Welcome Joel MacClellan

Welcome Prof. Joel MacClellan to our department as Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2013-14 academic year.

Joel earned his PhD in philosophy in 2012 from the University of Tennessee. He specializes in environmental ethics, and is particularly interested in the intersection between environmental ethics and animal ethics; Joel also has research interests in biomedical ethics, the philosophy of biology, and social and political philosophy.

During his year as a visitor at Binghamton Joel will be teaching a range of applied ethics courses including upper-division and graduate courses. I think he will make a great addition to SPEL's concentrations in applied ethics and will be an engaging conversation partner for faculty and grad students.

the SPEL welcoming committee

DEPARTMENT PICNIC THIS SATURDAY!

hope the weather's nice ...


starting at 1pm
in the usual place

Happy 200th Søren Kierkegaard!

the SJSU controversy

here in the Chronicle:

link

the open letter

Sandel's response


the NYT article: link
which adds the interesting point that the administration arranged to have the course taught by the English dept. after the Philosophy dept. refused to offer it

freedom

you gotta wear the pants

link: here

(side note: he's 6'7" -- the pants exist?)

this is kind of weird

The NYTimes reviews Daniel Dennett sailing?
or just a weird puff piece?

and how is "Freedom Evolves" a "play on" "Freedom Evolves"? Are they saying that Dennett is a continuous self-parody?

is becalming a technical problem?

first amendment law

yay!

my friend won his motion, so Gawker may now continue to publish a 1400 narrative of a Hulk Hogan sex tape.

more than I've done today. (I mean the motion-winning part. Or maybe the sex tape part. Whatever.)