book-length study of Locke’s view of personal identity to date. She puts Read More
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2022.07.04 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Filippo Ferrari, Truth and Norms: Normative Alethic Pluralism and Evaluative Disagreements, Lexington Books, 2022, 191pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781793622679. Reviewed by Chase Wrenn, The University of Alabama In this book, Filippo Ferrari gives a new theory of truth’s normative import. He calls it “normative Read More
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“As my idea is the world, in the same way my will is the world-will.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks: 1914-1916 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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2022.07.02 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (eds.), Neuroscience and Philosophy, MIT Press, 2022, 494pp., $65.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780262045438. Reviewed by Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Northern Kentucky University Stemming from a summer seminar series on common projects (or ideas for projects) across philosophy and neuroscience, this Read More
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2022.07.01 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Depicting Deity: A Metatheological Approach, Oxford University Press, 2021, 224pp., $70.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192896452. Reviewed by Georg Gasser, Universität Augsburg In the philosophical guild, we are familiar with metametaphysical and metaethical questions. Metametaphysics concerns the nature, methodology and presuppositions of metaphysical inquiry. Read More
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Deleuze, A Stoic shows Deleuze’s engagement with Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas, reveals a lasting influence on Gilles Deleuze by mapping his provocative reading of ancient Stoicism, unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary philosophy and classics by engaging a vital yet recently rising area of scholarship: continental philosophy’s relationship to Read More
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Biopolitics and Ancient Thought. Edited by Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino. (Classics in Theory.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 240 pages. The volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government. Read More
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In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new perspective on our politics and ethics; they are essential Read More
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We tend to think that leadership is all about the leader, and the qualities that separate them from their followers. But more recently there is a recognition that leadership is better understood when thinking about what connects leaders with their followers. This connection, and its deterioration, is what best explains the end of Boris Johnson’s Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I got a tenured, fairly senior position, as one of the youngest in my country (where I never worked before), just a few years after my PhD.Since I was not in a tenure-track position before, and since it is a department where I Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a grad student asks: I’m a grad student working on my dissertation. There is just so much published in my research area and related areas. I always feel overwhelmed and not know exactly which to read first, and feel guilty that I’m not reading faster than Read More
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The “mousetrap chain reaction” from Disney’s 1957 movie “Our friend, the Atom.” A fascinating experiment that brings a curious question: Why is the mousetrap the only thing you can buy at a hardware story that can create a chain reaction? There must be some deep motives for this uniqueness, but the “mousetrap explosion” has been Read More
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The Poet stretches out his long legs, looks up from contemplating his elegant, old-fashioned brown shoes, addresses the creative writing class, his voice tuned to channel charm. We have hardly met in forty years since long-haired days under dreaming spires, but in a recent review he motioned me off his sacred patch, the poetry of…
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A length of spider’s web startles In thin, shooting brilliance up and Down its fine extent, appearing And disappearing, catching colour In the light, losing it, in a slight Blown shifting to and from the sun. We saw a whole field of these once – Where was it? – as if overlaid – Acres of…
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A year ago, Scott Alexander argued that it’s better to eat beef than chicken, on the (interesting but questionably relevant) grounds that it’s vastly cheaper to offset the climate costs of beef than the animal welfare costs of chicken: Eating beef causes more climate change than eating chicken, but eating chicken causes more animal suffering Read More
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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A certain school of historical thinking may rule the day, but — since Thucydides — all history is revisionist history Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris — Van Gogh, a restless soul, was never capable of settling anywhere for very long Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Adapting to a new energy source is painful. Exhibit A: the universally loathed 19th-century coal merchant Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.” – John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The mutual dependence of men is so great in all societies that scarce any human action is entirely complete in itself, or is performed without some reference to the actions of others, which are requisite to make it answer fully the intention of the agent.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Originally appeared Read More
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“One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That’s the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, ‘I’m going to make a killing.’ It’s not accidental. Only they haven’t got the genuine courage to kill, and they erect a symbol of Read More
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[Revised entry by Edward N. Zalta on July 9, 2022. Changes to: Bibliography, catalog.html] Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (b. 1848, d. 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who worked at the University of Jena. Frege essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the first ‘predicate Read More
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Neema Parvini. The Populist Delusion. Perth, Australia: Imperium Press, 2022. What entails the backlash against populist politics, a political ideology that once held respectable admiration in the institutions of culture? Further, what about the pervasive, both implicit and explicit, argument about white sin and white fragility, which construes everything white to be evil? Populism,…
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“Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.” – James Mill, Essay on Government Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Oh, how tired I am of insufficiency!” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn’t forget where he began; he didn’t try to find out where he would end. He received Read More
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“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands Originally appeared Read More
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Peter Neumann. Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits. Trans. Shelley Frisch. New York: Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, 2022. “I saw the Emperor—this world-soul—riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over…
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[Revised entry by Paul Rusnock and Jan Šebestik on July 8, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] One of the great philosophers of the nineteenth century, Bernard Bolzano (1781 – 1848) made outstanding contributions in a number of fields (for a more comprehensive survey of his thought and biographical details, see Edgar Morscher’s article on Read More
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“The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Adam Green on July 8, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] “Divine hiddenness”, as the phrase suggests, refers, most fundamentally, to the hiddenness of God, i.e., the alleged fact that God is hidden, absent, or silent. In religious literature, there is a long history of expressions of annoyance, anxiety, Read More
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“Perfect storms,” “black swans,” and “bubbles” galore — on Wall Street the market for cliches is booming Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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An animal rights dilemma: Do they earn moral consideration by being like humans, or by being different from us? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In December, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It’s first year of duty could revolutionize astronomy Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[Revised entry by David Konstan on July 8, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The philosophy of Epicurus (341 – 270 B.C.E.) was a complete and interdependent system, involving a view of the goal of human life (happiness, resulting from absence of physical pain and mental disturbance), an empiricist theory of knowledge (sensations, together with Read More
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Photograph by Garry Knight, CC Gifts are valuable and gift-giving norms are common in many societies. There are different ways of characterising the distinctive features of a gift, but the ones commonly singled out are: Gifts are goods or services or experiences That are given voluntarily Without expectation of or demand for payment or reciprocal exchange By one Read More
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“When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.” – Hannah Arendt, “On Violence”, Crises of the Republic Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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This post is part of a two-part series on including race in early modern philosophy curricula. This first part introduces ways to incorporate discussions of race into one’s curriculum. The second installment (publishing next Friday) discusses various reasons one might believe it is important to include such discussions in a modern philosophy course. It was Read More
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Image from “Wired.com” Note that they call the report “infamous” — they are still influenced by the defamation campaign against it carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. The interest on “The Limit to Growth” is returning. 50 years after that a vicious denigration campaign had consigned the report to the trash can of wrong Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a grad student asks: I’d be interested in hearing what people read to get inspired, both in the sense of finding ideas to write about, and in the sense of just generally feeling excited about doing philosophy (ideally, these would be things that inspire you in Read More
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Emma Fieser is currently a second-year philosophy PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in her hometown at the University of Tennessee at Martin where she majored in philosophy and minored in French and studio art. What excites you about philosophy? Learning new ideas and perspectives, Read More
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Michael J. Colebrook. The Recurrence of the End Times. Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. The past decade hasn’t been kind to Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis. The emergence of China as a world power and rival to the United States, not to mention Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has raised…
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“Of all the arts, poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.” – Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“In relation to the absurd, objective approximation is nonsense; for in trying to grasp the absurd, objective knowledge has literally gone broke to its last shilling.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Maurice Hamington on July 7, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Jane Addams (1860 – 1935) was an activist, community organizer, international peace advocate, and social philosopher in the United States during the late 19th century and early 20th century. However, the dynamics of canon formation resulted in her philosophical work being Read More
