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Weird Studies Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

5. December 2018 Philosophy News News

by Phil Ford and JF Martel Dear JF, So the APA blog has been kind enough to invite us to say something about our podcast. ... Read [More]

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Conservatives in the Academy I: Do not want?

5. December 2018 Philosophy News News

While some have raised concerns that Marxism is a dire problem in higher education, a more realistic concern is that higher education is dominated by liberals (or at least Democrats). Conservatives [More]

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The secrets of newspaper names

5. December 2018 Philosophy News News

A few years ago, two colleagues of mine traveled around the country documenting what was going on in the newspaper industry, talking to editors, reporters, and publishers in all 50 states. Reading [More]

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Art is a way of contending with life, even in its shadiest corners. But does that cover artists like Egon Schiele, who displayed interest in prepubescent girls?

5. December 2018 Philosophy News News

Art is a way of contending with life, even in its shadiest corners. But does that cover artists like Egon Schiele, who displayed interest in prepubescent [More]

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Epistemic Consequentialism

5. December 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.12.04 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij and Jeffrey Dunn (eds.), Epistemic Consequentialism, Oxford University Press, 2018, 335pp., $70.00 (hbk), [More]

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Japanese Aesthetics

4. December 2018 Philosophy News News

[Revised entry by Graham Parkes and Adam Loughnane on December 4, 2018. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, splashed-ink-landscape.jpg, splashed-ink.html] Although the Japanese have been [More]

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The Ethics of #DeleteFacebook

4. December 2018 Philosophy News News

by Ted Lechterman Facebook’s foibles keep stacking up. It’s well known that the platform enabled Russian trolls to peddle propaganda and sow division before the ... Read [More]

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Does Marxism Rule the Academy?

4. December 2018 Philosophy News News

One talking point in the culture wars is that post-modern neo-Marxist college professors are indoctrinating the youth. Some take a more moderate view of college professors, simply regarding them as [More]

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Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

4. December 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.12.03 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Emily Thomas (ed.), Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 295pp., $99.99 (hbk), ISBN [More]

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Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other

4. December 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.12.02 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Colin Heydt, Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 289pp., [More]

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