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Skeptiblog: November 2014
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Friday, November 21, 2014. I've been thinking about the dilemma Siegel and Deven raise about whether justice or truth should be a philosopher's first love (in those at least hypothetical instances where they conflict). It occurs to me that, after all, people do epistemology, whereas epistemology does not do people, and that this fact suggests a lexical ordering. Too flippant by half, of course, but I thought it was kind of clever. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Thursday, November 13, 2014. So one of the com...
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Skeptiblog: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. EE) Cutting Methane Emissions. Abby ran across this article on methane emission reduction and thought it would be good for class discussion if we all took a look at it. Http:/ www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/28/strategy-cut-methane-emissions? Utm source=twitter&utm medium=social&utm content=032814p1&utm campaign=climate. Friday, March 21, 2014. EE) A Heartening Graph. From the Environmental Defense Fund:. Monday, March 17, 2014. When we read the Bhagavad-Gita. Suggests a quotidian...
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Skeptiblog: (WR) Netiquette Reminder
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Monday, April 27, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So, what now? Welcome to Matt Silliman's Skeptiblog. Though all posts are open to all visitors, this semester's posts will mostly pertain to my current courses in Philosophical Dialogue (PD) and World Religions(WR). My most recent book. Bridges to Autonomy; Paradoxes in Teaching and Learning, by Matt Silliman and David Kenneth Johnson (click on book for more information). View my complete profile. David Johnson's daily phlog.
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Skeptiblog: (WR) Grading
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Friday, May 8, 2015. Thank you all for a stimulating semester. Over the next few days, I will be calculating final scores. After I post them, feel free to email me, politely, if you think there may be an error, or wish better to understand the evaluation process. Doing so within 30 days preserves your right to appeal the grade, in case my reply is unsatisfactory. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So, what now? Welcome to Matt Silliman's Skeptiblog. My most recent book. View my complete profile.
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Skeptiblog: (WR) Confucius' Way
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Monday, April 6, 2015. One or two of you balk in your blogs about the Confucian idea that there is only one path (rather than, as in Radhakrishnan, myriad paths that all eventually converge on one goal). But agreeing or disagreeing with Confucius about this is extremely premature. Until we fully understand the path he is recommending, we're in no position even to gauge whether we agree or not about its being the only legitimate one. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So, what now? My most recent book.
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Skeptiblog: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Suggestion for a Blogging Strategy. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Sophistry, and is that what we should expect of a teacher? Monday, September 22, 2014. Blogging our way to an education. Here's an article from yesterday's Times. That might be relevant to the thread about age and learning. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-delayed-adulthood.html. Saturday, September 13, 2014. But as we will see, Socrates also challenges the central content. Interest...
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Skeptiblog: April 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Our scheduled exam is 8 am Friday. Monday, April 27, 2015. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Here's the trailer to the Israeli film "Footnote." The film is extremely well done. Http:/ search.tb.ask.com/search/video.jhtml? Searchfor=footnote movie&cb=BNH&pg=GGmain&p2= BNH xdm132 YYA us&qid=45c5bd6430134f28ae90c6ac15b8c152&n=781b1715&ss=sub&pn=1&st=sb&ptb=B33FD3AA-5514-4006-9DBF-3635EE8CE903&tpr=&si=CD9606 16629761&vidOrd=1&vidId=3DjUwSr0VFo. Monday, April 6, 2015. We have not yet discus...
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Skeptiblog: May 2014
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Here is the opening of an essay in the current New Yorker. Magazine about enlisting corporate motives and incentives to reign in climate disruption. It nicely limns both the promise and some of the limitations of this approach. Http:/ www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa fact max? Utm source=tny&utm medium=email&utm campaign=weeklyemail&mbid=nl Weekly%20%2836%29. Monday, May 5, 2014. EE) A New Legal Strategy for the Climate. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). So, what now?
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Skeptiblog: February 2014
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014. In one of the MLK Gospel working groups from the other section, I overheard one student say that King was killed in Washington, DC. This is historically incorrect, as I'm sure most of you know, but it's worth noticing just what a brilliantly telling error it is - locating King's assassination at the heart of our nation's capital is false as history. And at the same time true as process. EE) Reviews of Kolbert's Sixth Extinction. Monday, February 24, 2014. Let's be sure to sp...
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Skeptiblog: (PD) Critique of Singer
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Monday, May 4, 2015. PD) Critique of Singer. I am tremendously surprised to hear that Gray is advocating for something akin to multicriterial value incrementalism, as from what Ive heard of him, he is notoriously reductivist and rejects free will. I would be interested in seeing how one would go about reconciling those views with the theory. I really should just get a subscription to the New York Review of Books for myself. May 7, 2015 at 5:24 PM. And yes, perhaps you need your own subscription.
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