Month: December 2015

Recruiting Philosophy Majors

One of my favorite things to do at the end of the semester involves sending emails to those particularly excellent students I had in class and trying to recruit them to the Philosophy major.  I don’t think I tell students often enough during the regular term that they’re doing good work, or that they have…

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Technology and Human Values

If this were a post on Buzzfeed or Upworthy or some other such listicle-driven site, the thumbnail caption would read: “You won’t BELIEVE the AMAZING things these COLLEGE STUDENTS did in their PHILOSOPHY class! Check it out!” That would be a 100% true description, but I will attempt to be more measured in what follows….

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Simply, Mark (In memory of Mark Behr, 1963-2015)

Simply, Mark In memory of Mark Behr (1963-2015) ——————————————- You, my friend, were not simple. You will remain ever in the memories of multitudes, in the strength and resilience of bruised and battered bodies and souls of the broken, but yet defiantly, proudly, unapologetically, uncompromisingly unbreakable. You will remain ever, also, the memory of a…

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