[…] “Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world,” artist Egon Schiele wrote in contemplating why visionaries tend to come from the minority. Artists are so often those whom society paints as other by some hue of identity…
UPDATE 2: Professor Lassiter has agreed to keep an eye on changes at PhilJobs and provide an updated summary next week if warranted. PhilJobs’ “Appointments in Philosophy” lists 30 tenure-track, 7 fellowship, and 5 “other” placements for the 2020-21 job market…
Fans will be delighted at the show’s exploration of the universe’s lore and changing mechanics as the decaying Republic transitions into the grindingly oppressive Empire — it wastes little time diving into why the clones were replaced by Stormtroopers and…
Political Theory (by Samuel Bagg): Metaethics (by Jordan Walters) UPDATE: Some more… Wittgenstein (by @illocutie) Last week, Randall Munroe, author of the famed webcomic xkcd published a comic about “Types of Scientific Paper“: Analytic Feminism (by Matthew J. Cull) I couldn’t not do…
Last week, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas was declared the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award “Cultural Personality of the Year.” Over the weekend he announced he will not accept the award. The award is bestowed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)…
Daniel Golson/Roadshow When an authorized phone is within about an arm’s reach of the car, the user is able to unlock the doors, tailgate or the charging door just by reaching out and grabbing a handle. This all happens automatically…
Five years after he first began using the term, Fitz Gerald half-answered. There were then, as there are now, several primary categories of clickbait. Let us call one of them Big Things. For a broader diameter of the cultural Venn…
The Jedi Temple Guards seen in The Clone Wars wield lightsaber pikes with twin yellow blades. These anonymous masked Jedi Knights protected the temple on Coruscant, but we know at least one of their number fell to the Dark Side…