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Category: Roberta Millstein
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By Roberta Millstein John Protevi, founder and emeritus member of New APPS, has posted an "October Statement." By signing, one states one's opposition to the ranking of philosophy programs, whether in the form of the current PGR or in some other revised form. The statement contains links to those who have offered reasons for taking…
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A number of philosophers have signed the statement located here: https://sites.google.com/site/septemberstatement/ [Note that the Google site is currently down for 'a perceived violation of the Terms of Service'. There is an alternative, temporary site here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/421308/statement.html] Excerpt: It is up to each of us individually to decide what we will volunteer to do. The undersigned…
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By Roberta L. Millstein In a summer overly stuffed with horrible and depressing news, it's comforting to find a good tidbit here and there. A few of these recent tidbits have been about particular wild animals: A baby orca was born in Puget Sound and given the designation L-120, bringing the population of the "L…
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New APPS readers probably remember Helen De Cruz's excellent post on the polarized debate surrounding evolutionary science (which was picked up by NPR), as well as Roberta Millstein's follow-up post on the perhaps equally polarized debate concerning climate change. Both posts cite the work of Dan Kahan, who has a distinct take on these issues:…
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Here are some reasons I have found philosophy blogs to be beneficial; here I include New APPS (so my bias is obvious), but my comments here are not limited to New APPS, by any means. First, while I had heard stories here and there of sexism and exclusion of other underrepresented minorities, they seemed like…
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I'm not sure that the APA has this right. The APA guidelines for submitting papers state: All papers are anonymously reviewed. Author's name, institution, or references pertaining to the identity of the author must be removed from the paper, abstract, notes, and bibliography. Papers containing such identifying references may be rejected. There are at least…
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(This is a companion piece to Top Ten Reasons philosophers of science should post their papers to PhilSci Archive) 10.You can be the first to know what's new in philosophy of science. 9. It's a fast way to survey recent work on any topic in philosophy of science. 8. It's a fast way to find…
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10. You can get an accepted but-not-yet-published paper read right away, without waiting for those sometimes lengthy publication times. 9. You can increase the visibility of your work because a) PhilSci-Archive articles score highly in Google searches and b) sites like PhilPapers scan PhilSci-Archive and will include links to your papers automatically. 8.…
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With the successful launching of Ergo, it seems worth highlighting a recent announcemnt of another open access journal that has arrived on the scene: αnalytica. It is: …an open-access, English-language electronic journal dedicated to the philosophy of science. αnalytica is edited by a younger generation of Greek philosophers of science, with the aid and support…
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In an earlier post, I discussed Nicholas Wade provocative new book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, and mentioned that it had been getting a lot of reviews and attention because of its controversial claim that contemporary science supports the view that biological races really exist after all. But now, the definitive review…
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