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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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Rish tapestry: Health Care Analysis forthcoming articles Hugh Middleton, Flourishing 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 (...) Biomedical Ethics in Applied Ethics  Direct download (2 more)    Export citation    My bibliography   Human Studies forthcoming articles  1  SangWon Lee, The 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 (...) No categories  Direct download (2 more)    Export citation    My bibliography

ALSO!

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

anon

March 25, 2016 at 6:16 pm

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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