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  • Relaunching Northern Michigan University’s Philosophy Club 

    an hour ago
    Philosophy, as a discipline, thrives on dialogue, debate, and the innovative exchange of ideas. However, for many students, their engagement with the subject can often feel limited to the classroom, where academic achievement takes precedence over the development of these unique perspectives through stimulating discussions. At Northern Michigan University (NMU), my fellow students and I []

  • Are prudential reasons just moral reasons?

    18 hours ago
    We have many reasons for acting. We have moral reasons to respect other people’s autonomy. We also have reasons stemming from our desires. For instance, we have reasons to make tea if we desire tea. There is some controversy, however, about whether we have reasons to promote our future well-being in ways that come apart []

  • 2018 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy, Feminism, and Care

    22 hours ago
    Below is the audio recording of Virginia Held’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy, Feminism, and Care,” given at the 2018 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: “Philosophy, Feminism, and Care” by Virginia Held. []

  • Learning about Learning Transformed the Way I Teach

    yesterday
    Introduction Being in academia, we are specially positioned to make a meaningful impact on the lives of our students. How often does anyone get the opportunity to spend a few hours per week, over the course of several months, educating, influencing, and shaping the way someone thinks? As teachers, we can not only provide knowledge []

  • Beyond Civility & Incivility

    2 days ago
    We have all heard the well-worn complaint that we live in a divided world. It is worse than that: we are divided over whether we should remain divided. This meta-division problem is nowhere more apparent than in the flamethrowing arena of political rhetoric, especially on social media. On the one hand, some call for civility []
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Daily Nous

  • Philosophy Essay Contests

    an hour ago
    Over at Philosophers Cocoon, one of their readers asked for help putting together a list of philosophy essay competitions. There are a few listed there, but I thought I might also ask here for people...

  • Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings

    yesterday
    As artificial intelligence (or artificial intelligence if you insist) is put to increased use in an increased variety of ways, teaching about it has been increasing, too. A reader writes in: With the...

  • The Hunger for Meaning

    2 days ago
    It is tempting to dismiss Peterson as a stupid person’s idea of a smart person. But perhaps he is just a desperate person’s idea of an intellectual lifeline. Thats from Becca Rothfelds recent Washington...

  • Martha Bolton (1943-2024)

    2 days ago
    Martha Brandt Bolton, professor emerita of philosophy at Rutgers University, died this past October. (The following memorial notice was provided by Dean Zimmerman.) Martha Bolton (1943-2024) Professor...

  • For Faculty: the Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy

    2 days ago
    The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) will be taking place once again this summer. NEWLAMP is an annual workshop aimed at helping professors integrate under-represented...
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Philosopher's Cocoon

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Aeon Philosophy

  • Can you transplant a head to another body?

    3 hours ago
    ‘Are you a mind with a body or a body with a mind?’ The legacy of a 1970 ‘head transplant’ experiment performed on monkeys - by Aeon Video ...

  • A valiant experiment

    yesterday
    The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa - by David Dyzenhaus...

  • A series of headaches: Shakespeare’s First Folio meets the London Review of Books

    2 days ago
    Reviving the nearly lost printing processes of Shakespeare’s day is a labour of love and an act of connection with the past - by Aeon Video ...

  • Exploding the Big Bang

    2 days ago
    It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt - by Daniel Linford...

  • A linkless internet

    5 days ago
    In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum - by Collin Jennings ...
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