UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice! This week, my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy was published in a special, open access issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, titled P…

BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria on billionaire philanthropy, philosophy, academic freedom, and ableism.

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On Being Seriously Funny (guest post) - Daily Nous "I got into philosophy at least partly because it was comic and that’s still much of what I enjoy about it." Helena de Bres is professor of philosophy at Wellesley College. In the following guest post...

"In our discipline’s founding act of slapstick, Thales fell into a well because he was too busy staring at the sky, but the rest of us do it less conspicuously every weekday..." Helena de Bres on philosophy and the comic...

Bioethics friends! Do you have any suggested readings (for myself, mainly, but also ones appropriate for undergraduate readers) on the topic of trauma-informed care? Many thanks!

There is another theme in this essay that I didn't want to get lost. Immigrant lives were extremely difficult, but they were not impossible. Refugees could have gotten legal status and not-enough welfare.

Over the last decades, borders have hardened almost everywhere in "the West".

Ontario supervised consumption sites can remain open as judge grants reprieve, citing ‘significant harm’ of closures Injunction says sites can be open past the April 1 deadline, including the site in Toronto’s Kensington Market that launched the Charter challenge.

#Breaking: Ontario supervised consumption sites can remain open as judge grants reprieve, citing ‘significant harm’ of closures

Measles top Page One.

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Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny He is instilling fear not just among lawmakers but every sector of society that dares to criticize him or hold him accountable

Larry Diamond, @larrydiamond.bsky.social , a longstanding leader in the political science study of democracy, at @theunpopulist.net

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Thinking about the philosophy of gender identity today, so thought I’d re-share this accessible paper I wrote about it for MIND.

Trump administration threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law

In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL

“The most powerful message may be the simplest one— routine vaccinations are just that: routine. Nearly all children receive them, & millions have benefited by being spared painful diseases & death. Leaders who undermine this basic tool may find themselves on the wrong side of both science & voters”

While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous “There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’ Aside from the emotional wounds we inflict on actual peopl...

"It is a common assumption in philosophy that absolutely everything is up for grabs... there is something right about that. What I am now inclined to doubt, however, is that... any one philosopher can [ethically] open a critical challenge to absolutely anything..."

The Teaching of Writing in the AI Era - Daily Nous “Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition that seems doomed to defeat. Perhaps the time has come,...

"A pedagogical future of thousands of hours analysing the semantic output of uneducable robots sounds like a particularly sadistic existentialist hell."

"PHO (Public Health Ontario) said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus". Measles cases have continued to rise globally post-COVID and poses a threat to #publichealth

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What happens when the two year funding period ends? I doubt the housing and affordability crisis, along with lack of funds from social services like ODSP/OW, will be solved. Without systemic and institutional change, can we justifiably end these kinds of 'temporary' shelter programs?

'Anything we ask for — they (staff) go above and beyond': 47 people are living in modular cabins in Peterborough's Rehill lot Three months after the 50 modular cabins for people without homes opened in the city’s Rehill parking lot, one resident says, “It’s beautiful here — we get treated very well.”

Are modular homes a step in the right direction, in terms of addressing the housing crisis and homelessness? Certainly, they seem better for people than tents. But city council says this is a "temporary measure"...

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Hello Bluesky folks! I thought I would try this out, since I miss the philosophy community that was on Twitter. I was on Twitter some time ago under the same handle and mostly (re-)post about things related to feminist philosophy, bioethics, politics, etc. 🙂