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NBC Chicago article here: Northwestern University professor Peter Ludlow, the target of a sexual harassment complaint by a female student, filed a response to that woman’s lawsuit in Cook County Court on Friday, denying her allegations and stating that she was the real aggressor.  Daily Northwestern article here: Philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow responded Friday to a…

With all the stories in the news lately about bitcoins, and with our recent discussions of the role of central banks in creating money, I thought I would post two recent articles/blog posts that I think provide a good analysis of the present situation as well as some good proposals for what the future of…

We've had lots of discussions on this blog about how the climate for women in Philosophy compares to other disciplines.   Here is, if not some data, at least some anecdote. What do readers think?  Does this provide a foothold for pursuing that discussion?  If so, what can we (provisionally) conclude?

West Virginia Snowpack in the Sierras Lake Michigan 

We have all read various things about various agents tracking us via our phones and our phone use.  But none of them has struck me in such a visceral way as this. The Ukranian Government sent a text message to thousands of protestors that said: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass…

I am going through David Papineau's beautiful little book, Philosophical Devices, and I've run accross a claim that I don't understand.   He claims the following is a contingent fact that I can know a priori: (J) Julius invented the Zip.   (Where 'Julius' is defined as "the inventor of the zip.") He notes that "The…

If you do, you must not live in California or West Virginia.     The water supplies of two different states are seriously threatened this year.   In West Virginia, we have two recent devolopments.   One is that the Governor has declared that he is not a scientist and has no opinion about whether his state's…

Everyone who follows NFL football has surely heard about the Richard Sherman "controversy" by now.   After making the game winning defensive play against the 49ers in the NFC championship game, Sherman gave the interview posted below.    I found the following blog post about the media coverage of this "controversy" to be pretty much…