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[Revised entry by James Fetzer on July 7, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Carl G. Hempel (1905 – 1997) was the principal proponent of the “covering law” theory of explanation and the paradoxes of confirmation as basic elements of the theory of science. A master of philosophical methodology, Hempel pursued explications of initially vague Read More
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[Revised entry by William Uzgalis on July 7, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, influence.html] John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits Read More
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Why write? To elicit pleasure — or pain, or to aid in thinking — or feeling. There’s no one reason Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned.” In the press, Shelley’s death was not cause for grand mourning Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The art of anatomy. To aid his drawings of the human form, Leonardo dissected more than 30 corpses Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“We may distinguish both true and false needs. “False” are those which are superimposed upon the individual by particular social interests in his repression: the needs which perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery, and injustice… Most of the prevailing needs to relax, to have fun, to behave and consume in accordance with the advertisements, to love and Read More
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We tend to think of the laws of nature as fixed. They came into existence along with the universe, and have been the same ever since. But once you start asking why the laws of the universe are what they are, their invariance also comes into question. Lee Smolin is the type of theoretical physicist Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, ECR writes: I am an ECR (~5 years post-PhD) and I am starting to get my first invitations to be an external examiner for PhD and MA theses. Is this something one should list on one’s CV? (It seems prima facie like an indicator of scholarly Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, Ed asks: When going up for tenure and applying for other jobs, are there advantages to mentioning in a job application cover letter that you’re going up for tenure at your current institution but nevertheless deeply serious about the other job to which you’re applying? My Read More
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To pass from reading a contemporary essayist to one of the middle decades of the 20th century is often to enter another world, one of succinct elegance and inborn culture. The Missouri-born Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was a composer and a music critic, one of a select few persons who have successfully written both music and words…
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Several weeks ago, I finished teaching the course Philosophical Foundations of Feminism for the second time. I teach at the University of Rochester, a school that aims to blend the best of a research university and a liberal arts college for its undergraduates. While we are a private R1 with PhD programs in many areas Read More
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Dragon hunting has never, to my knowledge, been deemed the sport of kings since the requisite skills are not confined to any class of people, royal or other. Rather, the know-how is reserved for gifted souls. They know where to grab the dragon. Not by the head. By the tail. I wish I had the…
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“Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.” – Walter Benjamin, “Berlin Chronicle”, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Uriah Kriegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020, xiv+696 p., £110, ISBN 978-0-19-874967-7. The handbook under review collects 31 unpublished papers of varying length (they range from 14 to 32 pages, including bibliography, with a majority of them having ca 20-25 pages). Uriah Kriegel has not only Read More
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“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Maximizing is Merely Ideal Bryan Caplan argues that no-one really believes utilitarianism is true: Bill is a paragon of decency. If he really believed he morally owed vast sums to the poor, he’d skip GenCon and fork over the money. Since he doesn’t, I infer that despite his official position, utilitarianism seems almost as crazy Read More
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Prices are rising. Money is worth less than it did a month ago, and a lot less than it did a year ago. Central banks, who have the ability to reverse inflation by raising interest rates, have been slow to react. They worry that higher interest rates can trigger a recession. But the effects of Read More
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A “more vocational attitude to philosophy is a constant temptation; I still sometimes slip into it now. But what calls me away from it is always just being reminded of the mundane ways in which this is just a living.” The following is a guest post* by Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor of philosophy at the Read More
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In this episode I talk to Regina Rini, Canada Research Chair at York University in Toronto. Regina has a background in neuroscience and cognitive science but now works primarily in moral philosophy. She has the distinction of writing a lot of philosophy for the public through her columns for the Time Literary Supplement and the Read More
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Beauty is communal. We know what beautiful architecture looks like. Tourists travel from all over the world to see the buildings of Italy, the Baptistry in Florence, the Roman Coliseum, and the cathedrals of France. Or, maybe the fanciful towers of Neuschwanstein Castle. Likewise, Western tourists will go to see Hindu temples in India, or…
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“Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.” – Cicero, De Legibus Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Duncan Pritchard, John Turri, and J. Adam Carter on June 27, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The value of knowledge has always been a central topic within epistemology. Going all the way back to Plato’s Meno, philosophers have asked, why is knowledge more valuable than mere true belief? Interest in this Read More
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[Revised entry by Christian Wildberg on June 27, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] “Elias” is the name of an author which, in the course of a complicated history of textual transmission, has become associated with some manuscripts of late-antique commentaries on Aristotle and Porphyry. On the basis of a certain similarity in style and Read More
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“Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favour of fortune have this most serious fault – those whom they have injured they also hate.” – Seneca, On Anger Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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What is the art world and why does it exist? At the most basic level, to answer the question: Is it art? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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On Liberty is a canonical text of classical liberalism, yet John Stuart Mill considered himself a socialist. How come? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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All books have become antiquated in their material form. As a result, the printed book becomes rarer and more important Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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This is an expanded version of a thread I did recently on self-promotion. Many academics find the concept of self-promotion on social media somewhat icky, but it is often necessary, especially for junior academics. I find self-promotion by others very useful because it gives me the opportunity to learn new things from them, especially outside Read More
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“I am not unacquainted with the perplexities and dangers of life, I do not fear them, and I encounter them buoyantly.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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This dewdrop world, is a dewdrop world and yet and yet 露の世は露の世ながらさりながら It is said that the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa wrote these lines upon the death of his daughter (tsuyu no yo wa tsuyu no yo nagara sari nagara). It is poetry at its best: it hints much more than it says. Here, I start from Read More
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The Blog Prize folks are eliciting ideas on how to “build agency” (or practical ambition). I’ll be interested to see what others come up with, since I often find exercising agency to be extremely draining—so much so that I was moved to write a paper, ‘Willpower Satisficing’, arguing (amongst other things) that it’s demands on Read More
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E.M. Forster’s 1909 fable, ‘The Machine Stops’ – which depicts a world state in which the inhabitants live inside vast underground cities, isolated from one another except for an electronic mass communications network – is a powerful story of technological alienation. The science fiction tale not only comments upon a burgeoning screen culture but it Read More
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Several weeks ago, I learned that my most recent job search yielded what should be a long-term position. In the upcoming fall, I’ll be joining the University of Arizona as a member of both its philosophy department and the W. A. Franke Honors College as an Assistant Professor of Practice. While the position is not Read More
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The usual weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books is a monthly report this summer. Here’s the edition for the past month. SEP New: Bayesian Epistemology by Hanti Lin. The Moral/Conventional Distinction by Edouard Machery and Stephen Stich. Theories of Biological Development by Melinda Bonnie Read More
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Environmental Ethics is one of the major fields in applied ethics. Applied ethics as a field in philosophy is rather new. It had its roots in the United States during the late 1960s when many students were protesting racism, poverty, and The War in Vietnam. Students of this era wanted their philosophy classes to talk Read More
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[New Entry by Julia Driver on June 27, 2022.] There is much disagreement about what, exactly, constitutes a moral theory. Some of that disagreement centers on the issue of demarcating the moral from other areas of practical normativity, such as the ethical and the aesthetic. Some disagreement centers on the issue of what a moral Read More
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[Revised entry by Jacoby Adeshei Carter and Corey Barnes on June 27, 2022. Changes to: Main text] Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro – an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists. Locke is Read More
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A recent essay republished at VoegelinView provided an informative critique of Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind.[1] I read Bloom’s book twenty years ago. It was an enjoyable read. I worked then, as now, in a publicly funded Catholic School Board, and Closing of the American Mind had the effect of inflaming my sense…
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Henry Kissinger, now 99, is an uncommonly elegant writer and a first-class suck-up to those in power Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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For decades, perfume was marketed as seduction. So, when did perfume stop being about sex? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “White Nights” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The so-called motive: another error. Merely a surface phenomenon of consciousness, something alongside the deed that is more likely to cover up the antecedents of the deeds than to represent them.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Rémi Brague. Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. In this collection of lectures, Brague begins by quoting G. K. Chesterton, “The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” The world exceeds our ability to understand it. Rationalism exhibits an…
