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Truth

16. August 2018 Philosophy News News

[Revised entry by Michael Glanzberg on August 16, 2018. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a [More]

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The purpose of the canon

16. August 2018 Philosophy News News

By Martin Lenz Inspired through a blog post by Lisa Shapiro and a remark by Sandra Lapointe, I began to think about the point of (philosophical) ... Read [More]

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How can we help you? (August 2018)

16. August 2018 Philosophy News News

Now that the academic year and j0b-market season are here, I thought it might be a good time to run another 'how can we help you?' post (I'm going to try to run one of these posts each month now, [More]

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"A curious situation has arisen." That's how Leonard Bernstein began an unusual pre-concert address to an audience. He went on to disavow the performance he was about to conduct

16. August 2018 Philosophy News News

"A curious situation has arisen." That's how Leonard Bernstein began an unusual pre-concert address to an audience. He went on to disavow the performance he was about to [More]

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African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures: A Critical Edition of Lectures of Alain Locke

16. August 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.08.21 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jacoby Adeshei Carter, African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures: A Critical Edition of Lectures of Alain [More]

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New Draft on Right-Making Features

15. August 2018 Philosophy News News

I've a new draft paper, 'The Right Wrong-Makers', which argues as follows:Right- and wrong-making features ("moral grounds") play important normative roles, e.g. in morally apt or virtuous [More]

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Women in Philosophy: Trans Philosophers and The Politics of Bathrooms

15. August 2018 Philosophy News News

by Tamsin Kimoto Trans scholars have written extensively on the politics of bathrooms and other sites of administrating gender. Perry Zurn, for example, has done extensive ... Read [More]

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Ibn Sina's Logic

15. August 2018 Philosophy News News

[New Entry by Riccardo Strobino on August 15, 2018.] Ibn Sīnā [hereafter: Avicenna] (980 - 1037 CE) is - directly or indirectly - the most influential logician in the Arabic tradition. His work is [More]

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The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays

15. August 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.08.18 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Richard Moran, The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays, Oxford University Press, 2017, 326pp., $74.00 (hbk), ISBN [More]

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Race & Traffic Stops

15. August 2018 Philosophy News News

For many liberals, it is simply intuitive that the police stop more black motorists than white. Conservatives tend to dismiss this intuition as mere liberal bias. Intuitions and ideology are not a [More]

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