Posted in Action Theory, Epistemology, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, General Interest, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Race and Gender, Social Philosophy on August 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Interesting stuff right here.
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JJ at Feminist Philosophers posted a recent case of a child who appears to have had little social contact for the first five or six years of her life. As JJ notes, feral children, while thankfully rare, are interesting to theorists for a variety of reasons. Questions about the nature of language, human capacity for [...]
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Martha Nussbaum wants to know.
UPDATE: For more on religion and political philosophy, click here for a video lecture by Nussbaum entitled, “Equal Respect for Conscience: The Roots of a Moral and Legal Tradition.”
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And you thought translating German was hard!
According to this article, the title of this post is a single Oneida word that means, “the two of them went around to the other side of the altar again.”
The word is formed, according to linguist Cliff Abbot, by “add[ing] nine prefixes to the simple root verb “-tase-“, which [...]
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That’s a quote from United States vs. Lucero (1869). As is this:
“The idea that a handful of wild, half-naked, thieving, plundering, murdering savages should be dignified with the sovereign attributes of nations, enter into solemn treaties, and claim a country five hundred miles wide by one thousand miles long as theirs in fee simple, because [...]
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I’ve mentioned boarding schools* before with regard to forced assimilation policies.
The Canadian Government is issuing compensation to survivors of the schools. As I’ve noted, many of the people who went to those school experienced atrocious abuses. Survivors are eligible for additional compensation on top of what’s called a collective experience sum if they experienced exceptionally [...]
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Here’s an issue going on right now that’s relevant to my sporadic ongoing series on American Indian political issues.
You can listen to this recent broadcast of Native America Calling to get a sense of the issues. (And there are many: tribal borders, jurisdiction, and environmental impacts, to name a few.)
From the Native America Calling website:
More [...]
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Posted in Ethics, Interviews on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a nice interview with Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (UNC-Chapel Hill).
(HT: Pea Soup)
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Via the wonderful SWIP-L list, I’m informed of a new collection of essays called Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (Eds. Pogge and Horton). Here’s a blurb from the publisher:
In recent decades, there has been an explosion of interest in global ethics — the study of ethical issues with significant global dimensions. This book, a companion volume [...]
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Here’s a link to an interview with Martha Nussbaum about her recent book Liberty of Conscience.
(Hat Tip!)
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Off blog obligations have kept me from writing about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples here. But fear not, dear readers! I shall not miss the opportunity to pass along this article discussing the new era of indigenous rights.
Here’s a snippet:
Over the past 30 years, indigenous peoples around the world have expressed greater [...]
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Recent debates in ethics and moral psychology have attempted to call into question the foundations of virtue theory by using empirical research from the social sciences. The situationists claim that virtue theory is empirically inadequate because although people’s behavior can be consistent in similar situations, it is often not consistent across different types of situations. [...]
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Last night, on the eve of Saint Valentine’s Day, I had the pleasure of attending a colloquium featuring the distinguished professor William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania). He visited the University of North Florida and gave a guest lecture on the “Desires of the Dying: Japanese Qualms about the Bioethics of our Time”.
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We are very pleased to announce that Chloe Taylor (Ph.D., Toronto; Post-Doc McGill) will be joining the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at UNF next fall. Professor Taylor’s research interests are in social and political philosophy, more generally, and in the areas of 20th century French philosophy as well as race and gender, more specifically. [...]
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All of the commentary on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples I have read says that the Declaration creates no new rights. For now, I’m going to assume that’s true.
What does the Declaration do then, if not create new rights? Well, it affirms that rights that exist elsewhere (like in other UN documents [...]
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In comments, I mentioned the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the United Nations this past September. For those unfamiliar with a document of this sort, it is not legally binding but sets a minimum standard that States should aim at and could be the foundation for future law.
The Declaration [...]
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I know what you’ve been thinking. You’ve been staying up at night tossing and turning, wondering to yourself, “What is a reserved right in a treaty?”
Well, say goodbye to sleepless nights for I shall tell you what a reserved right is. Not only will you then be able to sleep, you will also understand why [...]
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Last week I blogged about the Lakota Freedom Delegation’s attempt at treaty withdrawal. This week I thought I’d blog about why treaties are important to native people.
Most people know that treaties are important to American Indians—somehow. Most people also know the stories of how the US has failed throughout the years to honor treaty obligations [...]
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January 9th marked Simone de Beauvoir’s 100th birthday.
(HT: SWIP-List)
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Today, December 29, is the anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. As Tim Giago reports, in an article earlier this month:
December 29, 2007 will mark the 117th anniversary of the slaughter of innocents at Wounded Knee. As is their custom, the Lakota people will gather at the mass grave where the bodies of men, women [...]
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Posted in Ethics, General Interest on December 26, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Reading Susan Wolf’s paper, Moral Saints,[i] there seems to be a prevailing attitude of hostility towards those who would seek to be such. From the beginning, she allows that she is “glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them.” Six times Susan Wolf describes moral saints as “unattractive.”[ii] [...]
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Posted in Ethics, Moral Psychology on November 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here is an interesting post on the relationship between “emotions and moral decision making.”
Maybe this explains why I could never quite get Utilitarianism…
~Q
UPDATE (11/08/2007): Moving to the front from earlier this week. The SUNY-Buffalo blog — the source of the post — has moved recently. We’ve updated the link. Check it out.
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While searching for something related to research on Bernard Williams, I got sidetracked by this interview with Martha Nussbaum (from last year, Sept 2006) that I hadn’t seen before. I thought I’d link it here for those who are interested; it has a transcript and webcast.
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The Florida Student Philosophy Blog warmly welcomes Kate Lindemann to the blog to chat about her new website, Women-Philosophers.com.
FSPB: Hi, Kate, welcome to the blog!
You have just launched a website called Women-Philosophers.com. What exactly is the idea behind it? What, in other words, is the website about and what information can be found there?
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Yesterday the UNF Ethics Bowl team visited UF and had a scrimmage with their team. The event went really well (once we arrived). I hope the practice session was as beneficial for the UF team as I think it was for our team.
Thanks very much to Dr. Fisher for investing the time and [...]
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