Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous

FBI Conducted Potentially Millions of Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Data Wall Street Journal

Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous - The New York Times: “The United States is in the midst of a traffic fatality crisis. Nearly 39,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes on American roadways in 2020, the most since 2007. American roads have grown especially dangerous to nonoccupants of vehicles (that is, bicyclists and pedestrians). In 2011, 16 percent of traffic deaths were of nonoccupants; in 2020 it was 20 percent. The trends are a major reversal; from the 1970s until the late 2000s, deaths on American roadways of bicyclists, pedestrians and people in cars had steadily declined. There are a number of possible reasons for rising deaths — among them, many more of our cars are big and deadly S.U.V.s, states keep raising speed limits, ride-sharing vehicleshave made our roads more chaotic, and people drove much more recklessly during the pandemic. But while many cities and states and the federal government have unveiled plans to mitigate the horror, progress has been elusive…”

1. “The experience of the war shows us again and again that you cherish life, you value life, in the point of when it’s very close to death. At that point, you really understand what life means” — Ukrainian philosopher and journalist Volodymyr Yermolenko is interviewed by Ezra Klein (NYT)
2. “When authors gave a funnier title to a work they considered significant, they reaped the benefits of significantly higher citations” — details on a new study titled “If this title is funny, will you cite me?” (For humorously-titled philosophy articles, see this.)
3. A philosopher is collaborating with The Guardian to offer responses to children’s often strange, imaginative, and philosophical questions — Scott Hershovitz (Michigan) also recently authored the book “Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids”
4. The “categorical ambiguity” of the uncanny elicits a “metaphysical threat response” — David Livingstone Smith (New England) on the dehumanization of the disabled
5. “While genetic knowledge can provide a rich source of meaning in answering the question ‘Who am I?’, I don’t think it is either the only source or a necessary source” — Daniel Groll (Carleton) is interviewed on the moral and political aspects of genetic lineage in a magazine for people who’ve been separated from biological family
6. Gilbert Harman’s major contributions to philosophy — a collection of brief essays by several philosophers on the work of Professor Harman, who died last November
7. Mary Wollstonecraft returns to Newington Green — in the form of a stenciled spray-painted portrait near where she founded a girls’ school in 1784
8. The Metaphysics of Causation by J. Dmitri Gallow.

1. Rosa Luxemburg by Lea Ypi.
2. Rule-Following and Intentionalityby Alexander Miller and Olivia Sultanescu.

Revised: 

1. Disability: Definitions and Modelsby David Wasserman and Sean Aas.
2. Feminist Perspectives on Class and Work by Ann Ferguson, Rosemary Hennessy, and Mechthild Nagel.
3. Kant’s Social and Political Philosophy by Frederick Rauscher.

IEP    

1. Zeno’s Paradoxes by Bradley Dowden.

NDPR     

1. Essence and Existence by Bob Hale and Jessica Leech (eds.) is reviewed by Sam Cowling.
2. Kant’s Revolutionary Theory of Modality by Uygar Abaci is reviewed by Timothy Rosenkoetter.
3. Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism by Sven Nyholm is reviewed by Christoph Durt.
4. The Nature of Desert Claims: Rethinking What it Means to Get One’s Due by Kevin Kinghorn is reviewed by Spencer Case.
5. Metaphysical Disputation I. On the Nature of First Philosophy or Metaphysics by Francisco Suárez is reviewed by Jorge Secada.

1000-Word Philosophy     ∅       

Project Vox     ∅ 

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media   

1. A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication by Onora O’Neill is reviewed by Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Ed.
2. What Do Men Want? by Nina Power is reveiwed by Anna Katharina Schaffner at the Times Literary Supplement.
3. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan is reviewed by Maggie Doherty at The Nation.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: An argument for a liberal arts education.