Elizabeth Barnes on
What it’s Like to be a Philosopher

The conversation is wide-ranging, but here is an excellent (I think!) response to a pressing question in the profession: Why is there so little diversity in philosophy?  I suspect the answer to this is incredibly complex and multi-dimensional. But at … Continue reading

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“Philosophy saved me from poverty and drugs:
That’s why I teach it to kids”

Largely because of the access I had to philosophy, I was brought safely away from the edge of the abyss that my life teetered above. But is my story just an anomaly? Is it or yet another tale of social … Continue reading

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A new generation of feminists are calling on popular feminism to adopt the rhetoric of action over identity

As Director of the SIUE Women’s Studies program, I am fortunate to come into contact with young feminists with a wide variety of ideas about what feminism means to them, and the shape it should take to be most effective. … Continue reading

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Guns versus Dildos: The Ultimate Texas Showdown

Here in Texas, everyone is up in arms (pun intended) about the new campus carry law, which, starting August 2016, will allow persons with a concealed handgun permit to carry their concealed handgun onto college campuses and, pending university policies, … Continue reading

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IJFAB 8.2, Special Issue Just Food, Now Available!

You can find the table of contents at Project Muse. Editor Mary C. Rawlinson’s introduction, Administer the prescription with any sildenafil generic from canada natural liquid as it is an all-inclusive dissolvable. However, there http://opacc.cv/opacc/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/.._documentos_auditores_Modelo%2038.pdf levitra generika are none of … Continue reading

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CFP: 10th Anniversary Issue

CALL FOR PAPERS IJFAB: Vol. 10, No. 1: 10th Anniversary Issue IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences, or to the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. For … Continue reading

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Alice Dreger Resigns in Protest Over Academic Freedom

A real loss for Northwestern, though one can’t say they didn’t provoke it. Find the story at the Chronicle. You can obtain the “Bad Girls” issue of Atrium here. … Continue reading

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“The moral naivete of ethics by numbers”

Susan Dwyer (University of Maryland): What do bioethicists do? According to a recent Boston Globe op-ed by the Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, they needlessly get in the way of saving and improving human lives by throwing up ethical red tape and slowing … Continue reading

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The Influence of the Catholic Church on Public Argentinean Universities After Pope Francis

Guest Post by Julieta Arosteguy (FLACSO) In August of last year, after teaching my first and only bioethics class of the semester, I was fired from my teaching position at the National University of San Martín (Argentina). I was told by the … Continue reading

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CFP: The Moral Psychology of Regret

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS Series Title: Moral Psychology of Emotions Series Editor:  Mark Alfano  Publisher:  Rowman & Littlefield International Volume: The Moral Psychology of Regret Volume Editor:  Anna Gotlib Proposals are sought for chapters in a volume entitled The Moral Psychology of Regret, which … Continue reading

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For those of you preparing fall classes

the APA committee on inclusiveness in the profession offers this collection of sample syllabi, including some on feminist philosophy and bioethics, as well as others There are no warning signs when it comes online levitra canada to assurance and self … Continue reading

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CFP: “Feminist Phenomenology, Medicine, Bioethics, and Health”

CALL FOR PAPERS  IJFAB Special Issue 11.2: “Feminist Phenomenology, Medicine, Bioethics, and Health” Guest Editor Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville) Lauren.Freeman@louisville.edu Although by no means mainstream, phenomenological approaches to bioethics and philosophy of medicine are no longer novel. Such approaches take … Continue reading

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