Ignored Editor Departs PGR, Raising Questions About Its Leadership & How to Best Guide Prospective Philosophy Grad Students (updated)
Until a few days ago, I was under the impression that Wiley-Blackwell was negotiating with Professor…
7 questions and answers we have about Valve’s Steam Deck – CNET
Now playing: Watch this: Valve’s Steam Deck is a portable, handheld PC Valve Explore movies, games,…
What Happens When We Die
At that moment, there were 3,147,740,103,497,276,498,750,208,327 atoms in her body. Of her total mass, 63.7 percent…
New Site for Publicly Commenting on Philosophy Papers
You’ll see that, like every paper at PhilPapers and PhilArchive, this one has an ID. It…
Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022)
The African philosopher has good reason to study African folk thought. Africans are a much oppressed…
Golden Globes 2022: The full list of winners – CNET
You might have noticed the lack of fanfare around the Golden Globes this year. Netflix Saniyya…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope deployment complete as mirror unfolds – CNET
The unfolding of the primary mirror follows the setup of other elements of the billion telescope,…
What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
The enemies of art and of morals, the enemies that is of love, are the same:…
PayPal is considering launching its own cryptocoin, report says – CNET
Getty Images The company is just exploring the idea of releasing its own stablecoin, a cryptocurrency…
Hoek Wins 2021 Isaac Levi Prize
A pre-publication draft of the paper is here. Choices confront us with questions. How we act…
Reputational Ranking of Philosophy PhD Programs Updated
The Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), a ranking of philosophy PhD programs in the “English-speaking world,” has…
US trade agency bans imports of some Google devices in Sonos patent fight – CNET
Google’s patent battle with Sonos comes as the search giant faces intense scrutiny from federal and…
Your Suggestions, Please, and a Reminder
Second, please remember that if you or your department or school or organization or whatever have…
Theodore Kisiel (1930-2021)
Theodore Kisiel, professor emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, has died. Kisiel joined the faculty of Northern…
A big failed Russian rocket just came crashing back to Earth out of control – CNET
The odds are the remains of most space junk that re-enters will end up in the…
How Does Your University Count Double Majors?
Philosophy departments tend to rely on double-majors for enrollments. As Eric Schwitzgebel (Riverside) wrote in 2018:…
Verizon’s big 5G upgrade will enable high-speed home internet to reach nearly 20 million customers – CNET
Along with AT&T, Verizon had previously expected to flip the switch on C-band on Jan. 5,…
Banjo-Kazooie is coming to Nintendo Switch Online in January – CNET
One of the other free games Switch Online subscribers can download is Tetris 99, a battle…
Let Them Not Say: Krista Tippett Reads Jane Hirshfield’s Prayerful Poem of Promise to the Future
Let them not say: it was not spoken, not written.We spoke,we witnessed with voices and hands. LET…
Fraser Wins Sanders Epistemology Prize
The prize includes 00 and publication of the paper in Oxford Studies in Epistemology. The prize is…
Philosophy Journal Hosts Debate on “Jewish Influence”
Cofnas’s take on that issue is ultimately based on his claim that “Jews are overrepresented in…
Almost Nothing, yet Everything: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Poem Celebrating Water and the Wonder of Life
It has no shapebut can take any shape It has no color,but can be any color….
Harry Potter reunion: Biggest surprises from the 20th anniversary special – CNET
There’s a beautiful scene in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where the other…
Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past
Long before she became America’s preeminent philosopher, having arrived as a refugee, Hannah Arendt (October 14,…
Yellowstone’s finale won’t stream on Paramount Plus, sorry – CNET
Part of the reason is that licensing out titles can be a lucrative business. So far…
The Secret to Superhuman Strength: An Illustrated Meditation on the Life of the Body, the Death of the Self, and Our Search for Meaning
But there is something else, something subtler, about the allure of our historical heroes. We are…
2021 In Review
TECHNOLOGY …of 2021. TEACHING By way of some overall remarks on the year, well, the main…
Your orange cat isn’t any dumber than its feline friends: Busting cat-color myths – CNET
Video screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET “From a marketing standpoint, it kind of makes sense,” she…
Of Trees, Solitude, Love, Loss, and the Stubborn Symphony of Aliveness: The Best of Brain Pickings / The Marginalian 2021
From the Stoics to the snails, by way of music, matter, and the mind. By Maria…
Best iPhone 11 and 11 Pro cases for 2022 – CNET
iFace cases are hugely popular in Japan but aren’t so well known in the US. With…