By the way, the Squire Family Foundation, through the American Philosophical Association, is inviting teachers who are teaching philosophy or want to teach ...
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Students Get <b>Philosophical</b>
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Teaching the Net Generation
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Sharmila Pixy Ferris (William Patterson University) got a very warm reception for her presentation on teaching and learning with the "net generation," given at the the 2009 Lilly East Conference. She graciously allowed TP101 access to her slides.john.immerwahr@villanova.edu
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Jaded But Wise
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by Lawrence Klepp by William Desmond The third-century BC philosopher Diogenes the Cynic was, arguably, Western civilization's first Marx Brother. ...
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Q & A With Mark Van Roojen, a Philosophy Professor and Cabin Builder
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YOU STUDY PHILOSOPHY. HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO YOUR CABIN WORK? Well, part of the plan is to spend some time up there free of distraction to do some reading ...
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Mathematical and linguistic syntax: different brain areas
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Contra the suggestion of Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch that the hierarchical processing required for syntactical operations requires Broca's area, central to language, Friedrich and Friederici find MRI evidence that syntactic processing of abstract mathematical formulae involves mainly intraparietal and prefrontal regions:
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Evidence of Language Influencing Thought
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In recent years, though, advances in cognitive science have made it ... Boroditsky researches cognitive science and symbolic systems - thought and language. ...
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Cross-cultural differences in argumentation
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Richard Nisbett and his collaborators have carried out an extensive program of experimental cross-cultural psychology, mostly aimed at establishing differences between the ways of thinking of Easterners and Westerners.
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Happy Like God
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I teach philosophy for a living, so let me begin with a philosophical answer. For the philosophers of Antiquity, notably Aristotle, it was assumed that the ...
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A life in <b>philosophy</b>: Peter Singer
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"I teach it to my undergraduates every year," Elinor Mason, a philosophy lecturer at Edinburgh University, says. "When I ask them at the end who has had ...
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Philosophy pupils in at deep end
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Camden New Journal
INTELLECTUAL debate stopped momentarily at Eleanor Palmer Primary School last week when one philosopher, aged eight, demonstrated the nature of experience ...
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<b>Philosophy</b> major earns big accolade
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"A lot of philosophy of science is interested in parceling apart the language of science and saying 'Well, this is what you guys are talking about when ...
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Creative Commons and textbooks
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Anyone who has had to order textbooks for students knows how expensive they are. Here's something that I hope may end up a trend amongst academics: Creative Commons licensed texts. P.D.
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<b>Philosophy</b> Majors: Get a Job
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... stellar SAT scores, and ambition, they matriculated at some of the top colleges in the US, majoring in subjects like English, history, and philosophy. ...
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Philosopher Aseel al-Awadi One of First Four Women Elected to Parliament in Kuwait!
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Story here. Aseel took her PhD in philosophy at UT Austin, writing a dissertation with my former colleague A.P. Martinich. Kudos to Aseel and the others for their courage and ground-breaking victory!Brian Leiter
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'Free will' spot found in brain
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Lead scientist Angela Sirigu, a neuroscientist at the CNRS Cognitive Neuroscience Centre in Bron, say that the place lies towards the back of the brain ...
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No May JFP!
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From the APA:The National Office has not received a sufficient number of employment ads to warrant publishing a May 2009 issue of Jobs for Philosophers, No. 182. Therefore, there will not be a JFP print issue published in May. Web only ads (if any) will continue to be published on-line from May through the summer months.
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UL <b>Philosophy</b> Program Cut
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After meeting with the board, UL must do away with its philosophy program. Seven programs at UL were on the chopping block, including Athletic Training and ...
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Debasing the coinage of rational inquiry: a case study
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Leave it to the linguists to destroy press coverage of bad neuroscience. Wait. Shouldn't that be our job?
A little more than a week ago, our mass media warned us about a serious peril. "Scientists warn of Twitter dangers", said CNN on 4/14/2009:
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Five Philosophers Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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They are: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Daniel Hausman (Wisconsin), Philip Pettit (Princeton) (elected in the Political Science category), Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh), and Stephen Stich (Rutgers). A distinguished group; also nice to see various sins of omission being corrected.Brian Leiter
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Deep thinking: Children as young as five to be taught <b>philosophy</b> <b>...</b>
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Nestling alongside more traditional primary school activities such as storytime and colouring in, the Philosophy in Primary Schools programme is already ...
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