My good brother and colleague, Robert Frodeman, critiques my friend and colleague Steve Fuller. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Author Information: Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas, Robert.Frodeman@unt.edu Frodeman, Robert. “Anti-Fuller: Transhumanism and the Proactionary Imperative.” Social Epistemology Review… Continue reading

Comics Debate & Discourse: How To Be a Hero By Being An Ally – Casey Gilly examines recent hot-button comics issues and talks through solutions for keeping the dialogue productive and compassionate. Source: www.comicbookresources.com “When an issue comes up that… Continue reading

There was a time when you could have pointed to a list of publications as a neat proxy for your academic life, but now you might want to reference not only your publications, but also a set of videos, presentations,… Continue reading

Scientists estimate that there are over 100,000 intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy alone—but we’ve never heard anything from any of them. Here are 13 possible explanations for why. Source: waitbutwhy.com Continue reading

On April 1, 2010, the professional philosopher Jonathan Dancy, who happens to be the father-in-law of Claire Danes, appeared on the Late Late Show to speak with Craig Ferguson about moral philosoph… Source: andrewjtaggart.com B Continue reading

Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: Your insistence begets your interlocutor’s (my) resistance, acquiescence, or consternation. You believe that P must be the right way of proceeding or Q is the right picture of the world and that we should act based… Continue reading

Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: I’m gonna cuss on the mic tonight. “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” Ben Folds My parents taught me that if you swear, it’s a sign of a poor vocabulary. If I expect my players to be… Continue reading

Originally posted on evocationcoffee: With the 2015 US Barista Championship in the books, I thought it would be a great time to share a project that I’ve been working on. Using the wonderful resource of sprudgelive.com, I compiled and arranged… Continue reading

How do we talk about the politics of cultural records? If we cannot preserve everything, who defines what is worth saving? Source: thenewinquiry.com Continue reading

Your brain isn’t so sure, according to Jeffrey M. Zacks’ new book Flicker. Source: www.psmag.com Continue reading

“Philosophers love to complain about bad reasoning. How can those other people commit such silly fallacies? Don’t they see how arbitrary and inconsistent their positions are? Aren’t the counter examples obvious? After complaining, philosophers often turn to humor. Can you… Continue reading

This is a dinner party in book form, although with topics such as torture, group agency, hate speech, and the afterlife, it’s not for the absent-minded. Source: www.popmatters.com Philosophizing via podcast, youtube, blogging, e-books, books… however philosophy can get beyond… Continue reading

While online smartphone games are all the rage, a new board game in designing a traditional Japanese-style rock garden is showing there is still a market for old-fashioned fun. Source: ajw.asahi.com Continue reading

An experiment not much bigger than a tabletop, using ultra-cold metal plates, could serve up a cosmic feast. It could give us a glimpse of quantum gravity and so lead to a “theory of everything“: one that unites the laws of quantum… Continue reading

Scientists are puzzled by a new image taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which found two bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The spots are noticeably brighter than other parts of the surface, which looks to be rocky and pockmarked.… Continue reading

Feeling a bit nippy? For now you’ll have to stick to your hat and scarf to warm up, but one day some antifreeze proteins from a fish or a tick might do the trick. In a preliminary study published Wednesday… Continue reading