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Rehumanizing the University
Organized by the Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere
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What Evolution Can't Tell Us about Women's Sex and Work
Carla Fehr (Waterloo)
Wednesday, 7:00 pm in Millhopper Library Branch
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Ignorance, Women and Excellent Science
Carla Fehr (Waterloo)
Thursday, 7:30 pm in Ustler Hall
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UF/FSU Graduate Philosophy Conference
Organized by the UF Graduate Student Philosophy Society.
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Moral Perception and Moral Qualia
Steve MacFarlane (FSU)
10:00 am in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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On Emotive Theories of Arguments
Jordan Dopkins (UF)
11:10 am in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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In Praise of Neo-Strawsonian Blame
Kyle Fritz (UF)
1:30 pm in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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Answerability, Blameworthiness, and Manipulation
Daniel Miller (FSU)
2:40 pm in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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Fun with Body Swapping: Reconsidering the Plight of Bernard Williams' A & B
Ron Claypool (UF)
3:50 pm in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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Teaching and Learning: A Speech Act
George Belic (UF)
5:00 pm in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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Leibniz' Law Arguments
André Gallois (Syracuse)
4:00 pm in Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall
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Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference
Organized by the UF Graduate Student Philosophy Society.
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Being Healthy and Doing Good
—Philosophy Nowaudio
Do you have an obligation to maintain your health? What role should the government have in promoting healthier living?
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Maybe a Little Compulsory Philosophy Would Be a Good Thing
—The Telegraph [UK] (Feb 7)
Columnist Allan Massie writes, "Perhaps we have something to learn from the Brazilians. Perhaps the teaching of philosophy should be mandatory in our schools too."
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The Trouble With Reasoning
—Elucidations (Jan 20)
"Imagine that you are worried that you have a rare disease for which there is a reliable test. If you take this test and it returns a positive result, how certain should you be that you have the disease? Or consider the following: Linda was a philosophy student at Berkeley in the 1960's who fought for social justice and nuclear disarmament. Is it more likely that she is currently a bank teller or a feminist bank teller? Philosopher Brian Fitelson (Berkeley) provides the answers to these questions, observes the surprising fact that a supermajority of us consistently answer these sorts of questions incorrectly, and offers an illuminating account of why this might be." [audio]
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Cognitive Enhancement
—The Atlantic (Feb 6)
Philosopher Allen Buchanan on cognitive enhancement.
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The Future of the American Philosophical Association
—Inside Higher Ed (Feb 6)
On the American Philosophical Association's crises of identity.
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Applied Philosophy: Punk-Pop Fusion
—LA Times (May 9)
With songs like "The Leibniz Language" and "The Actress That Ate Rousseau", philosophy major, guitarist and punk-pop vocalist Teri Gender Bender rips up the carpet with her band Le Butcherettes. "I was just being hateful toward other people, and I decided I was going to make this band."
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The Case for Moral Enhancement
—ABC [Australia] (Nov 19)
"Oxford-based, Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu is a provocateur. He's argued the case for a 'new eugenics' and that we have a moral obligation to pursue human perfection. Now he thinks we should be using science and technology for moral enhancement itself. Could the future of humanity depend on it?"
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Politics of Persons
—New Books in Philosophy (Feb 1)
Review of John Christman's The Politics of Persons: Individual Autonomy and Socio-historical Selves.
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Seeing What You Mean
—NPR (Feb 3)
Philosopher Alva Noë reflects on recent advances in "brainreading" and beyond.
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Moral Philosophy and Income Inequality
—The Atlantic (Feb 2)
What does Rawls' theroy of justice have to say about income inequality?
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Socrates: the Man and the Myth
—Philosophy Now (Jan 31)
A discussion of Socrates' ideas and role in Western philosophy. [audio]
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On the Importance of Being Naïve
—3am Magazine (Jan 31)
An interview with philosopher Jason Stanley. "Jason Stanley is a multi-groove philosopher at Rutgers. He translated some Frege with Richard Heck. He wrote a cool book Knowledge and Practical Interests and last year a brain-boning book Know How that lames the virtue epistemology and ethics tradition started way back with the Ancient Greeks. He thinks philosophy is perpetual crisis. For many he is to philosophy what Ocarina of Time is to video games."
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The Philosophy Show
—City Guide NY (Jan 29)
"'The Philosophy Show,' a one-of-a-kind show of original standup material by teenage comedians . . . Quirky and often slightly mordant, with a sophistication that belies their youth."
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Liberty, Equality, Hostility
—NY Times (Feb 1)
The inability of conservatives and liberals to get along may be traced back to the French Revolution.
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Are We Ready for the Morality Pill?
—NY Times (Jan 28)
Peter Singer and Agata Sin consider whether it would be ethical to produce, or take, a drug that makes us more likely to help others.
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Criminal Responsibility and Morality
—Philosophy Bites (Jan 27)
What is criminal responsibility? How does the criminal law relate to morality? Is criminal responsibility a timeless concept, or is it tied to historical circumstances, part of a social practice? [audio]
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Philosophers Respond to Occupy Wall Street
—Possible Futures (Jan 25)
A report on the American Philosophical Association session, "Thinking Occupation: Philosophers Respond to Occupy Wall Street" at the most recent Eastern Division meeting of the APA.
