Mark D. White

Here are the links that caught my eye today over the last few days (what can I say, I've been working more than usual!):

Van Oudenhove and Cuypers, The relevance of the philosophical 'mind-body problem' for the status of psychosomatic medicine: a conceptual analysis of the biopsychosocial model (Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy)

An interesting and distinctive combination of medicine and philosophy (if only because I mostly pay attention to bioethics).

Notable & Quotable: Andrew Ferguson on why you don't need equations to understand economics (The Wall Street Journal)

Short but sweet.

Burt Bacharach: What the Songwriting World Needs Now (The Wall Street Journal)

Not what I expected, but important nonetheless.

Fredrik deBoer, Smarm and the Mob (personal blog)

A poignant comment on online communities' tendencies toward Manichean thinking.

Adam Thierer, "Is Privacy an Unalienable Right? The Problem with Privacy Paternalism" (The Technology Liberation Front), based in part on this law review article: Daniel J. Solove, "Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma" (Harvard Law Review)

Fascinating discussion of the precise nature of privacy rights.

John Warner, "When Good Work Doesn't 'Count'" (Inside Higher Ed), discussing Cathy Day's "This Blog is a Waste of My Time: Thoughts on the Three-Year Anniversary of The Big Thing" (The Big Thing)

I missed this the first time around, but an excellent call to broaden ideas of "scholarship" as used in reappointment, tenure, and promotion decisions. I'm proud to say my school's own committee (on which I serve) is tentatively progressive on this front, but nonetheless, appeals to recognize influence as much as pedigree (in the form of peer-review) are often dismissed.