From Parrhesia, Friedrich Balke (Cologne): Restating Sovereignty: On America’s Regaining the Old Sense of the Political; Clare Blackburne (King's): (Up) Against the (In) Between: Interstitial Spatiality in Genet and Derrida; Patrick French (King's): Friendship, Assymetry, Sacrifice: Bataille and Blanchot; Marguerite La Caze (Queensland): Sartre Integrating Ethics and Politics: The Case of Terrorism; Nina Power (Middlesex): Philosophy's Subjects; new horizons in mathematics as a philosophical condition: An interview with Alain Badiou; a review of Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed by Matheson Russell; and a review of The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy by Alison Ross. A review of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy. A review of Husserl by David Woodruff Smith.
E. O. Wilson on how the Encyclopedia of Life, a new project in biology, should make it possible to discover the remaining 90 percent of species in perhaps a single human generation. Girls Gone Boys Gone Wild: Altering a mouse's sense of smell can seriously mess with its gender identity. Behavioral Science Turns to Dogs for Answers: For a long time, domesticated dogs were seen as just the slobbering, dumbed-down ancestor of the wild wolf. Dogs, though, have learned a few tricks of their own through the millennia — and can teach us a lot about ourselves. It's no secret that we humans are smarter than our primate relatives. But exactly how are we smarter? Higher social skills are distinctly human, toddler and ape study reveals. Will super smart artificial intelligences keep humans around as pets? And other questions from the Singularity Summit.
Glenn A. Davis (ASES): Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination, and Progressive Education. For forging higher ideas in young minds, there's nothing like the classics of Western civilization. Eric Foner on Changing History: After 9/11, the history we teach should be a conversation with the entire world, not a complacent dialogue with ourselves. This year, a record number of student activists have been found guilty of terrorist crimes. As the new academic year begins, a look at how universities are dealing with the challenge. Many academics on the supposedly progressive side do not admit that everything they value is intolerable to radical Islam. A tenure bid by Nadia Abu El-Haj, a professor at Barnard, has put Columbia once again at the center of a struggle over scholarship on the Middle East. An interview with Norman Finkelstein, who resigned from DePaul . Ban the bombers? Freedom to Teach: Michael Berube writes about why the AAUP’s new statement on freedom in the classroom matters so much.
