Author: Huenemann

… is here. Many of the posts concern Sam Harris’s new book, The Moral Landscape. USU SHAFT gets a shout out: the editor of the Carnival draws attention to a “flurry of excited discussion between Jon Adams, Kleiner, Huenemann, Source, Ben and Hunt back in March, on how Aristotelian and Thomist Harris’ thesis sounds, with some interesting summary of new versus old natural law theory.”

Stance is looking for undergraduates to review the work of other undergraduates, and offer a recommendation as to whether the work should be published in their journal. Get more info here.

There’s a good essay in Prospect covering the trolley problem in philosophy, and variations. For better or worse, every philosophy student should be aware of it as a thought experiment. It will alter how you look at other people as you wait for the train to arrive….

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The article by Galen Strawson, together with the suicide note of Mitchell Heisman, caused me to write a longer reflection about why I want to continue to be. Read it here, if you like.