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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Sea-level rise could threaten coastal nuclear waste facilities

After Co-Worker Died of COVID, 2 Texas Educators Fired for Union Organizing Payday Report


The Children Are Starving Heisenberg Report 


I’m actually not that sad that we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day during a pandemic since it means everyone can celebrate comfortably at home.



 A Nairobi Entrepreneur Is Recycling Plastic Waste into Bricks That Are More Durable Than ConcreteThis Colossal 


Sea-level rise could threaten coastal nuclear waste facilities Yale Climate Connections


Audit raises concerns about wildfire risks at U.S. nuclear lab PBS 


Idealism, by Paul Guyer and Rolf-Peter Horstmann.


Understanding the Rise of “Socialism” Brad DeLong 


Ancient Ethical Theory, by Richard Parry and Harald Thorsrud.


Biodiversity, by Daniel P. Faith.


Maimonides, by Kenneth Seeskin.


Cosmological Argument, by Bruce Reichenbach.

Aristotle’s Categories, by Paul Studtmann.


Games, Full Abstraction and Full Completeness, by Felice Cardone.


Conservation Biology, by Jay Odenbaugh.

IEP   

  1. What Else Science Requires of Time, by Bradley Dowden.

NDPR   

  1. Colin Farrelly reviews Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement (Routledge), by Jonathan Anomaly.
  2. Eric Schwitzgebel reviews Combining Minds: How to Think about Composite Subjectivity (Oxford), by Luke Roelofs.

1000-Word Philosophy  

  1. Free Speech, by Mark Satta.

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media 

  1. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord is reviewed by Jim Holt at The New York Review of Books
  2. The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds is reviewed by Daniel Johnson at The Critic and by Caspar Jacobs at Oxonia
  3. The Failures of Greek Philosophy: A Historical Essay by Stephen Gaukroger is reviewed by Jane O’Grady at Times Higher Education
  4. Philosophy Through Science Fiction, edited by Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel is reviewed by Jane O’Grady at The Telegraph.