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“I suppose memories live here and there in the body… But they’re invisible, aren’t they? And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.” – Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police (via quotespile) Originally Read More
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[Revised entry by Simo Knuuttila on June 25, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] One of the many uses of the Greek word pathos in ancient philosophy referred, roughly speaking, to what we call emotions. The corresponding Latin terms were passio, affectus or affectio. Medieval theories of emotions were essentially based on ancient sources. The Read More
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“Reasonable men may be allowed to differ, where no one can reasonably be positive.” – David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“Some people have a genius for truth; many have a talent for error — a talent that is accompanied by an equally great industry.” – Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Based on a book by Jeff VanderMeer, the movie Annihilation[1] is a fairly straightforward presentation of the ideas of René Girard. The book is more nuanced and less Girardian, which actually makes it more aesthetically rewarding. It is better that a work of art not be too much a simple application of theory. Even a…
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“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.” – Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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What I wish to discuss is something I term the knowledge-effect. I will argue that awareness of it is important because it is something we need strongly to guard against if we are to make good normative judgements, and apportion well significance and moral weight, so that our overall view of things be not distorted. Read More
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Critics of deconstruction have damned Derrida and de Man without engaging their ideas. That argumentation by association leads nowhere Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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C.L.R. James was a polymath, historian, and philosopher at a time when Black people were not expected to be any of those things Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Imagine that your job is to preserve every word and make it tell a story. Meet the lexicographers behind the OED Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch; he is absolute, and recognises nobody above him. His judgments, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid Read More
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This June I went to my first in-person conference in over two years. It was in UMSL, which is in the town I’m currently based in (St Louis), so it was an easy transition. And it was lovely–exhausting but lovely. I also have a couple of more events lined up this fall. After a hiatus Read More
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Also Known as: Scare Tactics, Appeal to Force, Ad Baculum Description: The Appeal to Fear is a fallacy in which something that is intended to evoke fear is substituted as evidence for a claim. It has the following pattern: Premise 1: Y is presented with the intent to invoke fear. Conclusion: Therefore, claim X Read More
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If you have been wondering about all the fallacy posts, they are because I have been revising and updating my fallacy book. The upcoming book, 109 Fallacies, is the follow up to 76 Fallacies, 30 More Fallacies and the original 42 Fallacies. The book is at 536 pages and undergoing the final edits; the Kindle Read More
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Having discussed issues of responsibility that come up in the context of structural injustice as well as pathways towards solidarity, for this third post of Precarity and Philosophy, I wanted to turn to how precarity can be addressed in the classroom. Originally appeared on Blog of the APA Read More
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“Nothing comes from itself, or something else, or both together, or without a cause.” – Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Batchelor tr. (Ch 1) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Ian Sutton is generating a series of reviews of the chapters of the recent report to the Club of Rome “Limits and Beyond.” Here is the one about the chapter written by Jorgen Randers, one of the authors of the 1972 report. By Ian Sutton The book Limits and Beyond, edited by Ugo Bardi and Carlos Read More
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The male gaze is objectifying, reductive, and dominates our visual culture. So, the antidote must be balancing it out with a new emphasis on the female gaze, right? Wrong. The way the female gaze has been conceptualized still propagates the usual stereotypes about female identity. What was meant to act as a liberation from the Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I hope I can pose a neurotic and basically trivial question. I’m a junior academic in the UK whose official job title is ‘lecturer’ but it is a permanent position. Is it wise or appropriate to explain on my CV or website that Read More
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How can we tell whether an AI program “thinks” or “feels”? In the recent debate of Blake Lemoine’s claims about LaMDA, a functionalist approach can help us understand machine consciousness and feelings. It turns out that Mr Lemoine’s claims are exaggerated and LaMDA can not be sensibly said to feel anything. Blake Lemoine and Google Read More
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Ricardo Friaz is a fifth-year PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Oregon. His primary research areas are in Latin American philosophy, 19th and 20th-century Continental philosophy, and anticolonial studies. What excites you about philosophy? What excites and terrifies me about philosophy is its capacity for inexhaustible questioning. As the art and practice of Read More
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“There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is Read More
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Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was a French Jewish philosopher born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He studied philosophy in Strasburg, France. In 1940 he was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in a labor camp for officers. His Lithuanian family were murdered. His wife and daughters were hidden by religious sisters in Orléans. From 1947 onwards he took…
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“Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development.” – Charles Sanders Peirce, “On Phenomenology”, The Essential Peirce, vol 2 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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At least since Melville, Americans have been enthralled by scammer narratives. Does gullibility ever get old? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“I hope I never confuse truth with a back rub.” Peter Schjeldahl’s admirably thick-skinned response to his daughter’s scathing memoir Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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No one boos at the theater, no matter how awful the show. But clinging to decorum is a mistake Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Description: As a rhetorical tactic, Some of My Best Friends Are is to attempt to refute an accusation of bigotry or prejudice against a group by claiming to have a positive relationship with a member of that group. As a fallacy of reasoning, the error is to infer that such an alleged relationship proves that Read More
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“Not only is domination paid for with the estrangement of human beings from the dominated objects, but the relationships of human beings, including the relationship of individuals to themselves, have themselves been bewitched by the objectification of mind. Individuals shrink to the nodal points of conventional reactions and the modes of operation objectively expected of Read More
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Also Known As: You’re the Racist! Description: The Accusation of Racism is a rhetorical tactic in which a critic of bigotry is accused of being the real bigot. In most cases, the bigotry is racism and the rhetorical response to criticism is an accusation that the critic is the real racist. When this mere accusation Read More
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Both Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid are social movements aimed at providing aid and relieving poverty. And yet, there is a tension between a major subset of Effective Altruism (EA) and Mutual Aid (MA), where this variety of EA is committed to saying that it is morally wrong to participate in MA. But first: What Read More
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Over at utilitarianism.net, we’ve just published a new guest essay: ‘Buddhism and Utilitarianism’, by Calvin Baker (Princeton). It offers an interesting exploration of the developments from Early Buddhist ethics (which is, ironically enough, fundamentally egoistic) to the strikingly utilitarian elements of classical Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism: Śāntideva, an eighth century CE philosopher-monk, is often cited as Read More
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2022.06.05 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Filippo Casati, Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger, Routledge, 2022, 186pp., $160.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780367230104. Reviewed by Katherine Withy, Georgetown University In his book, Filippo Casati argues that Martin Heidegger, in his later work, endorses dialetheism. Dialetheism Read More
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“Psychology at last leads us to conclude that the most generous human impulses spring from a root of egoism. Tolstoy’s “love to one’s neighbour,” for example, proves to be a branch of the old self-love. The same may be said of Kant’s idealism, and even of Plato’s. Though they glorify the service of the idea, Read More
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Art is often viewed as a powerful method of social and political change. Paula Rego, who sadly passed away on the 8th June, blazed her own trail in this regard. Her work had a significant impact on the decision to legalise abortion in Portugal, particularly through her ‘Abortion Series’ in 1998. But how did her Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: What are the current norms about COVID and travel reimbursement? For example, suppose one gets invited for an in-person talk and the host promises to pay. But due to COVID, the trip had to be cancelled, the talk had to be given online, Read More
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Religion has a profound effect on happiness. Multiple studies have shown that religious believers are generally happier people, an effect that is more pronounced in poorer countries. The reasons are: 1. the hierarchical structure of the church; 2. the belief in divine justice and an ordered moral universe; 3. help and companionship available within the Read More
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In lieu of a guest post today, I’m sharing a few questions from from Daily Nous readers. Perhaps you can help with answers… Four of them were emailed in, and one I saw on Twitter this morning and thought would be worth asking. Answers and discussion welcome. (Questions are numbered to make it easy to Read More
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The iconoclastic mindset. What the toppling of statues indicates about the broader political mood Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist writes that a bird, as with the rest of us, needs two types of consciousness simultaneously. It must be able to focus on something specific, such as pecking at food, while it also needs to keep an eye out for danger which requires a more general awareness…
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“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Personal Recollections, by Rush Rhees Originally appeared on Philosophy Read More
