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The Definition of Art

14. August 2018 Philosophy News News

[Revised entry by Thomas Adajian on August 14, 2018. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The definition of art is controversial in contemporary philosophy. Whether art can be defined has also [More]

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Frank and Zwier Win the 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

14. August 2018 Philosophy News News

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. David Frank (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Dr. Karen Zwier (Iowa State University) have been ... Read [More]

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V.S. Naipaul was a grumpy reactionary whose sense of humor bordered on cruelty. His irascibility sharpened his vision

14. August 2018 Philosophy News News

V.S. Naipaul was a grumpy reactionary whose sense of humor bordered on cruelty. His irascibility sharpened his [More]

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The Philosophical Imagination: Collected Essays

14. August 2018 Philosophy News News

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

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Humean Nature: How Desire Explains Action, Thought, and Feeling

13. August 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.08.17 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Neil Sinhababu, Humean Nature: How Desire Explains Action, Thought, and Feeling, Oxford University Press, 2017, 214pp., $70.00 [More]

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Proof Theory

13. August 2018 Philosophy News News

[New Entry by Michael Rathjen and Wilfried Sieg on August 13, 2018.] Proof theory is not an esoteric technical subject that was invented to support a formalist doctrine in the philosophy of [More]

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Job-market discussion thread (2018-19 season)

13. August 2018 Philosophy News News

Each year, readers have asked for place to discuss and commiserate about the job-market. While I recognize it's early in the job-season, jobs are already starting to go up at philjobs. Given how [More]

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Sequencing Infants

13. August 2018 Philosophy News News

It is now a common practice to sequence infants to test for a variety of conditions. From a moral standpoint, it seems obvious that these tests should be applied and expanded as rapidly as cost and [More]

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Medical Nihilism

13. August 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.08.16 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jacob Stegenga, Medical Nihilism, Oxford University Press, 2018, 227pp., $39.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780198747048. Reviewed by [More]

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Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: From the Notes of G. E. Moore

12. August 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.08.15 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews David Stern, Brian Rogers, and Gabriel Citron (eds.), Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: From the Notes of G. E. Moore, [More]

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