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Value for Money | Philosophy Impact
My colleague Steve Fuller contributes a draft of his latest article to the Philosophy Impact blog. In this article , I write as the UK partner of an exploratory project funded by the US National Science Foundation to critically evaluate current… Continue reading
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Debtfare: the Commodification of Student Debt
Despite the uneasy relationship between the profitable student loan industry and growing student debt defaults, students continue to borrow to pay for college, and educational loans are the only form of consumer debt to increase markedly since 2008. The industry… Continue reading
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asking pardon of the spirit of the tree
Originally posted on coromandal: Imagine asking pardon of the spirit of the tree before cutting a branch, of the mountain before extracting stone for aggregate, of the lake before fishing, the stream before removing water, the sky taking a bird, the earth… Continue reading
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Recognizing Human Dignity
It is risky to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases based on what the justices say at the oral argument. But Kennedy’s commitment to the principle of human dignity and his understanding of its role in protecting intimate relationships… Continue reading
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Decision
If I am no longer the man I was, it is because I decide to become the man I will be. Continue reading
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Karl Jaspers as Interdisciplinarian
A very solid piece on the interdisciplinary nature of Jaspers’ psychopathology as well as the connection of his first great work on the embodied mind to his later existential and historical works. As the managing editor of the Oxford Handbook… Continue reading
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Occupying Space
A man should be so poor that he is not and has not a place for God to act in. To reserve a place would be to maintain distinctions. Meister Eckhart quoted in Merton, Thomas. Zen and the Birds of… Continue reading
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Fate and the Wire
Tautological understanding is very much a part of The Wire‘s metaphysics. David Simon directs/authors the series structurally along the lines of Greek Tragedy rather than the Shakesperean variety. Essential paths–following the strict law of identity–play a huge role in instantiating a… Continue reading
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Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto
Data are increasingly used to govern science. Research evaluations that were once bespoke and performed by peers are now routine and reliant on metrics1. The problem is that evaluation is now led by the data rather than by judgement. Metrics… Continue reading
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How Legalizing Psychedelics Creates a Healthy Competition with Organized Religion
Organized religion is almost always a monopoly. Legalization of mind opening substances would lead to a free market of ideas that dogmatic superstructures cannot survive. In a culture that prides itself on a bizarro academic sense of rationality, there is… Continue reading
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