Category: Books
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The Wall Street Journal this morning contains a review of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos; the review was written by John Gribbin , author of In Search of the Multiverse: Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality. Greene's book (and I…
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Mark D. White In the latest New York Review of Books (Feb. 10, 2011), Ronald Dworkin asks "What Is a Good Life?", offering an answer drawn from his book, Justice for Hedgehogs. From the article: We have a responsibility to live well, and the importance of living well accounts for the value of having a critically good…
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Just announced from the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series: Call for Abstracts The Avengers and Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for Cross-posting. To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at…
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Mark D. White I just came across a fascinating paper titled "Is Health (Really) Special? Health Policy Between Rawlsian and Luck Egalitarian Justice" by Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. From the abstract: In recent work, Norman Daniels extends the application of Rawls's principle of "fair equality of opportunity"…
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Mark D. White In a recent op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Barry C. Sheck of the Innocence Project detailed the wrongful execution in Texas of convicted murderer Claude Jones after then-Governor George W. Bush was not informed of Jones' request for a last-minute DNA test on the one piece of physical evidence tying him to his alleged…
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Just want to let everyone know that Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book (Wiley), edited by Jane Dryden and myself, is now available for pre-order at Amazon (through the link above and to the right). I'll share more details about the book as the May 2011 publication date approaches, but Jane and I…
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Welcome to the new home of The Comics Professor, where I hope to update and comment much more often. (My older posts are still available at the Blogger.com site.) For my first post, I have the call for abstracts for my next edited book in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series: Call for Abstracts…
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Mark D. White I thought the first two letters to the editor in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal were excellent, reinforcing a point made in my chapter from Accepting the Invisible Hand: Market-Based Approaches to Social-Economic Problems on markets, dignity, and health care (see this previous post): Dr. Sally Satel helpfully describes some of the factors inhibiting…
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Mark D. White The idea for this post (as well as the title) comes from Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, who writes: Chris, a loyal MR reader, asks: I'd like to see you list the top 10 books which have influenced your view of the world. I'll go with the "gut list," rather than the…
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Mark D. White Just as Frans de Waal's new book The Age of Empathy comes out (WSJ review here), Robin Hanson (at Overcoming Bias) posts (skeptically, I might add) that new studies show our natural sociality to be limited, especially when it concerns specific persons rather than people in the aggregate. Hansen quotes from a 2007…
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