pages tagged linkdumpspwhittonhttps://spwhitton.name//tag/linkdump/spwhittonikiwiki2015-11-18T17:09:12ZAugust 2015 linkdumphttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/aug15/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2015-08-11T01:29:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2014/12/why-prison-is-unfit-for-civilised.html">Why Prison is Unfit for Civilised
Society</a></p>
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November/December 2014 link dumphttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/novdec14/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2014-12-11T07:27:00Z
<p><a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/should-generation-ted-take-a-more-sceptical-view/?utm_source=feedburner">Generation TED and the power of <br />
positivity</a></p>
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May 2014 link dumphttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/may2014/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2014-05-07T11:01:00Z
<p><a href="https://philosophy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/athens-hudson-new-york-philosophy-nyt-2001/">Athens on the
Hudson</a></p>
<p>Reading this makes me think that I’ve no chance of getting anywhere
studying on my own in Korea.</p>
<p><a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/why-did-we-evolve-to-appreciate-beauty/">Why did we evolve to appreciate
beauty?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-19711111print%3Dtrue">Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A savage Journey to the Heart of the
American Dream by Hunter S.
Thompson</a></p>
<p><a href="http://theholenearthecenteroftheworld.com/">It’s Adventure Time</a></p>
April 2014 link dumphttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/apr14/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2014-04-13T03:53:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n02/richard-rorty/how-many-grains-make-a-heap">How many grains make a heap? | Richard
Rorty</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/02/07/colleges-flunk-mental-health.html">How Colleges Flunk Mental Health |
Newsweek</a></p>
<p><a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/are-ugly-people-oppressed/">Are ugly people oppressed? | Johnny
Thakkar</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/why-study-philosophy-to-challenge-your-own-point-of-view/283954/">Why Study Philosophy? ‘To Challenge Your Own Point of
View’</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.philosophersmail.com/110314-capitalism-marxism.php">You are a Marxist - but don’t
worry</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.theawl.com/2014/03/the-service-economy-trap-inside-brooklyns-barista-class">Inside The Barista
Class</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html">The Face Behind
Bitcoin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22491-the-leader-obama-wanted-to-become-and-what-became-of-him">The Leader Obama Wanted to Become and What Became of
Him</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/catiejane/15-reasons-to-live-in-seoul-g3d9">Reasons to live in Seoul from
Buzzfeed</a></p>
<p>Some nice pictures</p>
<p><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/27/travel/10-things-south-korea-does-best/index.html?hpt%3Dtravel_hp_herobox">10 things South Korea does better than anywhere
else</a></p>
<p>A bit tongue in cheek.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.addisonembroideryatthevicarage.co.uk/2013/11/16/farewell-to-the-library-chairs/">Farewell to the {Balliol} library
chairs</a></p>
<p>Warning: slightly sickening prose style</p>
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January 2014 linkdumphttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/jan14/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2014-01-10T02:39:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/the-modern-phenomenon-of-nonsense-jobs-20130831-2sy3j.html">The modern phenomenon of nonsense
jobs</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mg.co.za/article/2013-11-01-universities-head-for-extinction/">Universities head for
extinction</a></p>
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Interesting things I've read recentlyhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/sep13/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-09-03T12:41:00Z
<p>I’ve caved and created a category for these inevitable posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/">What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School
Success</a></p>
<blockquote><p>As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs.
“There’s no word for accountability in Finnish,” he later told an
audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University.
“Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been
subtracted.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I would very much like to read some political philosophy on this; how
important is accountability? It seems to inevitably get in the way of
things, but surely we need some.</p>
<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/">Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like
“qeadzcwrsfxv1331”</a></p>
<p>I think that <a href="http://xkcd.com/936/">the xkcd method</a> may no longer be
good enough.</p>
<p><a href="http://philosophypress.co.uk/?p%3D1159">Nigel Warburton, virtual philosopher |
TPM</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ross-andersen-human-extinction/">Omens | aeon
magazine</a></p>
<p>Toby Ord, someone from my college, is apparently in conflict between
whether our moral responsibility for our trillions of potential
descendents overrides our responsibilities for people starving in the
third world today. This is what you get for being a utilitarian!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities">Pinker: Science is Not Your
Enemy</a></p>
<p>There are quite a lot of problems with this article, even though it’s
probably right to say that philosophy should pay more attention to
results coming out of psychology etc. Particularly worrying is the claim
that a bunch of liberal, democratic values flow automatically out of
science—and the unstated assumption that we shouldn’t question these
values because they arise in those who do enough science. <a href="http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.cz/2013/08/steven-pinker-embraces-scientism-bad.html">Here’s a
response</a>
(which I haven’t read).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/03/will-self-psychiatrist-drug-medication">Psychiatrists: the Drug Pushers | Will Self in the
Guardian</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/20/lessons-of-the-snowden-revelations/">Lessons of the Snowden Revelations |
CounterPunch</a></p>
<p><a href="https://chronicle.com/article/Where-Thomas-Nagel-Went-Wrong/139129/">Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong | The
Chronicle</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-english-major.html?_r%3D0">The Decline and Fall of the English Major | The New York
Times</a></p>
<p><a href="http://africasacountry.com/the-cartography-of-bullshit/">The Cartography of
Bullshit</a></p>
<p>This is another article lessening my faith in the media. One thing I
notice is that now I’ve graduated university the people who write the
blog that this one is criticising are no longer so far away: I know
someone who was just one year above me at university who now writes for
the Telegraph. The fact that they were previously older and more
educated than me led me to doubt that they could really be as terrible
as people say they can be; I thought I wasn’t in a position to know.
Increasingly I feel I can.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman">The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture | The New
Yorker</a></p>
<p><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/does-great-literature-make-us-better/">Does Great Literature Make Us Better? | The New York
Times</a></p>
<p>Mr Currie argues that there is no evidence that great literature makes
us morally better; in order to recommend reading and studying it for
this purpose, scientific studies are required to show that it changes
people for the better. He makes a good point that the common belief that
it’s really great for your soul to read <em>Anna Karenina</em> and friends is
not very well defended. However it’s not clear what such a scientific
study could consist in. Lots of philosophers, following Aristotle, have
argued that direct comparisons between individuals as to their moral
status is literally impossible (rather than just very hard) except in
obvious, crude cases. Without attempting to get into that here, a
simpler point is that literature shapes society so much that you can’t
get out of its clutches in order to make dispassinoate evaluations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/27/physics-philosophy-quantum-relativity-einstein">Philosophy isn’t dead yet | the
Guardian</a></p>
<p><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/44846">Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go | The
Chronicle</a></p>
<p>grim grim grim</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/visions/chomsky-corporations-and-richest-americans-viscerally-oppose-common-good">Chomsky: Corporations and the Richest Americans Viscerally Oppose
Common
Good</a></p>
<blockquote><p>[The capitalists require that] people must come to believe that
suffering and deprivation result from the failure of individuals, not
the reigning socioeconomic system. There are huge industries devoted
to this task.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://truth-out.org/articles/item/17750-teach-for-america-apostates-a-primer-of-alumni-resistance">Teach for America Apostates: a Primer of Alumni Resistance
</a></p>
<blockquote><p>On Anthony Cody’s blog, he describes TFA as part of a “neoliberal
hyper-accountability movement.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/the-real-war-on-reality/">The Real War on Reality | The New York
Times</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22729780">Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy? | BBC
News</a></p>
<p>Challenging material! I could not say much for most of those questions
and I have just done a degree in it.</p>