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Category: Jon Cogburn
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A few days ago, while trying to open the interwebs thingy to allow me to start entering my grades, I was prevented from doing so by a pop-up menu that referenced LSU's Policy Statement 67. The text included unsubstantiated and highly dubious claims such as that most workplace problems are the result of drugs and alcohol…
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Earlier this year at the Translating Realism conference I was pretty blown away by Adrian Johnston. Part of it was his talk (which, with the Q&A, lasted two hours but seemed like fifteen minutes), but a lot of it was just his behavior as an invited speaker. He went to every talk in the conference, participated helpfully…
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Report by Jonathan Derbyshire here. This decade's eructation is the official publication of Heidegger's Schwarzen Hefte. The earlier story at Le Nouvel Observateur is here. The French article is interesting because it notes that Heidegger specified the release dates of all this stuff, including these notebooks, right before his death. It also describes Hadrian France-Lanord, of a…
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Philosophers' Carnival #158 is HERE.
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When I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas in the late 80s there was the huge fad of philosophers making fun of professors in other departments who had appropriated philosophical thinking for their own projects. Honestly, it's pretty easy work for people who spend their lives just studying philosophy to beat up on…
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My Mom taught in a prison in the mid 1980s, which was a weird era in lots of ways. The movie War Games had come out in 1983, and inmates as a result had very strange views about what computers could and couldn't do. Even though none of the prison computers at that point were…
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While reading this recent KCNA article about the execution of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un's uncle, I was really struck by just how transparently stupid the thing is from beginning to end. It never really tells you what the uncle did that was so bad, but just accuses him of broad classes of sin: The…
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Nice article here about Henry Markram's theoy of autism as "intense world syndrome," which entails that: The behavior that results is not due to cognitive deficits—the prevailing view in autism research circles today—but the opposite, they say. Rather than being oblivious, autistic people take in too much and learn too fast. While they may appear…
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Nice article in today's NY Times here about MOOCs not doing all that Thomas Friedman (cf. his entirely predictably earlier puff piece) had quite hoped. If the links don't work, just reset your browser history and they will open up. Here's a nice bit: But the pilot classes, of about 100 people each, failed. Despite access…
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