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Philosophy TV's first episode. Gendler and Schwitzgebel on implicit associations and belief.

We humans spend a remarkable amount of time, money, and energy to benefit others, including family, friends, and strangers. Why do we do it? Do we ever care about others for their sakes and not simply for our own? Is our ultimate goal always and exclusively self-benefit, or are we capable of caring about another person’s welfare as an ultimate goal? These questions are asking about the existence of altruistic motivation in humans.

Interesting discussion of experimental philosophy in the NY Times. The contributors: Knobe, Appiah, Maudlin, Williamson, Leiter, and Sosa.

Lewis Powell created this as a resource for Early Modern Historians

This is simply brilliant...

This about 2 weeks old, but the discussion thread is worth reading

It's job market season again, and I suspect we're in for another good round over at Philosophy Smoker

Looks like a nice list

A senior philosopher criticizes recent SEP entries...the discussion on this should be interesting...

A must read for anyone thinking about contemporary challenges to philosophical methodology

Referee asks an armchair philosopher to do an Xphi study. Raises a very good issue concerning what referees should be able to demand of authors.

Good discussion of a possible problem with current Xphi methods.

An interesting discussion about whether recent empirical results show that knowledge requires belief for ordinary folk ascriptions. Jason Stanley, Jeremy Fantl, and others join in the conversation in the thread.

Ralph Wedgwood argues for the interesting claim: "We would be much better off if we eliminated the term ‘evidence’ from fundamental epistemology entirely."

Agreed...