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Metamorphosis: The Margaret Battin Story
It's the workaholics who are told that "your work is your life". It's many in academia who find that they are drawn to study the issues that afflict them or plague them or trouble them most about themselves or about the world. But in the case of Margaret "Peggy" Battin,... (read the rest)
Do You Want Fries with That?
One of the oldest jokes around for those trained in philosophy includes a punch line about serving fries at insert name of favorite fast food restaurant. Well, it would appear at, at least in the UK, the view of one columnist about the value of philosophy degrees, thanks to the... (read the rest)
Can Plato pay the bills?
According to an article earlier this week in NYT, philosophy has become a hot major on college campuses: Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old discipline... (read the rest)
Steven Pinker on "The Moral Instinct"
Yesterday's NYT Mag included an article by Steven Pinker about the science of morality: ... Illusions are a favorite tool of perception scientists for exposing the workings of the five senses, and of philosophers for shaking people out of the naïve belief that our minds give us a transparent window... (read the rest)
Toward a theory of life
Seed recently posted an interesting article from Carl Zimmer about the multidisciplinary effort to develop a theory -- instead of a defintion -- of life: "A science in which the most important object has no definition—that's absolutely unacceptable," says [Radu Popa, geobiologist and the author of Between Probability and Necessity:... (read the rest)
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