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“All reasonings may be divided into two kinds, namely, demonstrative reasoning, or that concerning relations of ideas, and moral reasoning, or that concerning matter of fact and existence.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The misunderstood Casanova. His conquests in the bedroom have eclipsed his accomplishments while fully dressed Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Croquet, cricket, snooker: What is it with the British and their affinity for no-sweat sports? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.” – Cicero, De Officiis Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Dear Readers, Time for yours truly to take a (deserved, I think) vacation to recharge my intellectual batteries and come back ready to put out new essays and podcasts. The very word “vacation” comes from the Latin vacare, meaning to be empty, free, or at leisure. Which is precisely what I intend to do. I Read More
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Elon Musk plans to build his Telsa Bot, Optimus, so that humans “can run away from it and most likely overpower it” should they ever need to. “Hopefully, that doesn’t ever happen, but you never know,” says Musk. But is this really enough to make an AI safe? The problem of keeping AI contained, and Read More
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In ‘Consequentialism: Core and Expansion’ (forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Normative Ethics), I explore how we should think about consequentialism: what’s core to the view, and how it might best be expanded beyond that core. Consequentialist assessment of actions was already addressed in my previous post on Deontic Pluralism: Good Thoughts Deontic Pluralism In Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: Are journal special issues worth anything? I have just seen a call for papers for a special issue of a journal. I have a paper in preparation that would fit exactly into this special issue. However, the journal is somewhat lower ranked than Read More
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The front page from the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” on Oct 12, 1941. A good example of wartime propaganda. War is a complicated story with plenty of things happening at the same time. Not for nothing, there is the term “fog of war” and it may well be that even generals and leaders don’t Read More
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This is the second episode in my short series on The Ethics of Academia. In this episode I chat to Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. We reflect on the value of applied ethical research and the right approach to teaching. Michael has thought quite a lot about the ethics of Read More
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Whether it’s repeatedly falling into the same relationship pattern (even with different partners), or continually making the same old mistakes, many of us often wonder ‘how did I get here again?’. Life is a spiral, not a straight path, in which we continually return to the same types of experience. But why don’t we simply Read More
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Giuseppe Cosenza, Claire A. Forel, Genoveva Puskas & Thomas Robert, ed. 2022. Saussure and Chomsky. Converging and Diverging. Lausanne: Peter Lang. 172 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b19300Publisher’s website Saussure and Chomsky, the two major figures in linguistics of the twentieth century and beyond, have often been compared. The collection of bilingual English and French papers of this Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a grad student writes: I don’t meet a lot with my committee members and they’re quite hands-off but I know some people that meet theirs very regularly. I feel like I’m falling behind a lot, and I want to meet them more but I’m slow at Read More
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One of my favorite courses that I have developed is Ethics in the Novel. Why organize an ethics course around novels? Philosophy teachers are well aware that traditional ethics courses rely heavily on hypothetical situations, especially those that are what John Martin Fischer calls ‘streamlined,’ i.e, “schematized hypothetical scenarios in which only a few details Read More
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I have been reflecting on the ethics of academic life for some time. I’ve written several articles about it over the years. These have focused on the ethics of grading, student-teacher relationships, academic career choice, and the value of teaching (among other things). I’ve only scratched the surface. It seems to me that academic life Read More
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The word “merry” occurs twice in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The first time in Act 2.4, where Portia asks her servant to tell Brutus that she is “merry” at home, even though she is not, given that she is lacking her husband “word” (39-46). The second occurrence is in Act 3.2, where Antony suggests that “Fortune…
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“Hunger not to have, but to be.” – John Dewey, The Poems of John Dewey Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Why do young people treat old people so poorly? For Simone de Beauvoir, it’s the terror of their own aging Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Parents try to teach their children to live morally. Perhaps they should be teaching them to think philosophically Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Enforced morality is artificial morality.” – Frederick Douglass, “Who and What Is Woman? (1886)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“In one sense ‘there are’ both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.” – J. L. Austin, Philosophical Papers Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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A Google AI engineer has been put on leave for thinking an AI has become sentient. However, this is an illusion caused by a clever language model and a human anthropomorphising, writes Gary Marcus. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, polymath, novelist, and Google VP, has a way with words. When he found himself impressed with Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a postdoc asks: Perhaps this is a silly or trivial question, but I’ve been wondering about it since a thread came up a few weeks ago. My practice has always been to basically acknowledge anyone who gave me feedback on a paper, even if it was Read More
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From misremembering the names of our acquaintances, to failing to recall a memory accurately, for decades we have viewed forgetfulness as a shortcoming of the human mind. Yet recent neuroscience and psychology demonstrates this to be a myth, argues Scott A. Small. From creativity to intelligence and empathy to courage, the art of forgetting may Read More
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It’s been a while since I’ve asked the Cocoon a question of my own, but I’ve been struggling a bit with what my summer work schedule and routine should look like, so here goes: how do you work during summer breaks from teaching? For example, how many hours would you say that you spend on Read More
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This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). This collection of thirty-one new essays will focus on ethical questions raised by institutional policies of colleges and universities. As a service to readers, over the next several months the APA Blog will Read More
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“I need to have the humility to recognize that, in this case, I have not found that truth, and that I may not ever find it. And it has also shown me that I need to be more generous to people who are dumbfounded by cases where I happen to have clear and consistent intuitions.” Read More
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Some modern proponents of identity politics causes, influenced a little by Marxism and a lot by postmodernism, claim that power is what matters, not truth. What we regard as “true” is merely what the powerful convince us to think, they suggest. In an age of misinformation, tech overlords, institutional capture, and activist journalists and professors…
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Revised entry by Philippe Hamou on June 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The Minim friar Marin Mersenne (1588 – 1648) played a central role in French intellectual life of the first half of the seventeenth century. At a time when scientific periodicals were still sorely lacking, he was rightly referred to as “The Read More
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“A world of original thinkers, all thinking wholly inimitable thoughts, could never get anything done.” And so the power of the cliché Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The James Patterson factory: co-authors are the key to his 260 best-sellers and 400 million copies sold Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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More than any ideology, position, or interest, it was elitism — a top-down approach to social enlightenment — that shaped Stewart Brand Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“To my thinking it’s a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it’s better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it’s easier to be humble. One can’t understand everything at once, we can’t begin with perfection all at once!” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“The renowned salto mortale [lit. “deadly leap”] of the philosophers is often only a false alarm. In their thoughts they take a frightfully long approach run and then congratulate themselves on having braved the danger; but if one only looks a little more closely, they’re still sitting on the same old spot. It’s like Don Read More
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In this episode, host John Bruni is joined from New York by returning guest Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. John and Massimo speak frankly about the problems posed by modern celebrities looking at the two recent controversies that caught out prolific American podcaster, Joe Rogan. They also look at the celebrity of Canadian Clinical Psychologist Emeritus Prof. Read More
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NATO was proclaimed brain-dead only three years ago by France’s President. Now it seems resurrected. Key member states like the USA and Britain have rallied around Ukraine, arming its resistance against Russia. Finland and Sweden are on course to join the alliance, creating a NATO boarder with Russia. Putin meanwhile has retreated from his original Read More
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Introduction In light of the recent reports of increased rates of hate crimes, especially violent hate crimes, against Asian Americans, I am motivated to think about intra-minority conflict. I focus on intra-minority conflict because the videos that dominate incidences of violence against Asian Americans feature a young black male. White men still perpetuate the majority Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader queries: Let’s say I’m writing a paper where I defend a claim P. P is not the main thesis of the paper but a premise in the main argument. I often find myself giving two or three independent arguments for P, each of which Read More
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Imagine a university campus. Zoom your attention to one of the buildings. The, imagine a human figure running away from it, screaming while holding his head with his hands. Imagine him dashing out of the campus gate and disappearing in the fog, still running at full speed and screaming. That was me, leaving the University Read More
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[New Entry by Hanti Lin on June 13, 2022.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Hanti Lin replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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Sarah Cortez is a retired Texas police officer currently serving in the police reserves after full time active duty in the Patrol Division. She is the author or editor of fourteen books and is a member of the Texas Institute for Letter and a fellow for the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Her most…
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“We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.” – Karl Jaspers, Read More
