Simpson’s Paradox

   Elie Mystal: “Am I in favor of a 68-year-old man punching a 15-year-old boy for not turning off his cell phone in preparation for landing? Hey man, it takes a village.”

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1. ponsibility — of imagination — Stephen Asma (Columbia College Chicago) and actor Paul Giamatti on the practice and philosophy of imagination
2. That time Aristotle allowed himself to be ridden like a pony by the “seductive” Phyllis to warn Alexander the Great about being manipulated by women — immortalized in a water dispenser for your home
3. “Women are said to be transformed into objects in AI, but injecting women’s humanity into AI objects makes these objects seem more human and acceptable” — do we learn something about gender and objectification from people’s reactions to robots and AI?
4. An animated video series on values in scientific modelling — from Stephanie Harvard (UBC) and Eric Winsberg (South Florida)
5. “More important than logic, is truth—and in particular, the truth of some contradictions” — a fascinating interview about logic with Zach Weber (Otago)
6. The very first edition of the complete works of Plato to appear in any language is up for auction — estimated to sell for up to $400,000 (scroll down). If you’re looking for a deal, consider the 2nd edition of book 2 of Aquinas’s Summa, estimated to go for $120,000
7. “Teaching Disability Studies… has given me insight into how much ableism is ‘baked into the bread’ of academia” — an interview with Jennifer Scuro (Miami U. of Ohio)

1. Simpson’s Paradox, by Jan Sprenger and Naftali Weinberger

Revised:

1. Gorampa [go rams pa], by Constance Kassor
2. Xenocrates, by Russell Dancy
3. Idiolects, by Alex Barber and Eduardo Garcia Ramirez
4. William Godwin, by Mark Philp
5. Philo of Larissa, by Charles Brittain and Peter Osorio
6. Hans Reichenbach, by Clark Glymour and Frederick Eberhardt
7. Moore’s Moral Philosophy, by Thomas Hurka
8. Dependence Logic, by Pietro Galliani

IEP   

1. Empirical Aesthetics, by Aenne Brielmann
2. Critical Thinking, by Jamie Carlin Watson
3. Humility Regarding Intrinsic Properties, by Lok-Chi Chan

NDPR     

1. Daniel Telech reviews The Moral Psychology of Hope, by Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl (eds.).

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Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media 

1. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Volume 1: Language, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking, and Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition, by Ernest Cassirer, reviewed by Adam Kirsch in The New York Review of Books.
2. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens, reviewed by Peter Bernhardt on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio.