Register for the grad conference!

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(not) categorical imperative

Pelosi on Trump: ‘He knows the difference between right and wrong, but I don’t know that he really cares. I do think his categorical imperative is what’s good is what is right for him.'

— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) October 1, 2019

Brown Bag

today!

Thu 3 Oct, 11:45a
LN-2200

topic: Christine Korsgaard, "Species-Being and the Badness of Extinction and Death"

faculty's turn for lunch

wtffffffffff

"Trump instinctively gets the gist of Hegel" is one of the least discussed impeachable offenses. pic.twitter.com/iIzfAHxzfJ

— Michael Sevel (@MichaelSevel) October 1, 2019

Woodrow Wilson / Newcombe Fellowships

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has opened its 2020 competition for several fellowships that support either dissertation completion or junior faculty progress toward tenure. Recipients not only receive support for their work, but also join a 75-year-old network of some 27,000 Woodrow Wilson Fellows—a select group with an impressive collective record of scholarship, teaching, service, and public influence. Thank you for your consideration; we look forward to hearing from any excellent candidates whom you might help us to identify. Upcoming competition deadlines: The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies Deadline: October 15, 2019 Encourages research about women and gender that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. Recent Fellows have explored such topics as reproduction in the context of chronic disease, algorithmic detection of child abuse images, and changing feminist visions at the UN from 1975 to 1995. Download the program flyer here. Questions may be directed to hogans@woodrow.org. The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships  Deadline: November 15, 2019 Designed to encourage original and significant study of religious and ethical values in fields across the humanities and social sciences, the 2020 Newcombe Fellowships are available to Ph.D. and Th.D. candidates who expect to complete their dissertation between April and August 2021. Download the program flyer here. Questions may be directed to hogans@woodrow.org.

what kind of problem is climate change?

this is weirdly bad:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/opinion/climate-change.html

maybe if you read it as about PPE rather than about climate change it makes more sense

objectivity

ugh, this guy used to be Dean of the Graduate School here