"I wanted to reach out" no. Look inward. Before reaching out, first reach within

cause this place is dead

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

Measles is a deadly disease. The invention of vaccines to prevent it was a hard-fought triumph of science and goodness. When people choose not to vaccinate their own children, not only are they being foolish and negligent, but they put others at risk.

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."

"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

#1243 Jeff McMahan: Antinatalism, Extinctionism, Gene Editing, and Overpopulation Podcast Episode · The Dissenter · April 20 · 1h 41m

McMahan on procreative and population ethics.

Injustice and Structural Wrong: Reply to Sankaran and Monaghan and to Collins | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3 This article defends my challenge to the influential idea that social structures can be wrong independently of individual wrongdoing. Responding to criticisms from Kirun Sankaran and Jake Monaghan and...

An ETHICS Discussion, with David Estlund defending his ETHICS article “What’s Unjust About Structural Injustice?” from recent Ethics replies to it in “Injustice and Structural Wrong: Reply to Sankaran and Monaghan and to Collins” at doi.org/10.1086/739646 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil

Ethics, Epistemology, and Engineering Workshop | Philosophy | College of Arts & Sciences | University of Delaware Deborah Johnson (UVA) and Zach Pirtle (fPET) will deliver a pair of keynote talks for the Ethics, Epistemology, and Engineering workshop hosted by the UD Center for Science, Ethics, and Public Policy ...

Next Friday, April 24 (4:15 to 7:15pm), the GPPC is sponsoring two keynote talks by Deborah Johnson and Zachary Pirtle that precede the April 25-26 workshop on Ethics Epistemology, and Engineering at the University of Delaware. Free and open to the public.

More info. via the link.

#philsky

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives thought that students should *only* be taught The Classics

Have you read the legislation? I don't think the quoted tweet is correct as there is a distinction between protesting an event and preventing its occurrence.

Tech billionaires saying UBI is coming is hilarious because c’mon, how have they acted the last 5 years in response to the prospect of higher taxes on the rich and corporations to fund social programs?

Nice harm. Let me guess, epistemic?

@udelphilosophy.bsky.social is home to an unbelievable number of events.

Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.

Any other Carls out there?

Tomorrow at @udelaware.bsky.social

"wrong book on the syllabus"? - wtf

From the Yale Report: “Faculty … worry that the wrong book on a syllabus or the wrong idea expressed on social media may damage their careers or get them fired. [They endure] pressures to conform to campus opinion, especially on matters involving race, gender, and sexuality.”

Gespass said Babb’s story changed from the original narrative he provided Gamble: that her costume was obscene. When Gamble turned away from Babb, she actually was complying with his orders, Gespass explained. “There is no basis to make an arrest if she was arguably complying with his demands,” he said. “I don’t think the officer was very good at de-escalation.” City prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued “no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.”

Everyone has this right. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Back at the dawn of the bronze age, I was a finalist for the job that MB got. I got a kick out of meeting JC even then.

spill . . . JC?

Green and Maroon, 1953 #americanart #rothko

On Saturday, April 18 the University of Delaware is hosting the 36th annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference featuring talks by students from Temple, Haverford, Swarthmore, Penn, St. Joseph’s, St. John’s, Georgia Southern, Rowan, Seton Hall, West Chester, Danville Area CC, and UD. The conference runs 10am-6:30pm in Gore Hall 116 and 103. There will be three sessions of student talks divided into parallel programs. Session 1 runs 10am-12pm, Session 2 runs 2:30-4pm, Session 3 runs 4:30-6:30pm. Carolina Sartorio (Rutgers) will deliver a keynote talk at 1pm. Attendance is free and open to the public. Keynote is titled "Responsibility for Consequences". Abstract: We seem to be morally responsible for some of the consequences of our actions just as much as for the actions themselves. Although the topic of responsibility for consequences has been quite extensively discussed in the literature on moral luck, the nature of the phenomenon itself has been under-analyzed. In this talk I first give the sketch of an account of responsibility for consequences. I then discuss implications of the account for some puzzle cases and for the problem of collective harms.

Reminder: On Saturday, April 18, the University of Delaware is hosting the 36th annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference w/ talks by students from 12 colleges/universities. Carolina Sartorio (Rutgers) will deliver a keynote. Attendance is free and open to the public. #philsky

planes

This is an insane policy on the part of TT.

A new prudential argument for pro-natalism.

France's antisemitism bill: a weapon against hate or threat to free speech? French lawmakers are preparing to vote on a government-backed bill that supporters say is needed to tackle evolving forms of antisemitism. Opponents argue it is in fact aimed at silencing criticism of…

France is considering a new bill that would expand its incitement to terror and glorification of terror offenses, as well as criminalize calls for the "destruction of a state recognised by the French Republic." That would included slogans like "from the river to the sea."