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Most writers are not good talkers. But more and more, their lives involve not so much writing as talking Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Artists have always relied on external sources of creativity, whether drugs or devices. Is AI art so different? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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What happened to understatement? Emotional exhibitionism is turning us into hyperbolic adolescents Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“If you attempt to teach children how the sign has led to the neglect of the thing signified, how money is the source of all the false ideas of society, how countries rich in silver must be poor in everything else, you will be treating these children as philosophers, and not only as philosophers but Read More
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“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.” – Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 16) Originally appeared Read More
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Harris Bor. Staying Human: A Jewish Theology for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. Science Fiction is the dominant cultural mythos of modernity. Isaac Asimov, whom I regard as providing the best definition of science fiction, said that the genre is “that branch of literature which deals with the reaction…
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Andrew Pessin. Nevergreen. Open Books, 2021. Andrew Pessin’s novel, Nevergreen, is a satirical portrayal of the cancel culture that has emerged in recent years on some American campuses. The title is a reference to Evergreen State College, now famous for the treatment Bret Weinstein received there when he questioned the wisdom of holding a…
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“Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.” – Zadie Smith, On Beauty (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“With rebellion, awareness is born.” – Albert Camus, The Rebel Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Also Known as: Concorde Fallacy, Vietnam Fallacy Description: This fallacy occurs when it is concluded that additional investment should be made in something simply because one is already invested in it. The fallacy has the following general form: Premise 1: Person/Group A has invested resources in X. Conclusion: Person/Group A should invest additional resources in Read More
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“Were I other than you, then even without you I would be someone else; I cannot be your other without you. There is no otherness in either you or me; without otherness, there is no me or you.” – Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Batchelor tr. (Ch 14) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Joseph T. Stuart. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason. Sophia Institute Press, 2020. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason examines the Enlightenment movement of the eighteenth century and its effect on religious life. While the story of the Enlightenment and its interaction with religious thought is well documented,…
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“Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded.” Read More
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The logo of my old blog, Cassandra’s Legacy. I am a little nostalgic about how the Trojan prophetess had been an active blogger for ten years. But she had attracted the ire of the powers that be, so I had to move to a new blog, this one under the auspices of the old Roman Read More
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At Oxford during World War II, a group of female philosophers began asking big metaphysical questions and changed the field Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The sexual revolution has brought women many gains. But who’s benefited the most? Men. Louise Perry explains Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The smile may predate the human species, but we’ve put it to versatile use. Whether conveying pleasure or fear, the smile does it Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Disclaimer: This is an article about the definition of mental health. It is not meant and should not be used as advice on how to treat mental health problems. If you feel that you have mental health problems, please consult a specialist. Can we draw a line between people with psychiatric disorders and those without? Read More
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“Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone’s affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal revolution, the adventures of the mind.” Read More
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“I, a man of color, want but one thing: May man never be instrumentalized. May the subjugation of man by man — that is to say, of me by another — cease. May I be allowed to discover and desire man wherever he may be.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Originally appeared on Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Paul Pardi My wife and I had a conversation recently about how to talk to someone on a topic about which they disagreed. She and this person had many discussions on the topic but couldn’t Read More
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From Walter White to Don Draper, Marty Byrd to Elizabeth Jennings, most of our favourite films and TV shows involve antiheroes. We are compelled by these figures and their morally iniquitous actions. Yet strangely, we also can’t help but like these characters and root for them. Is this a problem? Murray Smith posits that these Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, an early career reader asks: Recently, I found myself wondering not just how or when other philosophers read, but where they read. My dissertation supervisor once told me he did all of his reading in bed. I know plenty of folks who read at their desks. Read More
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Annika Froese is finishing her doctorate in philosophy at the University at Pittsburgh. She works on topics in the philosophy of science with a focus on explanation and understanding and currently teaches biomedical ethics. What excites you about philosophy? It is the variety that has always excited me most. In my early days, I had Read More
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Aaron Weinacht. Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Research requires that one peruses all relevant secondary literature, at least to the extent possible—and if there is not that much secondary literature available, scholars must have a comprehensive overview of all publications on their subject. At least…
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“The soul is healed by being around children.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Photography and grief. “Sometimes I wonder if the hours I’ve spent with images of corpses has been an act of mitigation” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In the early 18th century, a Greek secret society centered on blood oaths and cryptographic language launched a murderous, messianic uprising Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Big stars, international spies, sublime cynicism: A dispatch from the Cannes Film Festival Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Whatever can be done another day can be done today.” – Michel de Montaigne, Essais Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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A recession is coming. And there’s a danger it will be deeper and last longer than the 2008 crisis. But what this inevitable, or the making of central banks? David Blanchflower argues that a certain group-think is driving central banks to overreact to inflation pressures by sharply raising interest rates and thus inevitably triggering a Read More
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I am excited to be editing the “Professor Reflection Series,” a new teaching-focused offering of The Blog of the APA. The series is based on the idea that, in thinking about the teaching we do, we are trying to solve some specific version of this general pedagogical problem: How can we best help our students Read More
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38th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY American Political Science Association Meeting September 15-18, 2022 Montréal, Québec, CANADA Friends, I look forward to seeing you at our annual meeting in September as we visit our Canadian neighbors in beautiful Montréal. This is the first fully in person meeting of our host, APSA, who…
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“He who possesses little is that much less possessed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens — the titans of American modernism specialized in conveying one state: failure Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Kafka’s drawings are objectively strong and aesthetically riveting, but they don’t rival his best writing Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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What’s most remarkable about our understanding of social media’s effect on society is how little we know Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[New Entry by Edouard Machery and Stephen Stich on June 8, 2022.] Contemporary interest in the idea that there is a psychologically real and philosophically important distinction between moral judgments and conventional judgments can be traced to the work of psychologist Elliot Turiel. Starting in the 1970s, Turiel and his collaborators borrowed some ideas from Read More
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[Revised entry by Aaron Hughes on June 8, 2022. Changes to: Bibliography] Judah Abrabanel (ca. 1465 – after 1521), also known as Leone Ebreo, is an important transitional figure in the history of Jewish philosophy. Common to any transitional figure, however, is the problem of contextualization. In the case of Judah Abrabanel, do we regard Read More
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“There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight.” – Charles Yu, Sorry Please Read More
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2022.06.01 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Bernard Reginster, The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality, Oxford University Press, 2021, 202pp., $70.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198868903. Reviewed by Mark Migotti, University of Calgary Philosophy, William James said, “works in the minutest crannies and opens out the Read More
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“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.” – Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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When someone important and of questionable character dies, should we make fun of them? by Massimo Pigliucci “His last words heard among mortals — after he had let out a louder sound from that part with which he found it easier to communicate — were as follows: ‘Good heavens. I think I’ve shat myself.’ Well, Read More
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The world is a far from perfect place. There are so many problems confronting us – wars, poverty, injustice, racism, climate change. And it’s not just humans who are facing such devastation. Animals are being killed by the trillions, annually, in industrial food systems and are perishing in their dwindling and increasingly polluted habitats. Many Read More
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In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a regular reader asks: Is this a certification that is meaningful? Does anyone know anything about it? https://yougotclass.org/register.cfm?action=add&certificate=16 I have to confess that I don’t know much about this kind of thing. It might be good to hear from readers, including which kinds of certifications might Read More
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The Philosophy Club at Stetson University is a monthly meeting of the minds involving faculty, philosophy majors and minors, and students interested in pursuing advanced studies in philosophy. A student convener sets the agenda and distributes texts for discussion. There are usually six meetings a year — three per semester — with a new president Read More
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“Don’t ruin the things you have by wanting what you don’t have, but realize that they too are things you once did wish for.” – Epicurus, Vatican Sayings Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Student Reviews matter a whole lot, one can say, that now more than ever. A student can complain to the highest authority in the University if he or she does not receive the grade that is desired. Now, this is where the rendezvous begins and the global phenomenon across Higher Institutions around the world give…
