What Are You Reading…On Ethology
This summer I had the pleasure of reading a book by Frans De Waal entitled Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals...
Early Career Research Spotlight: John Garner
This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of John V. Garner. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at...
What Are You Reading…On Irony
In preparing for class this week, I reviewed Rousseau’s Discourse on Origin of Inequality, otherwise known as the Second Discourse. For the first time,...
Climate Change and Our Relationship to the Environment
We live in two ages. The first is the Anthropocene, where human activity is the primary catalyst of climate change, and concerns for human...
Do You Get the “Tingles”? The Philosophy of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
In April 2013 I diagnosed myself with a weird neuropsychological condition after listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts, This American...
What Are You Reading…On Discovery
Since arriving in Fond du Lac, I have been exploring my new setting in my spare time to try and learn more about the...
What Are You Reading…On Diplomacy
President Obama is on what will likely be his last tour of Asia as President. Most recently, this has taken him to China for...
Taking Employment Seriously: Amending Rawls’s Theory of Justice
By Larry Udell
John Rawls commented in A Theory of Justice that a just society will ensure “full employment in the sense that anyone who...
What Are You Reading…On the Ontology of Moving
Since composing the last What Are You Reading? column, I have moved across several states to my new job at Marian University in Fond...
Early Career Research Spotlight: Kristen Irwin
This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of Kristen Irwin. She is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola...