How can Earth system science reach us personally? It involves time frames and complexity that challenge ordinary imagination and exceed the scales of our existence. The history of life is the history of mass extinctions. These range over hundreds of millions of years predating the order of life as we know it. The data used to assemble some concept of the deep past and of planetary systems involves imperceptible, cumulative changes over vast spatial and temporal scales that appear clearly ...| Department of Philosophy
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Dana Tulodziecki, Purdue University September 27 at 3pm in Clark Hall 206 How do false theories enable scientific progress? One central question in philosophy of science is how to reconcile the success of science with the fact that many past scientific theories were radically false and have long been abandoned. In this talk, I examine the transition from miasmatic views of disease to germ views in Britain in the mid-1800s, and show that the miasma theory, even though it hardly had anythin...| Department of Philosophy
Professor Jeremy Bendik-Keymer describes anger’s moral core in “Student anger and the responsibility of universities”| Department of Philosophy
Some commentators have criticized Israel for causing what is claimed to be disproportionate harm to civilians in its military response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.| Department of Philosophy
The United Nations (U.N.) International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement visits the United States today from 24 April – 5 May 2023. One of the Expert Mechanism’s objectives during this visit is to “offer recommendations to support the Government’s efforts in combating structural and institutional racism, the excessive use of force, and other human rights violations by law enforcement and the criminal justice system a...| Department of Philosophy
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer discusses Martha Nussbaum’s “Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility”| Department of Philosophy
Professor Jessica Wolfendale was quoted in the Time article “Here Are the Implications of Prince Harry Saying That He Killed 25 Taliban Fighters”| Department of Philosophy
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The philosopher Ian Hacking famously suggested that philosophical theorizing on the| Department of Philosophy
Black Women, State Violence, and the Logic of the Narrative of ‘Mothers of the Movement’ February 16, 2022, 6pm Dr. Shaeeda Mensah Assistant Professor of Philosophy McDaniel College Dr. Mensah is an assistant professor of philosophy at McDaniel College. She earned a PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. fin sociology from Spelman College. Her areas of research specialization include black feminisms, social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, and feminis...| Department of Philosophy