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Month: October 2016

Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and the APA’s “Code of Conduct”

October 29, 2016 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Professional Academy, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues Comments Off on Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and the APA’s “Code of Conduct”

by Edward Kazarian and Leigh M. Johnson A little over two years ago, more than 600 philosophers petitioned the American Philosophical Association to “produce a code of conduct and a statement of professional ethics for the academic discipline of Philosophy.” The immediate motivation for the petition was several high-profile cases of sexual misconduct by philosophers, which…

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Sick Of This Sh*t: On Professional Philosophy’s Boiling Frogs

October 8, 2016 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Leiter, PGR, Philosophy, Politics, Professional Academy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues Comments Off on Sick Of This Sh*t: On Professional Philosophy’s Boiling Frogs

There’s an old anecdote about boiling frogs that is often employed by philosophers to explain the sorites paradox. If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, the story goes, it will immediately sense the heat and the danger, jump out of the pot, and be spared its life.  But if you put…

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