What makes us dance? It really is all about that bass NPR
Obeid - Asfour: ‘Sale of the century’: The $1 deal and the mayor who knew nothing
Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It The New Yorker [subscription req’d]: “The idea behind solar geoengineering is essentially to mimic what happens when volcanoes push particles into the atmosphere; a large eruption, such as that of Mt. Pinatubo, in the Philippines, in 1992, can measurably cool the world for a year or two.
This scheme, not surprisingly, has few public advocates, and even among those who want to see it studied the inference has been that it would not actually be implemented for decades. “I’m not saying they’ll do it tomorrow,” Dan Schrag, the director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, who serves on the advisory board of a geoengineering-research project based at the university, told my colleague Elizabeth Kolbert for “Under a White Sky,” her excellent book on technical efforts to repair environmental damage, published last year. “I feel like we might have thirty years,” he said. It’s a number he repeated to me when we met in Cambridge this summer…”
Rawls on the Limits—and Limited Exposure—of Philosophy
“I have wanted to be a philosophy professor since I first took an Intro to Philosophy course my first semester of undergrad. I have worked tirelessly for 15 years toward this goal. There were so many times when I felt completely defeated, hopeless, on the verge of giving up. There were several occasions when it seemed clear to that it just wasn’t going to happen. I am elated that it has worked out.”
Five Years on the Philosophy Job Market
- Tiantai Buddhism by Brook Ziporyn.
- Isaac Polqar by Racheli Haliva.
- Alfred North Whitehead by Ronald Desmet and Andrew David Irvine.
- Mathematical Nominalism by James Henry Collin.
- Mechanisms and Consciousness: Integrating Phenomenology with Cognitive Science by Marek Pilropski is reviewed by Dave Ward.
- Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People by Neil Levy is reviewed by Alex Worsnip.
- Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation by Thomas Hill is reviewed by Jennifer K. Uleman.
- Karl Marx’s Theory of History by Angus Taylor.
- Meaning in Life: What Makes Our Lives Meaningful? By Matthew Pianalto.
Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media
- Imagining the End: Mourning and the Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear is reviewed by Daniel Oppenheimer at The Washington Post.
- Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya is reviewed by Jennifer Frey at The Wall Street Journal.
Compiled by Michael Glawson
BONUS: Problems of induction
Qatar bans beer at the World Cup (NYT).
Paris is banning e-scooters? Would the FDA approve them?
Future Fund and clawback issues with grants, noting that I see the risk of clawback as pretty low.
Podcast with John Ashmore about the British people and what they have done.
