She starts at Hopkins this fall. Lucy Allais, currently Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, will be taking up a position as professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.…
Aside from the beefed up friendship between the two entities, this new partnership also earns iRacing a special title: “Official simulation partner of NASCAR.” iRacing That should be a good thing for fans as they work to expand virtual racing…
Oh that humans might humbly receive and earnestly bear this mystery that fills the earth down to the smallest thing, and feel it as part of life’s travail, instead of taking it lightly. If they could only be respectful of…
We do this on the personal level — out of such selective memory and by such exquisite exclusion, we compose the narrative that is the psychological pillar of our identity. We do it on the cultural level — what we…
In facilitating that interaction, we might consider asking those who submit an essay whether they want to participate a research-matching test of one of these algorithms. If philosophers began to look at their conferences along the lines that Morrison, Merlo,…
[Andreas Gursky, “Bahrain I” (detail)] Can philosophers help improve transportation policy? Jonathan Badgley, an economist who works with the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) and who studied philosophy as an undergraduate, thinks so. He wrote in recently to share…
Discover the latest news and best reviews in smartphones and carriers from CNET’s mobile experts. Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats from New York, introduced the Deter Obnoxious, Nefarious,…
Turning a closet into a darkroom, Alice proceeded to teach herself the art of photography, taking meticulous process notes to refine her technique. Not yet out of her teens and already one of the most accomplished photographers in America, she…
Though the commission is mistaken in its own account of whether and why there has been an injustice, it is still possible that there was an injustice. After all, it’s certainly possible that having true things said about one may…
Despite this, the iPhone 11 camera is nothing to sneeze at: It has a Night Mode and an ultrawide-angle camera that can add extra detail in photos, along with a great video camera. (Here are the rumors we’ve heard about…
[…] Defining attention as “the function charged with giving the mind its structure and cohesion,” Ortega places it at the center of the experience of love: “Falling in love” is a phenomenon of attention. Nothing illustrates this contracting of the…
On my Tokyo Drift rewatch, immediately I realized it was this movie, the third theatrically but sixth chronologically, that really made me appreciate the series. Here we not only saw a film with legitimate development in a likable character, but…