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“Art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal — the protest against that which is.” – Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Cantankerous, ungracious, often drunk, the writer Jean Rhys was nicknamed “Johnny Rotten” by friends who took her in Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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What — if any — are the privacy rights of Raphael Gessen-Gould, the most chronicled child in the Brooklyn literary world? Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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James Patterson has published 10 books this year, and four more will appear this month. So many questions Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“Intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. These are impossible without an active disposition to welcome points of view hitherto alien; an active desire to entertain considerations which modify existing purposes. Retention of capacity to grow is the reward of such intellectual hospitality.” – John Dewey, Read More
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Description: This is a common variant of the Fallacious Appeal to Authority. This error occurs when a person believes a claim simply because it is made by an authoritarian authority they accept. While people tend to think of dictators when they think of authoritarians, the authoritarian could be an elected official or even a minor Read More
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In this interview, Willem A. deVries, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy book series, and Marc A. Joseph, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri and Professor Emeritus at Mills College, discuss their respective work on Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson. The Read More
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“Concerning the gods I am unable to know either that they are or that they are not or what their appearance is like. For many are the things that hinder knowledge: the obscurity of the matter and the shortness of human life.” – Protagoras, Fragments, B4 Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Three Kinds of Critics Some people just aren’t very altruistic, and so may quietly dislike Effective Altruism for promoting values that conflict with their interests. (It’s easy to see how wealthy academics might be better off with a moral ideology that prioritizes verbiage over material outcomes, for example.) One doesn’t often hear this perspective explicitly Read More
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The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following eight prizes for the first half of 2022. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2022 APA Read More
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On day 3 of HowTheLightGetsIn at Hay, an extraordinary panel of theoretical physicists debated the reality of the multiverse. Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku, and quantum gravity researcher Sabine Hossenfelder, argued over whether the idea that our universe is one of many can be taken to be a scientific claim, backed Read More
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Now that it’s been a little over a month since our last “how can we help you?” thread, it’s time for a new one. For those of you unfamiliar with this series, this is a chance for you to post openly or anonymously in the comments section below on anything you could use help with related to Read More
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“Aristotle or Kant simply could not have thought about music this way.” The following is a guest post* by P.D. Magnus, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Albany, State University of New York. It is the third in a series of weekly guest posts by different authors at Daily Nous this summer. Light Topics, Real Philosophy: Read More
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“I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.” – Henry David Thoreau, The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“What I love very much is your being yourself style, and I wish that you keep this skill and manage to share it with all around, and students, too. This is something very demanded (and rare) in philosophy and vitally important at our Teas [with Berdyaev] in particular.” So wrote Sofia Androsenko in very kind…
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We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world…
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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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The Postmodern Irony of David Foster Wallace When you meet a new acquaintance at a social gathering, your first instinct is to seek common ground. The more cosmopolitan the gathering, the less likely you are to assume your new acquaintance will share your idiosyncratic tastes and experiences. You may want to talk about your favorite…
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“Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.” – Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Originally Read More
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“Thinkers are seldom gamblers; gambling interrupts the habit of thought and turns it towards barren combinations.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Description:This fallacy occurs when an analogical argument is rejected in an unprincipled way, usually by setting the standards of similarity too high. Analogical arguments are discussed in some detail under the Fallacious Analogy entry, but I will recap the essential information here to explain this fallacy. An analogical argument is an argument in which one Read More
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-mobility-17-once-upon-time-were-five-young-bruno-grippay/?trackingId= By Bruno Grippay. Published on “Linkedin” on May 29, 2022 When I look at the historic photo of this group of five young passionate and enthusiastic scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), I feel from their attitude the same eagerness and determination that I see in the eyes of my children who Read More
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László F. Földényi. Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears. Trans. Ottilie Mulzet. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. “Almighty God, though who holds all spirits in thy hands, deliver us from the Enlightenment and fatal arts of our fathers and give us back ignorance, innocence, and poverty, the sole goods that…
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William McCormick. The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. It has long been a marvel to me that, for most of our history, the most fundamentally important facets of American political life didn’t need to be discussed. Chief among these was…
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“Maybe in our bodies there’s a whole world of mythology? Maybe there exists some sort of reflection of the great and the small, the human body joining within itself everything with everything — stories and heroes, gods and animals, the order of plants and the harmony of minerals?” – Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (via quotespile) Originally Read More
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“To serve your own mind so that sadness or joy does not sway or move it; to understand what you can do nothing about and to be content with it as with fate — this is the perfection of virtue. … If you act in accordance with the state of affairs and forget about yourself, Read More
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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[Articles I come across that strike me as being of general interest. Suggestions welcome, using the Contact form on this site.] by Philip Freeman If you wanted to write a screenplay for a blockbuster film, Aristotle is the last person you might ask for advice. He lived more than 2,000 years ago, spent his days lecturing on Read More
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When I listen to Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” often referred to as simply “Afternoon of a Faun,” I’m reminded of the vertiginous feeling of gazing at a 3-D computer-generated picture, one that, once you’ve allowed your eyes and brain to shift slightly, draws you inside a world you previously hadn’t been able…
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[Revised entry by Donald Viney on June 4, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Process theism typically refers to a family of theological ideas originating in, inspired by, or in agreement with the metaphysical orientation of the English philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947) and the American philosopher-ornithologist Charles Hartshorne (1897 – 2000). For Read More
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On the second day of HowTheLightGetsIn festival at Hay, one of the panel debates turned to the question of whether lying is necessary, and even justified, for the smooth running of society. Psychologist Simon Baron Cohen, philosopher of swearing Rebecca Roache, and post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson, argued over whether lying has anything to do with Read More
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Beneath our feet – not so far below – Creaks a widening fissure in the earth, Grinding its way to sudden Shuddering outcome and release: A fundamental rupture – overturning The trusted, the reliable – a toppling Lurch in given ground, in steady stance, Habitation, level thought, the certain good. Our promoted preparatory advice –…
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“Man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” – Augustine, Confessions Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Derrida, de Man, Geoffrey Hartman — deconstruction was a charismatic yet politically vapid school of thought Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Telegraph wires preceded electromagnetic field theory; steam engines predated thermodynamics. Sometimes technology pulls science forward Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Pity the plight of luxury magazine editors sheepishly plying their trade in an era of “eat the rich” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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[New Entry by Melinda Bonnie Fagan and Jane Maienschein on June 3, 2022.] Development is a central biological process, and ideas about its nature have been influential in biological thought. This entry surveys the history of these ideas through the lens of “epigenesis vs. preformation”. Epigenesis is, roughly, the thesis that every developing entity starts Read More
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“The influence of phenomena is removed by employing the influence of emptiness, and even that is later eradicated by inculcating the realization, ‘nothing really exists’.” – Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:32) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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“We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the present.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Over the last few months, members of the APA elected new divisional officers, a new member-at-large of the APA board of officers, two new members of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), and also considered amendments to the association’s bylaws. We are pleased to announce the results of those votes. All newly elected members will begin Read More
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A reader wrote in to draw my attention to a cool new podcast, Off Campus., featuring interviews with academics who left the academy for alternative (‘alt-ac’) careers. Here’s the full podcast description: Each episode features a guest who has completed substantive postgraduate education in the humanities and who currently works in an alt-ac career. By Read More
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A reader writes in: I have a question that seems to not have been asked before, and for which it is hard to get good advice…Here it is: For your first monograph, is a series ‘less prestigious’ than a standalone publication with the same publisher? I’ve had my book under review with a publisher for Read More
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“It is the character of a wise man to resist pleasure, and of a fool to be enslaved by it.” – Epictetus, Fragments Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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[New Entry by Daniel R. Kelly and Andreas De Block on June 2, 2022.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Daniel Kelly and Andreas De Block replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] Human behavior and thought often exhibit a familiar pattern of within… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Read More
