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I was visiting the web-page of the Philosophy Department at the University of Western Ontario, and noticed that they had an open call for papers for an upcoming graduate student conference on feminist philosophy (Sept. 18-20). The Keynote speaker is Alice MacLachlan (York University).
 Here is an excerpt of their description of the conference: “This conference aims [...]

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… is the title of tonight’s philosophy slam hosted by JU.  The presentation will be given by Dr. C.W. Dawson, Jr.,  of Bethune-Cookman College.  The slam begins at 7:30 and will be held at the London Bridge Pub, Downtown on the corner of Adams and Ocean.  For more information e-mail aaxelss@jacksonville.edu .

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…is the topic of the Global Studies Association of North America’s 2009 Conference. 
May 8th through the 10th.
Click here for more details.
Co-Sponsored by the Peace Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University.
Keynote Speakers include: Ginette Apollon (“Human Rights in Haiti”), Farshad Araghi (“The Global Food Crisis: Event or Conjecture?”), Stephen E. Bronner (“America and Darfur: Notes for a [...]

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Just stopping by the blog with some girl power to my sisters across the world to celebrate International Women’s Day. I hope each and every one of us get to live to see the day when women are no longer beaten, forced to bear children, battered, forced into prostitution, abused, discriminated against, held in slavery, [...]

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An interview at Philosophy Bites:
Testimonial injustice occurs when others fail to treat you seriously as a source of knowledge. In this interview Miranda Fricker, author of a recent book on the topic, explains this concept which lies at the intersection between epistemology and political philosophy.
This interview is from 2007, but I just found out about [...]

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A memorial notice can be found here.
Des Forges, born in Schenectady, New York, in 1942, began working on Rwanda as a student and dedicated her life and work to understanding the country, to exposing the serial abuses suffered by its people and helping to bring about change. She was best known for her award-winning account [...]

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Readers who have followed recent philosophical discussions on implicit bias and schema disruption (here, for example) may be interested in this study reported at The Situationist attempting to test whether having an African-American president has changed the way African-American students perform on tests, and whether it has enhanced their ability to overcome stereotype threats that [...]

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Here’s an AALS podcast on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This podcast has three speakers, Tim Coulter, Angelique Eaglewoman and G.W. Rice. While listening to the podcast, it’s helpful to look at the UN Declaration, as speakers refer to various articles in their discussions.
Tim Coulter discusses how the Declaration got started, why [...]

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At The Situationist. Here’s a snippet:
To be sure, King is most revered in some circles for quotations that are easily construed as dispositionist, such as: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by [...]

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An academic blogger, Female Science Professor, began blogging anonymously in 2006. Her blog postings have been collected in a book which might interest our readers who like reading and thinking about science, intersections of philosophy and science, the production of scientific knowledge and the workings of academia. Female Science Professor is, well, a female scientist [...]

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As many people prepare to eat holiday feasts and go shopping on Black Friday, over at the Utah State philosophy blog, Harrision Kleiner talks about Peter Singer’s argument on moral duties for helping the poor. And while Americans react to seeing Sarah Palin give an interview as a turkey is slaughtered behind her, Kleiner calls [...]

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In a historic year for native voters, one might wonder how the native vote affected the election. Here’s a report:
Despite an unprecedented outreach by president-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, some states with significant Indian populations safely sided with Republican John McCain on election day.
Indian voters have played a difference in close elections, especially [...]

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God bless the new President of the United States!
Now let us do all we can do to help him uphold his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States!  Let those of us who pray, pray for him, and let all of us ensure that he hears the voice of the American [...]

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Here’s an interesting discussion with Sally Haslanger (MIT).
(HT: Leiter)

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And don’t eat too much candy!

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The current issue of Philosophy Now marks the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir with several informative articles about her work.

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The Symposia in Race, Gender and Philosophy has a new symposium on Anne Eaton’s “A Sensible Anti-Porn Feminism” with commentary by Patrick D. Hopkins, Rae Langton, Ishani Maitra, Laurie Shrage. Check it out here (Spring no. 2).
Jender at Feminist Philosophers comments:
Eaton’s paper is an exceptionally careful exploration of what a sensible anti-porn feminism should look [...]

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As longtime readers know, I’ve been blogging about American Indian political issues here for almost a year now. Yet I have only just begun to scratch the surface. I take it as a given that these issues are relevant to folks working in political philosophy, ethics, and so forth. I also understand these issues aren’t [...]

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I thought it was time to finally put up some info on the Cobell Case. This case is called the largest class-action suit against the United States. And it is a pretty huge issue considering it is about the mismanagement of a whole lot of Indian money. It’s only right for someone blogging about American [...]

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Knobe and Appiah discuss identity politics.
(HT: Leiter)

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Here’s a lecture LaDuke gave last year (Sept, 2007) at UCF on climate change, sustainability and some of the things native communities are doing to create sustainable societies.

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Interesting stuff right here.

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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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A while back, I interviewed Professor Emerita Kate Lindemann about the website women-philosophers.com.
Professor Lindemann has added many new women philosophers to the website since that time and I encourage you to check out all the interesting information on the site.
There is also information about how to incorporate the work of women philosophers into your courses. [...]

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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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