“I think a lot of wisdom in life (and in philosophy) is about being able to see why things are confusing-once you can see that the confusion itself is a lot easier to live with even if you still don’t have the answer” - an interview with philosopher and advice-columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith (Princeton). 
“People don’t like being tricked, especially when the trickery results in giving another person affections they don’t deserve” - Jesse Hamilton (U. Travel as a philosophical activity - Emily Thomas (Durham) interviewed on travel, philosophy, women and other subjects. “The most important teacher of philosophy in America, if not the world, for a third of a century” - a documentary about Bob Gurland, a longtime, highly-regarded teacher of philosophy at NYU (link is to the film's trailer). Physics does not act as queen in these cases” - "Rather," says Nancy Cartwright (Durham), "she does her bit as part of a motley assembly of scientific. “Instead of supposing that physics must be queen of all we survey, I recommend we construct our image of what an ultimate science might be like on the basis of what current science is like when it is most successful. But you don’t have to know the answers” - Scott Hershovitz (Michigan) interviewed about kids and philosophy Don’t be afraid of these conversations with your kids. “Ask your kids questions and question their answers. Now Open Access: 7 articles by Kripke and 12 articles and book chapters by others about Kripke’s work - "The Legacy of Saul Kripke" is a memorial collection put together by Wiley (via Eric Piper). One example of the weirdness: "the proton contains traces of particles. 
“Decades of research have revealed a deeper truth, one that’s too bizarre to fully capture with words or images” - but it doesn't stop this writer and graphics editor from trying. “The value of the humanities is, upon exposure to real humanistic practice, self-evident… a society that acts as if this were not true, that threatens artists and philosophers and poets with oblivion or obscurity if they cannot justify their existence, is a profoundly sick culture” - John Michael Colón on the confusions of the "canon wars". “Agency appears to be an occasional, remarkable property of matter, and one we should feel comfortable invoking when offering causal explanations of what we’re observing” - an attempt to provide a scientifically respectable explanation of agency that doesn't explain it away, from Philip Ball. 
Our goal should be to do it better” - we can go "beyond gamification’s traditionally thoughtless application of points and badges" and use "game design principles put the oft-dashed ideals of digital democracy into practice," argues Adrian Hon
“Our democracies are already gamified. The thing is, we know this is how behavior works in other domains” - Eve Fairbanks on the gap between talk of cancel culture and its reality #Ne x the talos principle image free#
“It might sound strange, or even offensive, to suggest that writing about threats to free speech could make people afraid of speaking. Feel like you’re not good enough to be an academic? Turns out it’s because your parents weren’t good enough at encouraging you - a new study finds that "the less encouragement a doctoral student received from their parents in childhood and adolescence, the more likely they were to suffer impostor feelings". Brewer (UT Dallas) describes his course on the philosophy of horror films “The last unit we cover is on ‘The Ethics of Horror,’ and we discuss whether there is something morally dubious about watching and enjoying horror” - Kenneth L.
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