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The problem with book reviewing isn’t a surfeit of positivity or negativity — it’s the insidery-ness Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Despite his plain-language philosophy approach, Stanley Cavell’s syntax obfuscates, warning readers: “Paraphrase me if you dare” Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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A writer used to need only erudition and talent. Now she needs charisma and pizazz. Why? Blame the literary festival Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“One should set one’s mind on what is possible and be content with what one has, taking little account of those who are admired and envied, and not dwelling on them in thought, but one should consider the lives of those who are in distress, thinking of their grievous sufferings, so that what one has Read More
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[New Entry by Arthur Ripstein on June 2, 2022.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Arthur Ripstein replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous authors.] Tort is a branch of private law. It focuses on interpersonal… Originally appeared on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Read More
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[Revised entry by Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and Sara Goering on June 2, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] “Eugenics” is a term loaded with historical significance and a strong negative valence. Its literal meaning – good birth – suggests a suitable goal for all prospective parents, yet its historical connotations tie it to appalling policies, Read More
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Also Known as: Should be Grateful Fallacy, Lucky Fallacy Description: This fallacy occurs when it is argued that something is not bad (or as bad as claimed) simply by asserting that it could be worse. This fallacy is commonly used to dismiss concerns or complaints by simply asserting that it could be worse. This fallacy Read More
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“There can be no right of speech where any man, however lifted up, or however humble, however young, or however old, is overawed by force, and compelled to suppress his honest sentiments.” – Frederick Douglass, “Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)” Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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When Jerry and I fly to California for another round of my neuropathy treatments, we each bring something to read en route. Obviously our selections have to be in paperback and short. Since I’d become curious to know more about the four women philosophers – Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley –…
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[Revised entry by Noa Ronkin on June 1, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The first centuries after Śākyamuni Buddha’s death saw the rise of multiple schools of thought and teacher lineages within the Buddhist community as it spread throughout the Indian subcontinent. These new forms of scholarly monastic communities had distinct theoretical and Read More
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I spent a few hours on soil that has seen millennia of fascinating human history. It’s well worth reflecting on it by Massimo Pigliucci The story goes that one day Zeus seduced and impregnated yet another mortal woman, Leto. Hera, Zeus wife, was royally pissed off. As usual. So Hera banished Leto from earth. Zeus Read More
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[Revised entry by Mathieu Marion on June 1, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] John Cook Wilson (1849 – 1915) was Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford. His ideas are at the origin of ‘Oxford Realism’, a philosophical movement that flourished at Oxford during the first decades of the twentieth century. Although trained Read More
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“I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Historians now perform the role to which sociologists once aspired: to narrate and contextualize the conflicts of the present Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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The painter Pierre Bonnard resisted major 20th century “isms,” perhaps due to the singularity of his vision — or perhaps due to his indecisiveness Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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In 1623, Ben Jonson wrote what might be the single most misunderstood line of English poetry Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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“A culture’s ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.” – George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read Read More
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[New Entry by Martha Bolton on June 1, 2022.] Many philosophers maintain there is a significant difference between primary and secondary qualities but disagree about its foundation. It may be plausible that we perceive things as having a small number of basic qualities which are determinates or degrees of the following: size, figure, extension, duration, Read More
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“Such a cruel thing, memory. We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget. That we’ve had to forget, in order to pretend to live here in a normal way.” – Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (via quotespile) Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
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Also Known As: Raising the Bar Description: This fallacy occurs when evidence against a claim is rejected by insisting, in an unprincipled way, that different (typically greater) evidence be provided. The fallacy has the following forms: Version 1 Premise 1: Evidence E against claim C is presented. Premise 2: It is insisted (without justification) Read More
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Description: This fallacy occurs when someone infers that only one cause is responsible for an effect without considering that there might be multiple causes. This fallacy has the following form: Premise 1: Effect E occurs. Premise 2: C is a cause of E. Conclusion: Therefore, C is the single cause of E. This Read More
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Description: This fallacy is committed when a person places unwarranted confidence in drawing a conclusion from statistics that are unknown. Premise 1: “Unknown” statistical data D is presented. Conclusion: Claim C is drawn from D with greater confidence than D warrants. Unknown statistical data is just that, statistical data that is unknown. This Read More
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Also Known as: Golden Mean Fallacy, Fallacy of Moderation Description: This fallacy is committed when it is assumed that the middle ground between two (often extreme) positions must be correct because it is the middle position. This reasoning has the following form: Premise 1: A and Z are two (extreme) positions. Premise 2: P Read More
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Description: Misleading Vividness is a fallacy in which a very small number of dramatic events are taken to outweigh significant statistical evidence. Somewhat more formally, this fallacy is committed when an estimation of the probability of an occurrence is based on the vividness of the occurrence and not on statistical evidence of how often it Read More
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[Revised entry by Susan Vineberg on May 14, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The Dutch Book argument (DBA) for probabilism (namely the view that an agent’s degrees of belief should satisfy the axioms of probability) traces to Ramsey’s work in “Truth and Probability”. He mentioned only in passing that an agent who violates the Read More
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[Revised entry by Donald Zeyl and Barbara Sattler on May 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] In the Timaeus Plato presents an elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe and an explanation of its impressive order and beauty. The universe, he proposes, is the product of rational, purposive, and beneficent agency. Read More
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[Revised entry by Philip Goff, William Seager, and Sean Allen-Hermanson on May 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html, supplement.html] Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. The view has a long and venerable history in philosophical traditions of both East and West, and has recently enjoyed Read More
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Canada’s tidy, modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on its creative professions. To pursue larger ambitions, move to America Originally appeared on Arts & Letters Daily Read More
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Philosophy News recently published a series of reports that provide insight into how philosophy students get placed after they graduate. Northwestern University is one of the schools that surfaced in these reports as being particularly successful at helping students find jobs in academic philosophy. The chairman of the philosophy department at Northwestern, Dr. Sandy Goldberg, agreed to spend some time with us to talk about philosophy as an academic discipline, about the career prospect for students studying philosophy, and about how the program at Northwestern is designed to help students to be as successful as possible after they graduate.
One bit of guidance Dr. Goldberg gives students in this engaging conversation focuses on what he sees as a prerequisite for entering a philosophy program in the first place. “One really has to love philosophy, if you’re going to commit even the years in graduate school to it. You have to love it. I think you actually have to love it intrinsically. You have to love what is really beautiful about thinking of these ideas and the clash of opinions. If you don’t love it in that way, so much so that you can’t imagine doing anything else, then my advice would be, don’t do it to begin with.”
We couldn’t agree more.
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Does evolutionary theory undermine the truth of religious belief? There have been many books published in recent years whose authors have attempted to develop an evolutionary explanation of religious belief. Pascal Boyer in Religion Explained claims, “The explanation for religious beliefs and behaviors is to be found in the way all human minds work.” Boyer’s effort at explaining religious belief is an evolutionary one. Similarly, Daniel Dennett in Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon writes, “Religion is natural as opposed to supernatural, … it is a human phenomenon composed of events, organisms, objects, structures, patterns, and the like that all obey the laws of physics or biology, and hence do not involve miracles.” Dennett’s view, too is that religion is a product of evolution.
Many go further claiming that an evolutionary explanation of religious belief at the very least undermines the truth of the claims of religion (claims such as God exists) and may even undermine the value of religious belief. If evolution explains religious belief, so the argument goes, it is at best an unnecessary by product of evolutionary processes.
Even if there are viable evolutionary explanations of religious belief, does this mean that the central claims of religion are false and does it mean that religious belief should be discarded? Dr. Michael Murray and Dr. Jeffrey Schloss addressed these and other questions in the second annual Bellingham Lectures in Philosophy and Religion held in February 2012 on the campus of Western Washington University in Bellingham. In this podcast, we interview Drs. Schloss and Murray about their talk and about their perspectives on the impact of evolutionary theory on how we ought to think about religious belief and practice. Philosophy News interviewed Dr. Alvin Plantinga in 2011 for this series.
Dr. Schloss answers first.
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Michael Murray is a Senior Visiting Scholar at Franklin and Marshall College and Jeffrey Schloss is a T.B. Walker Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Philosophy, Faith, and the Life Sciences at Westmont College.
