As colleges and universities are increasingly focused on selling an experience (instead of imparting an education), people will become increasingly reluctant to pay that kind of money for a four-year-long vacation that leaves you only with a piece of paper to commemorate it.

Logical form bears the same kind of relationship to consequence that degrees celsius does to temperature. It is a system of measurement not a property of the thing measured.

Heidegger seems to argue that humans are superior to animals in Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and that biology is incapable of investigating life. I’m trying to argue that his lecture course does not need to be read in such an anthropocentric and hopeless way.

Sometimes love is objectifying. This is a bad kind of love, but it is genuine; and it takes a whole book exploring the metaphysics of love, beauty, and objectification to explain how this can be so. Along the way, there’s a lot to say about the self, oppressive beauty norms, and self-annihilation.

the most Christmascore philosopher is Noël Carroll, who was born on Christmas Day, has a Christmassy name, and even looks like Santa Claus

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I give a new interpretation & defense of Aldo Leopold’s influential land ethic in light of contemporary ecology. The core of AL's argument: just as our interdependence w/other humans yields obligations to human communities, our interdependence w/other species (+ abiotic) yields obligations to them.

Despite existing work on the value-ladenness of science, the connection between choices of specific non-epistemic values and trust in science has received less attention. Starting from accounts of trust involving acting in accordance to justice, I explore implications for choices in public health.

Practically all of the messiness, imprecision, speculative inference, volatile trust, partial success and informative failure involved in the conduct of actual communication is epistemically relevant to the epistemology of testimony.

The core pedagogy behind Philosophy as a Way of Life can be generalized across the curriculum. This is good because it centers all of higher education on human flourishing, which is kind of the point.