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Monday, August 12, 2024

How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption

 The attack affected online services of all major Russian banks, national payment systems, social networks and messengers, government resources, and dozens of other services…Carpet-Bombing Hack: #Ukraine’s Intelligence (#HUR) has completed one of the largest cyberattacks on Russia’s financial sector and government resources, Kyiv Post HUR sources reported.

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs


TechCrunch: “The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsofthave conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether. By tracking these layoffs, we’re able to understand the impact on innovation across companies large and small. We’re also able to see the potential impact of businesses embracing AI and automation for jobs that had previously been considered safe. It also serves as a reminder of the human impact of layoffs and what could be at stake in regards to increased innovation. Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the known layoffs in tech that have occurred in 2024, to be updated regularly.



  1. Yogācāra by Szilvia Szanyi.
  2. Biological Information by Marc Artiga.

Revised:

  1. Moral Skepticism by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
  2. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science by Elizabeth Anderson.
  3. Mechanisms in Science by Carl Craver, James Tabery, and Phyllis Illari.
  4. Immanuel Kant by Michael Rohlf.
  5. Theories of Meaning by Jeff Speaks.
  6. Practical Reason by R. Jay Wallace and Benjamin Kiesewetter.
  7. Kant and Hume on Causality by Graciela De Pierris and Michael Friedman.
  8. The Definition of Art by Thomas Adajian.
  9. John Niemeyer Findlay by Douglas Lackey.
  10. Samuel Clarke by Timothy Yenter and Ezio Vailati.
  11. Leibniz’s Philosophy of Physics by Jeffrey K. McDonough.
  12. Medieval Theories of Singular Termsby Julie Brumberg-Chaumont and E. Jennifer Ashworth.
  13. Plato’s Aesthetics by Nickolas Pappas.
  14. The Nonidentity Problem by M. A. Roberts.
  15. Ibn Kammūna by Tzvi Langermann.
  16. Self-Reference and Paradox by Thomas Bolander.
  17. Analysis by Michael Beaney and Thomas Raysmith.
  18. The Epsilon Calculus by Jeremy Avigad and Richard Zach.
  19. Nonconceptual Mental Content by José Bermúdez and Arnon Cahen.
  20. Justification Logic by Sergei Artemov, Melvin Fitting, and Thomas Studer.
  21. Future Contingents by Peter Øhrstrøm and Per Hasle.
  22. Discourse Representation Theory by Bart Geurts, David I. Beaver, and Emar Maier.
  23. Needs in Moral and Political Philosophy by Gillian Brock and David Miller.
  24. Sidney Hook by David Sidorsky and Robert Talisse.

IEP          

  1. The Cognitive Foundations and Epistemology of Arithmetic and Geometry by Markus Pantsar.           

NDPR     

  1. The History of Hylomorphism by David Charles (ed.) is reviewed by William M. R. Simpson.
  2. Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers by Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, and Andrea Roselli (eds.) is reviewed by Andrew L. McFarland.
  3. Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws by André Laks is reviewed by Rachana Kamtekar.
  4. Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being by Stephen E. Harris is reviewed by Jay Garfield.
  5. Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy by Peter Adamson is reviewed by Christina Van Dyke.

1000-Word Philosophy          

  1. Moral Education: Teaching Students to Become Better People by Dominik Balg.      

Project Vox        ∅     

BJPS Short Reads         ∅

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals            

  1. Scientific Epistemology by Hilary Kornblith is reviewed by Michael Bishop at The British Society for Philosophy of Science.

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media           

  1. Three translations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Michael Beaney, Alexander Booth, and Damion Searls are together reviewed by A. W. Moore at London Review of Books. 
  2. Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz is reviewed by Julian Baggini at Literary Review.
  3. Understanding Ignorance by Daniel DeNicola is reviewed by Joshua Rothman at The New Yorker.
  4. Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide by Samir Chopra is reviewed by Iina Jha at Redbrick.
  5. Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Jonathan I. Israel and Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah by Ian Buruma are reviewed by Enrique Krauze at Project Syndicate.
  6. The Afterlife of Data by Carl Ohman is reviewed by The Economist.
  7. Justice is Steady Work: A Conversation on Political Theory by Astrid Von Busekist and Michael Walzer is reviewed by Stephen de Wijze at Fathom.
  8. A Summer with Pascal by Antoine Compagnon (translated from French by Catherine Porter) is reviewed by Jonathan Egid at Literary Review.
  9. Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexander Lefebvre and Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler are reviewed by Peter Mares at Inside Story.
  10. Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction by Oliver Traldi is reviewed by Stephen Harrop at City Journal. 
  11. How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption by Daniel Bowls is reviewed by Rachel Lu at National Review.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Disagreement


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