Excerpt:
“In the [19]70s up through the mid-90s, a lot of attention was focused on a different but not unrelated issue which has to do with the altruistic or moral behavior in humans and other organisms. So that at least seems to be a Darwinian puzzle because if what evolution is all about is to advance your own fitness and well being, then there are sorts of behaviors that look like organisms are trying to assist others at their own expense and that seems counter-intuitive or puzzling given the the theory. So there’s a lot of attention devoted to explaining that. I think that very naturally leads one to look at other kinds of pervasive forms of belief and behavior which also seem to be counter-intuitive on the Darwinian picture and religious belief looks like an example of that. Not because it’s false if in fact you think it is (which many scientists do) but rather because there are significant costs involved with religious belief and behavior…. This has led to a different kind of Darwinian puzzle and I think researchers began to turn their attention to that. That spawned new accounts, many of which have a lot of empirical support, and I think the initial reaction a lot of people have to those accounts is that there’s something troubling for religious belief here. ”
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It’s possible for a religious believer to be rational and completely justified in believing in God’s existence without basing her belief on evidence. That’s the general claim of philosopher Alvin Plantinga. In this podcast and accompanying video, Paul Pardi lays out what he sees as Plantinga’s core argument and briefly examines some objections. This presentation was given to the Capitol Hill Theology Pub to a largely lay audience interested in philosophy and theology. The presentation was designed as a primer to Plantinga’s ideas on religious belief and warrant. In the first 45 minutes Paul gives an overview of some general problems in epistemology and then lays out Plantinga’s argument and some objections to it. He then takes 30 minutes of questions and answers.
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Other Resources * An interview with Alvin Plantinga on his new book Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism * Capitol Hill Theology Pub website
Are humans the cause of global warming? How should I raise my children? Who should I vote for? Did a higher power create the universe? Each of us seems to be responsible to possess knowledge about myriad subjects that affect not only our lives but the lives of those around us (and perhaps those on the other side of the globe). As the world gets smaller and more complex, our “knowledge burden” seems to increase with each passing day. Pundits, politicians, and talking heads try to simplify these complex questions but many philosophers know better. Knowing how to know is a hard business.
Philosophers have been working on the knowledge problem since before Plato and while progress has been made, it has come slowly and has been an arduous journey. Professor Jason Baehr has just released a new book with Oxford University Press that adds a fresh perspective to this challenge. Instead of focusing on the standard topics of justification, truth, and belief, Jason focuses on the person holding belief and argues that understanding the role virtue plays—intellectual virtue—may contribute to unlocking the mystery of knowledge. Possessing intellectual virtues like open mindedness or curiosity may be just important as having well functioning belief-forming mechanisms like eyesight and reasoning capacities.
In this podcast, Jason and I discuss the contents of his new book The Inquiring Mind in which he lays out a framework for the nascent field of virtue epistemology. We talk about the work of Linda Zagzebski who has done pioneering work in this field, how Jason’s book contributes to the growing discipline, practical aspects of the work, and where epistemology might be going in the future.
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Excerpt: “On my view, whether an ID theorist or the person who doubts that humans are the cause of global warming and who, on the basis of this conviction, chooses not to investigate the matter further ... counts as intellectually vicious depends on whether these people have good reason to accept the beliefs that are guiding their intellectual conduct. So on my view, intellectual virtues are traits that involve, among other things, dispositions to inquire and think in ways that one has reason to believe will be useful for reaching or securing the truth.”
Other Resources: Get the book!
| | The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology Oxford University Press has made the first chapter of the book available as a sample. You can download that here. The OUP website for the book. |
Select papers by Dr. Baehr:
"The Structure of Open-Mindedness"
"Character, Reliability, and Virtue Epistemology"
"The Cognitive Demands of Intellectual Virtue"
"Epistemic Malevolence"
"Two Kinds of Wisdom"
This podcast is a recording that was made in August of 2007 at Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church in Seattle Washington. The speaker is Dr. Alvin Plantinga and the title of the talk is “Religion and Science: Why does the Debate Continue?” Dr. Plantinga taught at Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan and spent most of his long career at Notre Dame University. His most important work has been the Warrant series culminating with Warranted Christian Belief in which he argues that a person can be fully justified in believing in God’s existence even if that belief is not grounded on evidence as it’s typically understood. This 2007 lecture is of particular interest because this month Dr. Plantinga has released a new book taking on the claim that religion and science are incompatible. His book, Where the Conflict Really Lies, is sure to generate a lot of discussion and be the subject of much debate. Philosophy News will be publishing an interview with Dr. Plantinga on his new book and this lecture is an early version of some of the ideas he included in the book. We hope you enjoy it.
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Excerpt: “The first question is, “Is there really a debate?” and I think the answer to that question is, “Yes, there is really a debate.” But if you Christians feel sort of beleaguered by science, if you think science is somehow going contrary to Christian belief, because these certain parts of it do, several scientists, quite a few scientists think that religion is a real danger to science. Still others think that as science advances, religion retreats. So there is this kind of opposition—at least a perceived opposition—between science and religion and my question is, “Why is that? Why does this debate continue?” I think there are several reasons . . . six of them anyway.”
Other Resources: In the lecture, Plantinga refers to a handout. You can download the handout here.
| | Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism |
In a recent article for Inside Higher Ed professor Boghossian of Portland State University (Oregon) sketches his position that professors should have a primary goal of changing students beliefs if those beliefs are false and seek to replace those beliefs with true ones. He asks, “Should professors attempt to change students’ beliefs by consistently challenging false beliefs with facts?” On the surface, an affirmative answer to this question seems obvious. What professor would want his students to walk out of his or her class with clearly false information when he or she has the power to set the record straight. “I believe our role as educators should be to teach students not just factual data, but the importance of critically examining beliefs by exposing them to facts, and then revising cherished notions when confronted with reliable but discomforting evidence.” He subsequently gave a talk on the PSU campus arguing that faith is a cognitive sickness and should be given no countenance in the classroom.
In this podcast, we talk to professor Boghossian about the thesis of his article, the substance of his lecture and the reaction to it, and his work with prisoners and how critical thinking skills can be used in that difficult environment.
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Excerpt: “I think one of the things we’ve seen happen, and Dennett talks about this in Breaking the Spell, and then he talks about this again in his little article, "Preachers who are not believers,” that people of faith and people who use faith as a process to know the world think that the fact that they use this process to know the world, this is actually a moral issue for them. They think that this way of thinking—I’m hesitant to use the word ‘reasoning’—this way of thinking about the world makes them better people. It imbues upon them a certain characteristic, a quality. A moral quality. Using this way of thinking is a value. And that somehow that value makes them a good person or a better person or more just or a more humble or noble person…. So many people fall for this idea that if somebody says that they are a person of faith, then somehow that means they must be a good person, or a decent person, or a kind person. When in fact that’s not true. It’s just a process of reasoning that will lead one away from the truth.”
Other Resources: “Should We Challenge Student Beliefs?”Inside Higher Ed
Philosophy News write-up on Peter’s article
Select papers by Peter Boghossian:
"Socratic Pedagogy: Perplexity, Humiliation, Shame and a Broken Egg"Educational Philosophy and Theory
“Critical Thinking and Constructivism: Mambo Dog Fish to the Banana Patch”
Journal of Philosophy of Education
“Socratic Pedagogy, Critical Thinking, and Offender Programming”Offender Programs Report, Jan/Feb, Volume 13, Number 5
“Behaviorism, Constructivism, and Socratic Pedagogy”
Educational Philosophy and Theory, December, Volume 38, Issue 6
“Socratic Pedagogy, Critical Thinking, and Inmate Education”Journal of Correctional Education, Volume 57, Number 1, March 18
“How the Socratic Method Works”Informal Logic: Teaching Supplement, Volume 23, Number 2
“Socratic Pedagogy, Race, and Power: From People to Propositions”Education Policy Analysis Archives, January, Volume 10, Number 3
“The Socratic Method (Or, Having a Right to Get Stoned)”
Teaching Philosophy, December, Volume 25, Number 4
“How to Make an Argument”The Clearing House: Educational Research Controversy and Practices, November/December, Volume 76, Number 2
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