Category: Conferences
A philosopher talking about evidential relations and inferences in the context of the JFK assassination couldn't be a crackpot. Could he?
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:05 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
This came up when I was making dinner. "Pasta primavera?" I asked. "I think that jumped the shark in about 1972," Uncle Fishy replied....
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:16 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
Using casuistry as a strategy to sharpen our ethical judgments.
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:47 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
At least, if you're a member of a philosophy department:...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
Conflating animal welfare and animal rights blocks dialogue about animal research.
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:30 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Maybe the advice columnist was into Bertand Russell?
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:38 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If memory serves, today is the day that the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association draws to a close. That meeting, always conveniently scheduled to fall in the interstices between Christmas and New Year's, and more...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is not an exhaustive account of my experiences at the PSA so far, but rather what's at the top of my Day-Quil-addled head:...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... and, if that philosopher is Brian Weatherson, you'll get a detailed consideration of cost, benefits, and rational strategies like this one: Voting is a lot like playing an n-player Prisoners Dilemma with the other people who (loosely speaking)...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Effect Measure, Revere takes issue with a science educator's hand-wringing over what science students (and scientists) don't know. In a piece at The Scientist, James Williams (the science educator in question) writes: Graduates, from a range of science...
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