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Ethics Without Philosophers
—Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies (Jan 25)
"How is it that people without philosophy degrees are becoming ethics consultants? Is it that people don't know that Ethics is a branch of Philosophy? . . . Is it that people think they already know right from wrong, they learned it as children, there's really no need for any formal training in ethics? . . . Or is it that ethics consultants . . . don't really act as consultants about ethics? They act as consultants about managing ethical behavior. No, not even that."
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Kill Drones and the Ethics of Warbots
—Philosophers' Magazine (Jan 20)
A discussion of the ethics and impact on future of warfare of the development and deployment of ever more sophisticated and lethal military "drones."
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The Meaning of Disgust
—Inside Higher Ed (Dec 7)
A review of Colin McGinn's book The Meaning of Disgust.
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Philosopher Wins Erasmus Prize
—Press Release (Jan 25)
Philosopher Daniel Dennett has won the esteemed Erasmus Prize for 2012
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Philosophical Crazyism
—3am Magazine (Jan 20)
An interview with philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel.
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Philosophy, What's the Use?
—NY Times (Jan 25)
Gary Gutting responds to the oft-heard charge that philosophy has nothing relevant to say to non-philosophers.
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Politics Enters the 4th Dimension
—NY Times (Jan 21)
Esteemed philosopher, John Perry, says the practice of characterizing political positions along a single left-right dimension is hopelessly inadequate to today's political realities. Perry shows us how take it to the next level and beyond.
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Philosopher to Meme in 60 Seconds
—Free Press (Jan 22)
How philosopher Jason Read became an internet meme.
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How to Argue About Politics
—NY Times (Jan 18)
Philosopher Gary Gutting reflects on the differences in how arguments are shaped in philosophical debate and political debate, and draws some useful lessons.
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Philosopher Develops Trans-Species Internet Game
—Aiken Standard (Jan 24)
Philosopher Clemens Driessen has collaborated with game designers to create the internet game, Pig Chase. The game-play consists of live human-pig interaction. It sounds like you will be chasing pigs, but no, it is much better than that . . . the pigs chase you. Cf. also Scientific American and the Playing With Pigs project website.
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On Human Rights
—Philosophy Now (Jan 17)A discussion of "the philosophical foundations, implications and limits of human rights with Saladin Meckled-Garcia, the Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights, and Tom Sorrell, Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham." [audio]
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Lure of the Peak
—New Republic (Jan 11)Philosopher Philip Kitcher reviews Derek Parfit's two-volume On What Matters.
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Nietzsche's Reception in America
—NY Times (Jan 13)A review of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's new book, American Nietzsche, which explores the initial reception and transformation of Nietzsche's ideas in America.
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How to Talk to a Philosopher
—Wired (Jan 10)Wired Magazine gives advice on how to talk to a philosopher and even advises that you should.
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Philosophers in Conversation
—Press Release (Jan 20)The new book, Philosophers in Conversation: Interviews from the Harvard Review of Philosophy is a collection of interviews conducted over many years by student members of the Harvard Review of Philosophy. The collection includes a rare interview with John Rawls.
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Philosophy Before the Big Bang
—The Atlantic (Jan 19)"What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers." An interview with Tim Maudlin on philosophy of cosmology. Maudlin and a team of other philosophers from Columbia, Yale, and NYU recently secured significant funding for a research intiative in philosophy of cosmology.
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Philosophy of Comedy
—NewJersey.com (Jan 18)Cosby, Freud, Kant, and that most light-hearted of philosophers, Schopenhauer, weigh in on what is so funny.
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Philosophy a Weak Point for Science Students
—Irish Times (Jan 19)"It is important to know the nature and strength of the pillars on which scientific knowledge is based."
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Predictive Mind, JPEG Brain
—NY Times (Jan 15)"Recent studies indicate that our brains may work like JPEGS, conserving "bandwidth" and influencing how we see the world." [Update: Philosopher Andy Clark follows up with some of the comments on his original essay.]
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Ethics of Climate Change
—PhilosophyTV (Dec 2)Philosophers Avram Hiller and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discuss global climate change and issues of ethics and the environment. [video]
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The Ethical Project
—Montreal Review (Jan 12)A brief of Philip Kitcher's new book, The Ethical Project. "Ethics is something human beings have been working out together for most of our history as a species. The needs that prompt the cooperative activity of the ethical project lie deep in our human characteristics."
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Socrates in the 21st Century
—Metro [UK] (Jan 12)In her latest book, All is Song, novelist and philosophy major Samantha Harvey brings the story of Socrates into the 21st century. "I wanted to ask what would happen now to someone like that, someone who was relentlessly questioning."
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What is College For? Part 2
—NY Times (Jan 11)"If I am right about the basic purpose of higher education, there are serious practical difficulties in maintaining this purpose, given other tasks we currently assign to higher education. Most prominently, we expect colleges and universities to give students what they need to find well-paying jobs. . . . How, exactly, does college prepare students for the workplace?"
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