Continuing on with our look back at the most-viewed discussions this past year: In March, Molly Gardner’s JMP paper “On the Strength of the Reason Against Harming” generated a lot of excellent comments. In April we had a lively discussion of Paulina Sliwa’s Ethics paper, “Moral […] Read More
What a year! Our first full year on the new site and under the guidance and financial support of the Prindle Institute seemed to have brought many new readers to the scene, as well as many new features and lots of excellent philosophy. Over the […] Read More
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What are the wrong-making features in this case? These are what seem to be the relevant details: “According to British news reports, Mr. Bramhall, 53, admitted to using an argon beam — an electrified gas jet that liver surgeons typically employ to stanch bleeding or […] Read More
It appears the final GOP bill will not make tuition remission for graduate students taxable. Sen. Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota, told Bloomberg: “Folks who are in grad school will feel pretty good about the final result.” Story here.
Daily Nous has the full story here. Imprint is an impressive open access journal. Its mission statement is vital reading. The journal deserves our support. Consider helping them out. I’ll cut and paste their Mission Statement below. It offers a vision of what the future […] Read More
Call for Papers: World Government Special issue of Philosophical Papers Guest editor: Attila Tanyi (University of Tromsø) Theorizing about world government has a long history. Formulations of some version of the idea already appear in Chinese, Indian as well as ancient Greek thought and later […] Read More
As Thanksgiving rolls around, it’s time to pause and take stock of how you got to be who you are, at least as a moral/political philosopher, and what giant’s shoulders you’ve been standing on to see as far as you’ve seen. What’s the ONE moral/political […] Read More
I’m happy to introduce our current Featured Philosophy, Gwen Bradford, who teaches at Rice University and has written a creative and insightful book on achievement. Her post today is on the nature and value of uniqueness. Please comment with your thoughts about the interesting new territory […] Read More