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American Philosophy: October 2006

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Philosophy in the American Context. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Code, Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich. A quick story to relate, then out of town for a few days. Several weeks ago we read Lorraine Code's "Taking Subjectivity Into Account" in my epistemology class. The reception, to put it nicely, was frosty. Many students took exception to her claim that mainstream epistemology represents the biases of wealthy white males (which is pretty much the wording she uses). Then a couple of weeks ago we read this.

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American Philosophy: January 2007

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Philosophy in the American Context. Wednesday, January 17, 2007. What Makes a "Good" Philosophy Department? The New York Times had an article. About the Philosophical Gourmet Report. It focuses primarily on Rutgers' high ranking which, I suppose, might surprise some people who are more familiar thinking of Rutgers as New Jersey's state university. (People at my high school in New Jersey would always say, condescendingly, about Rutgers "Oh, that's a good. To this as follows:. I'm not quite sure what Stuhr...

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American Philosophy: February 2007

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Philosophy in the American Context. Sunday, February 18, 2007. I've been thinking more about rankings after reading some comments on Berit Brogaard's blog. One question is whether there's an alternative to the Leiter Report. Now, some people do love the Leiter Report, but others find it hopelessly biased. Here's some food for thought. I hadn't heard of this Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. So what are the highest ranking philosophy departments? 6 UC San Diego. 9 SUNY Stony Brook. This is a new gener...

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Ethics Beyond Compliance: The High Cost of Occupation: The High Cost of Injustice

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Friday, November 18, 2011. The High Cost of Occupation: The High Cost of Injustice. According to various reports. Is a good use of money, but policing protests takes a few pennies either way. Which brings us to the final point. The purpose of protests is to make the cost, financial and otherwise, of injustice greater than the price of justice. Labels: abuse of authority. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog moved to Wordpress. I paid you back, so whats the problem? Tea Party Fights Corporate Abuse.

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Ethics Beyond Compliance: October 2007

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Monday, October 8, 2007. The Value of Simplicity. Be to become a better person rather than a more relaxed person. A feeling of calm can help one see reality with greater clarity, but calm in itself is not the end goal of meditation. Right thought is necessary to produce right action, and right action is driven by compassion for all that suffer, which is to say all that live. Another Quaker, Richard Gregg, was equally clear on the value of simplicity in 1936. He said:. A 2001 New York Times article. At Tu...

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Ethics Beyond Compliance: February 2009

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Friday, February 13, 2009. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. The presenter I saw began by mentioning Siddhartha. He said, correctly, that there were four noble truths, but he did not mention what the first three were (they have to do with life as suffering or sorrow, the causes of sorrow, and the extinction of sorrow). The fourth truth is Siddhartha's dharma. Or teaching of "the way." The word " dharma. So long as we do, life, which is sorrow itself, will continue. Links to this post.

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Ethics Beyond Compliance: August 2009

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Friday, August 28, 2009. Hume on Circumstances of Justice. When I read Hume, I am never disappointed. With a little guidance from Martha Nussbaum, today I found this passage in Hume:. It may happen, in some countries, at some periods, that there be established a property in water, none in land; if the latter be in greater abundance than can be used by the inhabitants, and the former be found, with difficulty, and in very small quantities.". Links to this post. Friday, August 14, 2009. Learning every deta...

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Ethics Beyond Compliance: June 2008

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Thursday, June 26, 2008. Genetics and the Alterable Course Toward Fascism. Genetics and the Alterable Course Toward Fascism. Given that theories of heritability arose before eugenic plans and that those eugenics plans preceded fascism, it is easy to understand why some would infer that hereditary thinking in Western cultural settings may have caused both the eugenics programs and the fascist movements that followed. On the face of it, of course, this is a clear example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc.

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Ethics Beyond Compliance: November 2011

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Friday, November 25, 2011. Blog moved to Wordpress. This blog has moved to ethicsbeyondcompliance.com. Links to this post. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. I paid you back, so what's the problem? One of the most common chants at Occupy Wall Street protests is, “Banks got bailed out; we got sold out.” Critics of OWS ( Erin Burnett. Of CNN, for example) have been quick to point out that the banks paid back the bailout money they received, and they expect we will find this to make things all right again. We ar...