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Co-authored with Peter Singer, ' Pandemic ethics: The case for experiments on human volunteers ' was published online yesterday in ...

Welcome to the 170th Philosophers' Carnival , a round-up of recent philosophical blog posts from around the web.

Welcome to the 140th edition of the Philosophers' Carnival , a 3-weekly roundup of some of the best philosophical blogging from around t...

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Holden at GiveWell has posted a very interesting analysis of Why We Can’t Take Expected Value Estimates Literally . I've always been sus...

Welcome to the 125th Philosophers' Carnival -- a three-weekly roundup of philosophy blog posts from around the web.

Welcome to the 103rd Philosophers' Carnival : a round-up of recent philosophical blog posts from around the web.

Welcome to the 93rd Philosophers' Carnival ! A new blog, 'Rational Imperative', introduces itself and what the contributors see ...

Welcome to the 82nd Philosophers' Carnival -- a collection of some of the best recent philosophical blog posts from around the web. Mor...

Hi, and welcome to the 65th edition of the Philosophers' Carnival - a fortnightly roundup of some of the best philosophical blog posts ...

Democracy is only as good ( or as bad ) as the demos . Cf. Matthew Yglesias : If you have the relevant social conditions to support good gov...

Interesting post from Mark Rowlands at Secular Philosophy : To a considerable extent it is society that has decided what is and what is not ...

Gender, Race and Philosophy (via feminist philosophers ). Their first post is about Obama and deliberative democracy . Very cool.

Crooked Timber invites nominations for the five best blog posts ever . The following spring to mind: (1) Hilzoy's ' Hatred is a Poi...

Welcome to the 52nd edition of the Philosophers' Carnival ! If you have no idea what this is, follow the previous link. Otherwise, follo...

[ Quote ] If you believe that such authority-based religious education is acceptable, then let me leave you with a question. Suppose authori...

Eliezer Yudkowsky : Rationality is not for winning debates, it is for deciding which side to join. If you've already decided which side...

'I don't mean this to be some sort of "I was right" triumphalism. What interests me is not so much who was right and who w...

- The fourth humanist symposium is here . - Michael Cholbi starts a new blog on teaching philosophy: In Socrates' Wake . - One Good Thin...

- Brandon discusses " value cocktails ". Is 'democracy' equivocal, "a label for a mixture of different values", ...