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CFP: Science-Policy Interactions & Social Values. April 13-14, 2012
Occurring at the University of Texas at Dallas: The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology seeks proposals for papers and symposia for a conference to wrap up our 2011-2012 public lecture series on Funded and Forbidden Knowledge: Science, Politics, … Continue reading
The CHE Review: “A New Philosophy for the 21st Century”
Just out at the Chronicle of Higher Education Reviw by Adam Briggle and me: We have devoted our lives to philosophy. We want the field to survive and, if possible, prosper. But it is increasingly doubtful that academic philosophy can … Continue reading
A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
… this post by CSID fellow David Taylor is continued from Part 1. In 1994, Jerome Rothenberg writes, “… a poetics without a concurrent ethnopoetics is stunted, partial, therefore faulty at a time like ours that can only save itself … Continue reading
A Primer on Field Philosophy
Our concept of field philosophy could use some elaboration. Our tack has been to define it in contrast with applied philosophy. We have, I think, made three points. First is the question of audience. Applied philosophy assumes a disciplinary audience–(applied) … Continue reading
David Taylor: A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
Part 1 of a new entry from CSID Fellow David Taylor. Susan Denning: “Can poetry change the world?” Gary Snyder: “Ha!” (“Can Poetry Change the World,” in Gary Snyder’s Back on the Fire) 7/24/11 I’m certainly not the first up … Continue reading
Slavoj Žižek on #Occupy as an Acephalic Movement
Ok, he didn’t use that term. But as he strikes many of the same notes I heard in Britt’s previous post, I’ve excerpted a bit from his essay in the Guardian this week (it’s worth reading in its entirety): What one … Continue reading
Interview With Economist Jerry Epstein | Truthout
Possibly instructive on how to leverage a new clearing for publicly engaged philosophy that is at home behind the walls of the academy and within the open spaces of the public common. What Are Economics for? Interview With Economist Jerry … Continue reading
Syracuse seeks to redefine quality education
Here’s a very interesting article about Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s effect on the reputation of Syracuse University. “It’s not that you stop caring about the fundamentals or quality, you redefine what constitutes quality and exciting scholarly work.” Syracuse’s Slide – Administration … Continue reading
Economist Paul Krugman Questions Economics
I’ve never liked the notion of talking about economic “science” — it’s much too raw and imperfect a discipline to be paired casually with things like chemistry or biology, and in general when someone talks about economics as a science … Continue reading
Having Fun & Doing Research
Where the human mind trumps the human created algorithm: …a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that “unfolds” the molecule and … Continue reading
Stepping into the Moral Terrains of an Other Environmental Identity
Robert Melchior Figueroa, philosopher—environmental justice studies–collaborator on the CSID funded interdisciplinary project on the Mesa Verde Story. Philosophers tend to approach their questions and subject matter from several angles. They have an area of study within a discipline that must … Continue reading
A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History: Part II
This post by David Taylor builds upon his previous one: “An expansionist imperialist culture feels most comfortable when it is able to believe that the people it is exploiting are somehow less than human. When it begins to get some … Continue reading
When is Analysis not Analysis?
Howard Kurtz, media critic at Daily Beast, has waded into some hot water with his article A Hurricane of Hype. In it, he lambastes television media for the relentless “tsunami of hype on this story [Hurricane Irene]… a Category 5 … Continue reading
AnimeFest & ID
Keith Brown (that is myself) will be representing CSID on two panels at this year’s Animefest in Dallas, TX. He is chairing a discussion on Anime & Philosophy as well as participating in a dialog on the Aesthetics of Anime. … Continue reading
The Revolution Will Not be Tweeted
The conventional wisdom that electronic media destabilizes authoritarian regimes is dead wrong, according to two papers recently published by political scientists at Yale and MIT. Through their 2009 study of the effects of West German television on East Germans able … Continue reading
The Privately Financed Public University
The Freedom Center, a new interdisciplinary center at the University of Arizona, is attracting some critical attention due to the notoriety of two of its donors, the Koch brothers (as well as the fact that another major donor is undisclosed). … Continue reading
Citizens Voice Opinions on Gas Drilling in Denton | North Texas Daily
About 75 Denton residents attended a public meeting to voice their opinions and concerns about gas drilling in front of the newly formed Citizens Task Force for gas well regulations. The Drilling Advisory Group (DAG) is partly the brainchild of … Continue reading
Times Higher Education – Get off your high horse
Get off your high horse Academics should back a case-study approach to impact in the REF [the UK's Research Excellence Framework] or risk getting far worse, says Claire Donovan For some, the old maxim that “a camel is a horse … Continue reading
Research Impact Metrics
Impact is a strong weapon for making an evidence-based case for enhanced research support but a state-of-the-art approach to measurement is needed Research impact may be a new feature of the Research Excellence Framework, but the research evaluation community has … Continue reading
A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
“Poets are more like mushrooms, or fungus—they can digest the symbol-detritus.” (Gary Snyder, “The Real Work”) “Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the … Continue reading
Synergy First: An Interdisciplinary Story
I am an archaeologist and an ecologist who specializes in studying modern animals and animal remains from prehistoric sites. I pursue my research and teaching interests at the University of North Texas in the Department of Geography, and … Continue reading
Google, ‘big data,’ & research availability
Google research chief pushes ‘big data’ : Nature News In 2008, Google retreated from Palimpsest, its project for hosting open science data. Why? I think we are still trying to figure out our role. It didn’t seem like there was … Continue reading
Google has an in-house philosopher?!?!?!
Coooooool! Waaay to gooo Goooogle! Damon Horowitz is currently in-house philosopher at Google. So says the brief bio-note attached to Horowitz’s unguarded confession in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education: “From Technologist to Philosopher.” For those of you who don’t have … Continue reading
This must have been painful
In 2009, the Observer (UK newspaper) was leaked a letter to the Queen from an accomplished group of London School of Economics economists explaining some of the factors that resulted in the failure of economists to detect the credit crisis, … Continue reading
Concern for Locale by Locals: Denton & Gas Fracking
City puts together panel on drilling | Denton Record Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas | Special Projects: Gas Well Drilling. CSID Fellow Adam Briggle quoted on the need to form a citizen task force to help in advising … Continue reading