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Philosophers' Corner: Gender Bias in Academic Philosophy?
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Topics are arranged alphabetically in the INDEX. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Gender Bias in Academic Philosophy? This appeared in The Guardian. Only 25% of philosophy posts in UK universities are occupied by women. So what, if anything, should be done to redress the balance? Does philosophy have a problem with women? Mary Warnock, philosopher and writer. How can the balance be redressed? Seems to stop being interesting just when it starts to be professional. Julian Baggini, philosopher and writer. I have been...
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Just Genesis : Genesis on Homosex: Beyond Sodom
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JUST GENESIS through the lens of Anthropology. Saturday, January 26, 2013. Genesis on Homosex: Beyond Sodom. Alice C. Linsley. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) also contributed to a dismissal of the Hebrew Scriptures as "a collection of mere statutory laws upon which was established a political organization." In his Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone. Kant argued for a " pure moral religion" based on duty. N oddity in his time, he perpetuated the Enlightenment disdain for the Hebrew Scriptures. He i...
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Philosophers' Corner: August 2015
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Topics are arranged alphabetically in the INDEX. Thursday, August 20, 2015. The Dearth of Women in Philosophy. Martha Nussbaum in 2008. What is the explanation for this peculiarity, and should it be a matter of concern? Another of our teachers was blunter. “Women are no good at philosophy”, he told one of my female friends, who understandably left the field to forge a career as a distinguished journalist. Read it all here. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Philosophy Professors on "Irrational Man". 160;and Chris...
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Philosophers' Corner: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Reflections on America
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Topics are arranged alphabetically in the INDEX. Monday, July 6, 2015. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Reflections on America. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot."- Alexis de Tocqueville. Some readers of the text treat its author as a “ classical liberal. 8221; who loved parliamentary government and loathed the extremes of democracy. More often, the text is treated as a brilliant grand commentary on the decisive historical significance for old Europe of the rise of the new American republ...
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Philosophers' Corner: January 2015
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Topics are arranged alphabetically in the INDEX. Friday, January 30, 2015. Dreyfus on Metaphysics and Phenomenology. Hubert Dreyfus (age 85). Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests include phenomenology. And the philosophy of both psychology and literature, as well as the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence. Dreyfus is especially known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger. Here is an interview.
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Philosophers' Corner: September 2014
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Topics are arranged alphabetically in the INDEX. Saturday, September 27, 2014. Alice C. Linsley. Kierkegaard refers to biblical Abraham as a “knight of faith” and sees him as the embodiment of his existentialist philosophy. For Kierkegaard, true individuality comes through surrendering one’s individuality. Abraham discovers his meaning in the cosmos through losing himself in God, but when one tries to explain this to another person, the explanation seems absurd. 8221; In this statement, Kierkegaard expre...
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Just Genesis : Seligman's Legacy
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JUST GENESIS through the lens of Anthropology. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Seligman is at the center of a long-standing controversy. Some consider him a racist. What do you think? Alice C. Linsley. Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) was a British physician and ethnologist whose work influenced such renown anthropologists as Bronislaw Malinoski and Evans-Pritchard. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he served as chair of Ethnology at the London School of Economics from 1913 to 1934. Rather than Eu...
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Ethics Forum: What Makes a Good Society?
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Thinking about ethics and current events. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. What Makes a Good Society? There are numerous marks of a good society: justice, equity, rule of law, economic opportunity, reciprocity, prosperity, critical thinking, ethical standards, concern for good citizenship, right to defense, right to private property, etc. But where does the value of Goodness for Goodness sake come in? Alice C. Linsley. As Americans watch the political stalemate in Washington. The Founding Fathers spoke of a...
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Just Genesis : Afro-Asiatic Metal Workers
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JUST GENESIS through the lens of Anthropology. Saturday, June 18, 2011. Alice C. Linsley. Here are photos of related peoples whose ancestry is Kushite or Proto-Saharan. Both photos are of BJA people. Some Beja are nomadic. Linguist Penelope Aubin notes. In Demotic sources they are called Brhm while in classical sources they are the Blemmyes, ancestors of the modern Beja.". They brought gold to Egypt from mines deep in the heartland of Nubia and Kush. Prehistoric painting of warrior-priests carrying crook...
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Just Genesis : Facebook Conversation on Creationism
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JUST GENESIS through the lens of Anthropology. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Facebook Conversation on Creationism. Alice C. Linsley. In the following Facebook thread some friends asked excellent questions and I asked their permission to post this at JUST GENESIS. This is the sort of conversation that can help people sort through the issues. The conversation arose in response to this article. Everything is possible,. My brain is defective, and so my opinion is not an intellectual one. But I think it doesn'...
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