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Category: Jon Cogburn
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The gypsies had no home. The doors had no bass. Nor bass:
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Full CFP at Leon Niemoczynski's After Nature blog HERE. John Caputo's going to be hosting it. I saw him speak a couple of years ago to a group of philosophers, theologians, ministers, and laypeople and it was dynamite. If I remember right, during the question and answers "the new metaphysics" (not meant as scare quotes)…
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This morning I was rereading this string, where we discussed things not to do at conferences, and I noticed a comment by Neal Hebert: Although I can't speak for Jon on this, I do think this is a good place to point out that some of the above are next to unthinkable at conferences in…
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A few days ago, I used the lack of historical figures in its top-20-pernicious list to propose that Leiter’s poll about pernicious philosophers said a lot about the politics of academic philosophy, and not so much about anything else. “Pernicious,” in other words, is a political designation. In the comments, Jon Cogburn wonders: “You had…
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Sometimes it really is great to see the hammer of justice descend. Can you imagine what could have happened if Mark Emmert had helped himself to whatever this guy's been eating? This being said, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar here makes a pretty good argument that nobody involved should be doing a victory dance.
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Are students aware that most of their professors can accurately predict their final grades prior to the final exam or paper? Is this just hubris on my part, or do people in the biz long enough get very good at this? If it's not hubris, then it raises a genuine practical ethics problem. If I…
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I might be being an idiot here, but I can't for the life of me figure out how the following inference is disallowed in the Barker-Plummer/Barwise/Etchemendy textbook: 1. Ex(Rax) 2. ExEx (Rxx) 1, E introduction This is clearly invalid, because there are anti-symmetric relations (note that if it were valid one can prove ExEx (Rxx)…
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Have you done any of the following or had them done to you? Changing your paper after receiving written versions of the comments, so that the comments no longer make sense (Eric Schliesser on this HERE). If you are a senior European philosopher, instead of asking a question during the Q&A, just telling the junior…
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Two new books argue that pre-agricultural societies were far more Hobbesian than Rousseauean. Read the Spectator review of Ian Morris’ War: What is it Good For? The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots here, which includes this: If sometime around 7a.m. on 1 July 1916, as you waited to go over the…
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HERE. Lot's of great stuff. Epistemology and ethics form a strong plurality this month. There are two by newappsers and one by friend of the blog Joshua Knobe and one cool interview with friend of the blog Roy Cook. Very happy to see Aesthetics for Birds' Christy Mag Uidhir interviewing Cook about his Lego work.…
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