Rozena Maart (Kwa-Zulu Natal): Race and Pedagogical Practices: When Race Takes Center Stage in Philosophy. Nick Anderson on philosophy’s gender bias: For too long, scholars say, women have been ignored. Philosophy’s forgotten women: Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history. John and Harriet, still mysterious: Cass Sunstein reviews Hayek on Mill: The Mill–Taylor Friendship and Other Writings by Friedrich Hayek. What is it like to be a philosopher? Clifford Sosis interviews Mary Louise Gill, Michael Ruse and Berit Brogaard. Disappointingly normal: Philosophers, like the ordinary folk, are susceptible to various cognitive biases. There’s “just lip service to free speech” on college campuses: Philosopher Colin McGinn on ideological witch hunts, the marginalization of academic philosophy, and the limits of human reason. Noam Chomsky receives the Philosophy Now Award for fighting stupidity. Keith Parsons takes up the task of justifying to taxpayers why public universities should offer philosophy courses. The first chapter from Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World by Carlos Fraenkel. Will computers do philosophy? Justin Weinberg wonders. Justin Weinberg on the distant future of philosophy: “In short, if philosophy makes progress or if it doesn’t, its future doesn’t look so good”. I watch therefore I am: Seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons. Pale/ontology: The great failing of all philosophy is its continued refusal to properly consider the question of dinosaurs.
