Tuesday, January 25, 2022

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New:

  1. Thomas Hill Green by David Brink.
  2. Philosophy in Han Dynasty China by Alexus McLeod.
  3. Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy by Monima Chadha.

Revised: 

  1. George Boole by Stanley Burris
  2. The Economic Analysis of Law by Lewis Kornhauser.
  3. Nicolai Hartmann by Keith Peterson and Roberto Poli.

IEP        ∅          

NDPR      

  1. Perception by Adam Pautz is reviewed by Dimitria Electra Gatzia.
  2. Hegel’s Theory of Normativity: The systematic Foundations of the Philosophical Science of Right by Kevin Thompson is reviewed by Joshua Wretzel.


1000-Word Philosophy

  1. Agnosticism about God’s Existenceby Sylwia Wilczewska.
  2. Theories of Moral Considerability: Who and What Matters Morally? by Jonathan Spelman.
  3. Cultural Relativism: Do Cultural Norms Make Actions Right and Wrong? by Nathan Nobis.

Project Vox     ∅           

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media       ∅     

  1. The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Fifty Ideas by Robert Zaretsky is reviewed by Jacqueline Rose at The New York Review of Books.
  2. Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals by Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure is reviewed by Kwame Anthony Appiah at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  1. It’s thought that “publicly-oriented scientific disagreement… undermines trust in science [and that] emphasizing the uncertainty will mean anything goes, that scientists don’t know anything” — “And I wanted to push back against that,” says Zeynep Pamuk (UC San Diego)
  2. “Welcome to the minefield that is race humour” — Matthias Pauwels (North-West University) on the “extremely complex operation, involving many interlaced factors tricky negotiations” of ethical comedy about race
  3. You’ve probably read about the metaphysics of holes, but what about their aesthetics? — some art history of the hole, from Kim Beil (Stanford)
  4. Controversy over a proposal to add a statue of 17th-century philosopher Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia to a monument with 78 statues of men — in Padua, Italy
  5. “To appreciate the ingenuity of Locke’s philosophical views, I think it is important that we resist the tendency to apply common metaphysical classifications” — Ruth Boeker (UCD) interviewed about her work on Locke, personal identity, mind, and more, at 3:16AM
  6. Video resources on Stoicism — a collection curated by Gregory Sadler (MIAD)
  7. Free logician-themed 2022 wall calendar w/ Hamkins, Turing, Haack, Manzano, Rayo, Stebbing, & Williamson — from LógicaMX, with art by María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz and concept by Alejandro Estrada-Giron and Moises Macias-Bustos

Science Blogs: “Google Labs just released a new “experiment” – Body Browser. You have to upgrade to Google Chrome beta if you don’t already have it, but when you do, you can play with a 3-D, rotatable reconstruction of a (female) human body. Sliders let you fade the circulatory, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems in and out over the body organs; you can toggle labels on and off, and you can zoom, spin, and rotate in a way that would only be cooler if it were on a touchscreen iPad…But by far the coolest function is the search box (It’s Google – of course it has one!) As you type in the box, it guesses what you mean and zooms all over the body from structure to structure, which can be quite amusing. When you finish, it will have zoomed you in on your structure of choice, while fading everything else out. Coolest anatomy learning tool ever? Well, maybe not, but I still wish I had this back when I was teaching anatomy! Sadly, it doesn’t go down to cellular resolution – typing in “islets of langerhans” will get you nowhere, and it doesn’t handle brain anatomy very well. There are a few structures missing – sesamoid bones, for example – as well as anything male. I assume they’ll add a male version later – and who knows, maybe they’ll let you zoom down to cells eventually. Until they do, it’s not truly a “Google Earth for the human body”. But it’s still pretty darn cool…”