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Reproducibility of Scientific Results

3. December 2018 Philosophy News News

[New Entry by Fiona Fidler and John Wilcox on December 3, 2018.] The terms "reproducibility crisis" and "replication crisis" gained currency in conversation and in print over the last decade (e.g., [More]

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Dusting Off Dualism?

3. December 2018 Philosophy News News

by Matthew Owen Throughout the previous century dualism’s demise seemed imminent. During the 1970s Daniel Dennett (1978, p. 252) assessed the field of philosophy of ... Read [More]

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How did an uncharismatic Oxford medievalist create the most popular adventure story of the 20th century? Tolkien's stories had ideas, not ideology

3. December 2018 Philosophy News News

How did an uncharismatic Oxford medievalist create the most popular adventure story of the 20th century? Tolkien's stories had ideas, not [More]

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Narrow Content

3. December 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.12.01 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Juhani Yli-Vakkuri and John Hawthorne, Narrow Content, Oxford University Press, 2018, 213pp., $40.00 (hbk), ISBN [More]

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Plato’s mistake

2. December 2018 Philosophy News News

It started innocently enough at a lunch-time event with some friends at the Randolph Hotel in the centre of Oxford. ‘The trouble with Islam …’ began some self-opinioned pundit, and I knew where he [More]

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Toward the end of his life, René Girard’s views darkened. “More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning,” he wrote. “Its meaning is terrifying”

1. December 2018 Philosophy News News

Toward the end of his life, René Girard’s views darkened. “More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning,” he wrote. “Its meaning is [More]

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Bounded Rationality

30. November 2018 Philosophy News News

[New Entry by Gregory Wheeler on November 30, 2018.] Herbert Simon introduced the term 'bounded rationality' (Simon 1957: 198) as a shorthand for his brief against neoclassical economics and his [More]

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Publications undermining market competitiveness?

30. November 2018 Philosophy News News

In our newest "Ask a search committee member" thread, Nate writes: I earned my Ph.D. from an unranked program in 2016. My sense is that the unranked school at the top of my CV pretty much [More]

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APA Member Interview: Nel Noddings

30. November 2018 Philosophy News News

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall Nel Noddings is Lee Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of 21 books and ... Read [More]

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The Many Futures of a Decision

30. November 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.11.29 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Jay Lampert, The Many Futures of a Decision, Bloomsbury, 2018, 332pp., $94.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781350047785. Reviewed by James [More]

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