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Syllabus Showcase: Death and Immortality, Heinrik Hellwig

...assistant for a Templeton grant on these topics some years ago. (It was called The Immortality Project, and it was led by John Martin Fischer (UC-Riverside). You can learn more...

Syllabus Showcase: Ethics in the Novel, Felicia Nimue Ackerman

...rely heavily on hypothetical situations, especially those that are what John Martin Fischer calls ‘streamlined,’ i.e, “schematized hypothetical scenarios in which only a few details are filled in, and all...

We Are All Here Now

When I was growing up in the sixties and seventies, I heard slogans, such as “Don’t trust anyone over thirty,” “Kill your parents,” “Be here now,” and others.  Then I...

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...research will eventually help him to figure out what mistakes he is now making in raising his children. John Kaag John Kaag is a Professor of Philosophy at the University...

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Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Nike’s “Dream Crazier,” A new brand of Self Objectification

...interpersonal self-objectification were reported by white and ethnic minority women (Moradi & Huang, 2008) as well as heterosexual and sexual minority women (Hill & Fischer, 2008; Kozee et al., 2007),...

David Foster Wallace and the Challenge of Fatalism

...the extended entry “fate and fatalism” authored by John Martin Fischer begins: “Fatalism can be understood as the doctrine that it is a logical or conceptual truth that agents are...

Philosophy Talk Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

...John Wallace – who was a PhD student of Davidson’s, while he was here at Stanford. John Perry was actually a friend of John’s and knew Jo Ann a bit...

What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher: Manuel Vargas

...at your Ph.D. institution, can play a big role in aiding and directing the shift to full professionalization. I benefited immensely from the efforts of John Martin Fischer and Eduardo...