Elmo
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Why? Aren't there many topics in philosophy that other people are interested in, but you are not? Seems to be a very normal aspect of the field.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Why? Aren't there many topics in philosophy that other people are interested in, but you are not? Seems to be a very normal aspect of the field.
although there are a few quirks in forallx Calgary, including translating sentences with "either... or" that sound really exclusive in English with a disjunction (inclusive or)
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
although there are a few quirks in forallx Calgary, including translating sentences with "either... or" that sound really exclusive in English with a disjunction (inclusive or)
I'm gonna write a paper about how the cognitive dissonance story was debunked but everyone continued to believe in it anyway!
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I'm gonna write a paper about how the cognitive dissonance story was debunked but everyone continued to believe in it anyway!
I don't teach medical ethics regularly, but the one time I taught it, I included the violinist paper, even though I personally don't like the paper at all, to a degree that makes it hard to teach it well. 'How to teach views you think are very weak' might be a related issue (that I should work on).
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I don't teach medical ethics regularly, but the one time I taught it, I included the violinist paper, even though I personally don't like the paper at all, to a degree that makes it hard to teach it well. 'How to teach views you think are very weak' might be a related issue (that I should work on).
I think this is a very real problem, and I don't have a great solution for it myself. I don't assign any Carnap in 100-level philosophy of science, but if a student later took another class and didn't know who Carnap is, I'd feel bad, I guess. Maybe including 'history of X' is a partial fix.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I think this is a very real problem, and I don't have a great solution for it myself. I don't assign any Carnap in 100-level philosophy of science, but if a student later took another class and didn't know who Carnap is, I'd feel bad, I guess. Maybe including 'history of X' is a partial fix.
It's easy to have only a vague (and pejorative) notion like that when so many appeals to 'pragmatism' just boil down to tactical shrugging.
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's easy to have only a vague (and pejorative) notion like that when so many appeals to 'pragmatism' just boil down to tactical shrugging.