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The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment
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“Owning up: to recollect, to regret, to be responsible, ultimately to forgive and love.” Chance and choice converge to make us who we are, and although we may mistake chance for choice, our choices are
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Socially Extended Epistemology - J. Adam Carter; Andy Clark; Jesper Kallestrup; S. Orestis Palermos; Duncan Pritchard - University
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Philosophy Of Education
Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology
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2018.12.21 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Brian Kim and Matthew McGrath (eds.), Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology, …
A bad couple of weeks for women in philosophy
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It’s been a terribly sad couple of weeks, as philosophy has lost two really important women, both far too young: Maite Ezcurdia and Fiona Cowie.
Philosophy of Science
Mathematical developments in the rise of Yang-Mills gauge theories
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Koberinski, Adam (2018) Mathematical developments in the rise of Yang-Mills gauge theories. [Preprint]
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Adrienne Mayor (Stanford), "Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology" | Department of Classics
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Long before technology made robots possible, Greek mythology envisioned ideas about creating artificial life—and grappled with ethical concerns about …
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Resources for sharing work?
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A reader writes in: My name is James Lee. I'm a recent Ph.D. grad out of Syracuse University. I enjoy reading Philosopher's Cocoon and …
Ad Hoc
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en_US article Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler Other Daily Nous Comics / More Info about DN Comics / Rachel Katler on …
Hungary
Despite Move, CEU Is Accepting Applications
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Central European University (CEU), despite having been forced by threat of closure by the Hungarian legislature to move from Budapest to Vienna for …
Philosophy of Science
Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization: A Network Epistemology Approach
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Weatherall, James Owen and O'Connor, Cailin (2018) Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization: A Network Epistemology Approach. [Preprint]
Quantum Mechanics
Against the field ontology of quantum mechanics
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Gao, Shan (2018) Against the field ontology of quantum mechanics. [Preprint]
Trust the process. The Oulipo produce literature by adopting a rule and seeing what happens. Anything goes as long as it
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Political Philosophy
Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy
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Intersectional Feminism
Women in Philosophy: Intersectionality and the Importance of Poetics for Feminist Philosophy
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by Robin James In her 2008 article “re-thinking intersectionality,” Jennifer Nash argues that feminist theory’s enthusiastic adoption of …
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The Loveliest Children’s Books of 2018
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Maurice Sendak’s last book, a celebration of history’s heroic women illustrated by Maira Kalman, a stunning serenade to the wilderness, and more. Once a year, every year, I reread The Little Prince and
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A 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor on How Books Save Lives
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“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive.” It is often said that books save lives. Most of the time, however the
Philosophy as Modeling
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Is the task of philosophizing appropriately characterized as something like the modeling of phenomenon found in the sciences and social sciences, in …
I Am Not A Brain
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Examining Ethics Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
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by Eleanor Price Examining Ethics is an ethics podcast produced by The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. It’s produced by …
Santa Claus
Should We Lie to Our Children About Santa Claus?
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Parents should stop lying to children about Santa Claus. There is no justification for lying to children about a man who lives in the North Pole and …
Hull
Philosophy at Hull Threatened; Heads of 39 UK Philosophy Departments Object
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The administration of the University of Hull is prohibiting new students from beginning a course of study in philosophy. The Hull Daily Mail reports …
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Liberalism and Distributive Justice
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2018.12.19 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Samuel Freeman, Liberalism and Distributive Justice, Oxford University Press, 2018, …
Disability
CFP: Interrogating Disability and Prostheses
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Special Issue: Women, Gender & Research, 2020/1 The meaning and significance of bodily differences, norms of embodiment, and imaginaries about …
The Secret History of Cool
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CFA: NY SWIP
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If you’d like to offer a paper-in-progress for discussion at a Spring 2019 SWIPshop, please submit an abstract (up to 750 words) to …
Mini-Heap
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Welcome to the latest edition of Mini-Heap. A must-read letter from a chemistry professor to a university president on the latter’s decision to close …
Teaching
The Teaching Hub at the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA
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by Russell Marcus As you plan your schedule for the 2019 APA Eastern Division meeting, or if you’re still considering whether or not to attend, we …
German Philosophy
It is a banal philosophical idea, espoused by the Buddha, Sufi masters, Schopenhauer, Bergson, and Weil: Civilization depends
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Assessment & Improvement
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My adventures in assessment began in 2004 when I was assigned to the General Education Assessment Committee. I have served on that committee since …
Taxes
The merits of and case for Land Value Taxation
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Politics matters for tax as tax matters for politics. The high-minded Scottish economist Adam Smith had ‘four maxims of taxation’: 1) Tax should be …