Author: Huenemann

The Philosophers’ Carnival is an online gathering of philosophical essays from blogs around the world. It happens every three weeks, moving from hosting blog to hosting blog. (Read more here.) Usuphilosophy.com will be the host for the April 25th Carnival. Anyone can submit – one needn’t be a “professional” philosopher, or a professional anything – though of course there’s no guarantee that everything will be included. So, please, submit entries that have intrigued you, whether you wrote them or not! We will be reviewing submissions from now until the 23rd or so.

The Carnival will accept essays on all worthy topics, but let’s set a topic of special interest: whether neuroscience really explains mentality. Of course, there are lots of claims that it does, ranging from the silly to the revealing. But how much of this is mere hype, and how much is paradigm shift?

The latest issue is here. There are a number of links to essays on philosophy of religion, which should be of interest to a number of our students.

From Slate:

If recording and mechanical reproduction opened up the world of musical pluralism—of listening to other people’s music until you and they became other people yourselves—digital reproduction expanded that pluralism to the point where it reversed itself. You have all the world’s music on your iPod, in your earphones. Now it’s “other people’s music”—which should be very exciting to encounter—as played in cafes and stores that is the problem. In any public setting, it acquires a coercive aspect. The iPod is the thing you have to buy in order not to be defenseless against the increasingly sucky music played to make you buy things.

Just to remind you all of the events we have going on today and tomorrow – check the details in the information bar on the right.

Several students are rooting about for undergraduate philosophy journals to submit article to. Here’s one Philosophy Major Alex Fenech has pointed out to me. Their next deadline is April 10th.

Aporia is Dartmouth’s undergraduate journal of philosophy. We publish issues in the fall and spring of each year, and distribute our journal at 55 universities and colleges throughout the nation.

We are seeking submissions of distinguished student work for our spring issue. Our theme for the issue is personhood and humanism: what traits, if any, are uniquely and universally shared by all persons? What are the rights and responsibilities of persons? How should persons live, learn, and coexist?

Papers need not address the theme. Students of all majors are encouraged to submit any and all work of philosophical relevance. We are open to essays on Politics, Literature, History, Psychology, Sociology, etc. All submissions undergo our blind editing and peer-review process.

The deadline for submissions is April 10, 2011. Please email papers to Aporia@dartmouth.edu

Regards,
Aporia Editorial Staff