Author: Huenemann

Time is running out to become a 2010 member of Phi Sigma Tau, the Philosophy honor society. Check out the “Honor society” tab, and let Huenemann know if you are ready to commit!

Here is an interesting short essay on the subject by Brian Leiter, with a good number of thoughtful, substantive replies.

Jonathan Dancy on the Late Late Show.

… is interviewed on the Late Late Show here. It’s pretty funny. And what’s more, her father-in-law, the philosopher Jonathan Dancy, apparently will be interviewed on the same show tonight, following Letterman. Don’t miss it!

[from Brian Leiter’s blog.]

A philosophy student sent me a link to this article describing an experiment which seems to indicate that a magnetic field put in the right spot messes with one’s moral reasoning: “A person’s moral judgments can be changed almost instantly by delivering a magnetic pulse to an area of the brain near the right ear.”