Communities

...and yet one religious crazy is ready to fight for the right to sicken his parishioners! (Thanks to Jill Landowski for the pointer.)

This is very informative; an excerpt: The studies suggesting that [the new coronavirus] can be aerosolized are only preliminary, and other research contradicts it, finding no aerosolized coronavirus particles in the hospital rooms of Covid-19 patients. The weight of the...

My friend Michael Weisberg (Penn) called my attention to this amusing fact, although I had to admit to not knowing who or what Shakira was (I have since found out). Perhaps she will endow the Shakira Professorship of Ancient Philosophy?

I'm curious, and perhaps other readers are too, to hear how far out folks are cancelling planned travel for workshops, seminars, conferences etc. My last "live" event was in Madison, Wisconsin on March 11; from then on I've cancelled events...

Molly Gardner (ethics, environmental ethics, metaphysics), a fairly senior assistant professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida Gainseville, where I expect she will come...