I strongly recommend the following two interactive articles about the great climate migration. Part 1, “The Great Climate Migration,” shows how roughly 20% of the currently populated parts of the world will become virtually ...Read More ›
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The Berggruen Institute has a fellowship program to support academics and others across a range of disciplines, and among its most recent class of fellows are some philosophy professors and others working on philosophical subjects. ¶ The fellowship program supports work on topics related to several themes concerning “great transformations”: the Future of Capitalism, Globalization and Geopolitics, Transformations of the Human, and the Future of Democracy. [M.C. Escher, “Metamorphosis II” (detail)]The following are fellows from departments of philosophy, along with brief descriptions of what they’ll be working on during their fellowships: Weiwan Duan (Department of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) — ethical issues around facial recognition technology development and implementation. Yuk Hui (City University of Hong Kong) — issues in philosophy of technology. Qiaoying Lu (Peking University) — how to understand “minimal cognition” in light of evolution, and how to extend our understanding of human cognition and AI cognition. Sebastian Sunday Grève (Peking University)...
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Speech Acts: [Revised entry by Mitchell Green on September 24, 2020. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] We are attuned in everyday conversation not primarily to the sentences we utter to one another, but to the speech acts tha ...
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The Legacy of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics: The general attitude towards Arthur Schopenhauer’s metaphysics is rather fiercely critical and at times even tendentious. It seems that the figure of Schopenhauer as an irredeemably flawed, stubborn, ...
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Discrimination and coin tosses: Bob is deciding whom to hire for a job where race is clearly irrelevant to job performance. There are two clear front-runners. Bob hires the white front-runner because that candidate is white. Bob has done some ...
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Theophrastus: [Revised entry by Katerina Ierodiakonou on September 24, 2020. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Theophrastus (c. 371 - 287 BCE) was a Peripatetic philosopher who was Aristotle’s close colleague and successor at the L ...
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Philosophical Work Supported by Berggruen Fellowship Program
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Preparing for the end of the world as we know it
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Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordances: Unraveling the evolutionary role of affordancesby Manuel Heras-Escribano (June 2020)
Affordances, or the possibilities for acting in our environments, are pervasive in everyday life. We are ...
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Volunteering for a Covid Vaccine Trial: Fulfilling Hindu Obligations or Fostering Pharmaceutical Company Profits?: When I learned about the invitation to enroll in Moderna’s phase 3 clinical trial of mRNA-1273, its investigational vaccine ag ... Hastings Bioethics -
G.A. Barnard’s 105th Birthday: The Bayesian “catch-all” factor: probability vs likelihood
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The Ethics and Epistemology of Trust: The Ethics and Epistemology of Trust Trust is a topic of long-standing philosophical interest because it is indispensable to the success of almost every kind of coordinated human activity, from politics a ...
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Peoria Riverfront Park Dan Fogelberg Memorial Site “To every man the mystery Sings a different song He fills his page of history Dreams his dreams and is gone.” A few weeks ago I wrote a post about an especially moving song about death by the American musician Dan Fogelberg whose lyrical rhymes often touch on existential themes. I have listened to his entire musical opus and virtually every song he wrote says something profound about life. He is also a master of surprising phrases such as in “sweetest sorrow,” “thundering, velvet hand,” or evocative poetry like “Burning lines in the book of our lives.” Here are some more of his beautiful words and music. Part of the Plan I have these moments, all steady and strong I’m feeling so holy and humble The next thing I know, I’m all worried and weak And I feel myself starting to crumble The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed And you don’t know what you’re g... Read More ›
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I checked: I called the Chatham County Board of Elections and I think I am okay. The nice young lady at the other end of the phone told me that my vote has already been scanned into the system and will be reported on election day along with ...
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NOW I AM REALLY FRIGHTENED: Well, I took the suggestion to read this article in the Atlantic and now I am really scared. What can I do? The only thing I can think of is to call the Chatham County Board of Elections and make sure that my abse...
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A Norm for Self-Citation (guest post by Colin Klein)
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Gödel Without Tears, not quite the end: I was intending to post Chapter 17 today — the final chapter, dealing with Löb’s Theorem and related results. But looking again at my draft version yesterday, I thought it was/is rather a me...
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Challenges for Women in Online Philosophy: Performativity and Clout: Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy di...
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DONE AND DONE: Okay, I have donated $250 to each of four candidates or funds recommended by readers who offered suggestions. That takes care of my royalty check with a bit more added from what I save by only eating half a dinner each night wi...
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A REQUEST FOR HELP: I have a serious question for my readership. Because I am committed to keeping Susie and myself safe from the virus, and also because of physical considerations attendant upon my age, I cannot really get out and do door-to...
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The Copernican Principle of Consciousness: According to the Copernican Principle in cosmology, we should assume that we do not occupy a special or privileged place in the cosmos, such as its exact center. According to the Anthropic Principle ...
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CFP: Inaugural Conference – Society for the Study of Women in Phenomenology – March 19-20 2021.: Call for Papers
The Society for the Study of Women in Phenomenology (SSWPH) announces its inaugural international conference to be held virtu ...
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The Music of Dan Fogelberg
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Make Arrangements with Yourself: Reading Samuel Johnson’s poem reminded me of the enigmatic lines of Neil Young which may refer in an oblique way to hire purchase agreements/arrangements whereby when you have paid half the price of a vehicle ...
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Not "New Wave," not "Dark Wave," not even "Cold Wave." No, it's... : "Tragic Wave." Here’s the band, Drab Majesty with "Too Soon," from the "Demonstration" LP. First some Wikipedia though. Link’s below the embedded video. From Wik ...
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