Sunday, 27 March 2016

News in the Profession + Poll results - The Rankings of Philosophy

NEWS UIN THE PROFESSION

Mark Lance has been called out for bullying by the big cheese

Some great new 30 second videos over at Darlene

Jonathan Kvanvig  has changed which university he goes to

Eric Schwitzgebel has told us on two blogs about his typical work day, and it's compelling reading

Stephen Pinker now has his own site  http://stevenpinker.com/
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forthcoming articles
  1. Hugh MiddletonFlourishing and Posttraumatic Growth. An Empirical Take on Ancient Wisdoms.
    Considerations of well-being or flourishing include Maslow’s and Rogers’ concepts of self-actualisation and actualising tendency. Recent empirical findings suggest that only a modest proportion of the population might be considered to be flourishing. Separate findings focused upon the nature and determinants of post-traumatic growth identify it as comparable to flourishing, and facilitated by supported accommodation to the trauma. This can be understood as reflecting self-actualisation. Empirical findings such as these provide ontological stability to a set of phenomena that share (...)
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    SangWon LeeThe Dynamic Association of Being and Non-Being: Heidegger’s Thoughts on Plato’s Sophist Beyond Platonism.
    This article examines Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato’s Sophist, focusing on his attempts to grasp Plato’s original thinking of being and non-being. Some contemporary thinkers and commentators argue that Heidegger’s view of Plato is simply based on his criticism against the traditional metaphysics of Platonism and its language. But a close reading of his lecture on the Sophist reveals that his view of Plato is grounded in Plato’s questioning struggle with the ambiguous nature of human speech or language. For Heidegger, Plato’s (...)
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ALSO!

Really proud to have tied for fourth place at this wonderful poll at the Metametametablog! Thanks anon!



Current poll results:
1. Sir Ranksalot (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
2. Glaucon loses to Sir Ranksalot by 10–4
3. Diogenes of Sinope loses to Sir Ranksalot by 12–2, loses to Glaucon by 8–4
4. Tied:
Spiros loses to Sir Ranksalot by 13–1, loses to Diogenes of Sinope by 5–4
Pilos aka Purple Haze loses to Sir Ranksalot by 13–3, loses to Diogenes of Sinope by 6–4
6. Tied:
Magickal Replacement loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Spiros by 7–2
Rooster Burn loses to Sir Ranksalot by 13–1, loses to Spiros by 5–3
Crispy Artwell loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–0, loses to Spiros by 6–2
Generic Lou loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Spiros by 7–2
10. Justice Whineberg loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Crispy Artwell by 4–3
11. Jenny from the Blog loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Justice Whineberg by 4–2
12. Philodaria loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Jenny from the Blog by 3–1
13. The Ghent Balloon loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Philodaria by 4–2
14. Tied:
Comrade Drabek loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to The Ghent Balloon by 4–2
Mr. Can’t Stop Rough Blogging about Chalmers and Stanley loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–0, loses to The Ghent Balloon by 4–2
16. Splinter loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–0, loses to Mr. Can’t Stop Rough Blogging about Chalmers and Stanley by 2–1
17. Ed “Blackadder” Quasiarian loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Splinter by 2–1
18. Noetika loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–1, loses to Ed “Blackadder” Quasiarian by 2–1
19. Tied:
Brotevi loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–0, loses to Noetika by 3–2
Lance-a-lot loses to Sir Ranksalot by 14–0, loses to Noetika by 3–0

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Sunday, 13 March 2016

Ideas for Philosophy (In Memoriam to Hilary Putnam, wonderful philosopher and major senior figure

We have to look at the future

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Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)

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Hilary PutnamCogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvardvol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 2nd. ed., 1985.
Mind, Language and Reality. Philosophical Papers, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
Reason, Truth, and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Philosopher Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson Colle

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ge, and Academic 

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Freedom

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Twin Earth thought experiment

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Rorty e Wittgenstein.” Trans. Alessandro Pagnini. Iride n.s. 4/5 (January-December 1990): 313-317.
1991
Does the Disquotational Theory Really Solve All Philosophical Problems?” Metaphilosophy 22.1-2 (January-April 1991): 1-13. Repr. as “Does the Disquotational Theory of Truth Solve All Philosophical Problems?” in Words and Life (1994), 264-278.That psychological state does not determine extension will now be shown with the aid of a little science-fiction. For the purpose of the following science-fiction examples, we shall suppose that somewhere in the galaxy there is a planet we shall call Twin Earth
The French Revolution and the Holocaust: Can Ethics be Ahistorical?” Culture and Modernity: East-West Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Eliot Deutsch (Honmbe by 191–23, loses to Carl Ginet by 64–520. John Searle  loses to G.E.M. Anscombe by 191–23, loses to Carl Ginet by 64–5
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    1. Simon Caney (ed.) (forthcoming). Political Institutions for the Future: A Five-Fold Package. Oxford University Press.
      Governments are often so focused on short-term gains that they ignore the long term, thus creating extra unnecessary burdens on their citizens, and violating their responsibilities to future generations. What can be done about 
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      SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

      WHAT THE AUGUST 30 POST SHOULD HAVE SAID!

      In the August 30 post I attributed to Noam Chomsky views he disavowed in an e-mail to me (the  text of the message is my September 9 post).pr. in Mind, Language and Reality (1975), 441-451.
      Normal Models and the Field Sigma-star.” With Gustav Hensel. Fundamenta Mathematicae 64 (1969): 231-240.
      A Recursion-Theoretic ChaLanguage is the first broad area of human cognitive capacity for which we are beginning to obtain a description which is not exaggeratedly oversimplifiedracterization of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy.” With Gustav Hensel and Richard Boyd. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 141 (July 1969): 37-62.
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      A Note on the Hyperarithmetical Hierarchy.” With H. B. Enderton. Journal of Symbolic Logic 35.3 (September 1970): 429-430. 
      Is Semantics Possible?” Metaphilosophy 1 (July 1970): 187-201. Revised version in Language, Belief and Metaphysics. Contemporary Philosophic Thought: The International Philosophy Year Conferences at Brockport, vol. 1, ed. Howard E. Kiefer and Milton K. Munitz (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1970), 50-63. Repr. in Mind, Language and Reality (1975), 139-152.
      “Liberalism, Radicalism and C

      Hilary Putnam hilary.putnam@gmail.com

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           I am too pressed for time (too pressed at my present age, anyway), but I appreciate your message very much.
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    2.  I have never been able to forget. He said, "Surely half the pleasure of life is sardonic comment on the passing show". This blog is devoted to comments, not all of them sardonic, on the passing philosophical show. Hilary Putnam
    3. this? In this paper I propose a package of reforms to the ways in which policies are made by legislatures, and in which those policies are scrutinised, implemented and evaluated. The overarching aim is to enhance the accountability of the decision-making process in ways that take into (...)