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  • Dark Ecology as the Higher Misanthropy

    It is a signal pleasure to announce that this week slowlorisblog is hosting an essay by Dr. Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, UK. Dr. Fuller joins us today to discuss a fascinating intellectual movement–Dark Ecology–in terms both of its historical development and the…

  • Alan Watts – Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching – YouTube

    Alan Watts – Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching – YouTube

     

  • Anti-Fuller: Transhumanism and the Proactionary Imperative, Robert Frodeman

    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 and Reply Collective 4, no. 4 (2015): 38-43. The PDF…

  • Comics Debate & Discourse: How To Be a Hero By Being An Ally – Comic Book Resources

    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 hits emotional spots, the compulsion is to react — and…

  • The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity

    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, blog posts, curated collections, and maybe even your social network.…

  • The Fermi Paradox – Wait But Why

    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

  • What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance

    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

  • Insistence itself is in the wrong

    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 on P or Q. And I react to your forceful, impactful words either by fighting against…

  • I Swear: On “Grit,” Adult Hypocrisy, and Privilege

    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 disciplined, then I have to be, too. Dean Smith Few…

  • Coffee Competition by the Numbers

    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 data on the 2015 regional competition circuit to identify trends…

  • The Collection and the Cloud

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

  • What’s the Difference Between Film and Reality?

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

  • Authentic sharing – The New Inquiry

    I thought I should share this… “Sharing economy,” of course, is a gratingly inappropriate terms to describe a business approach that entails precisely the opposite, that renders the social field an arena for microentrepreneurship and nothing else. Yet the vestiges of “sharing” rhetoric clings to such companies as Airbnb and a host…

  • Does philosophy matter? | OUPblog

    “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 believe what they said! Ha, ha, ha. Let’s make fun…

  • Philosophy Bites Again Is a True Philosophical Gourmet

    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 the walls of academe into the life of the commons.

  • Hit board game lets players compete in designing aesthetic rock gardens – Asahi Shimbun

    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

  • Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact | Information & Culture

    In a fit of genius, J. Britt Holbrook and colleagues from the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas proposed a list of 56 Indicators of Impact, ranging from “# of citations” to “meetings with important ppl.”[1] Subsequently published in the hallowed pages of Nature…

  • Ultra-cold mirrors could reveal gravity’s quantum side

    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 mechanics, governing the very small, and those of general relativity,…