September 2011
3 posts
Effective, Risk-Free, Exciting: Choose Two
The Last Psych is predictably unenthused about the #occupywallst protests:
But when the oppressive entity is so poorly defined (e.g. Wall Street, “the banks”, corruption) these protests always and without fail turn into protests against the police. Idiotically, in the minds of the protestors, the police are standing in for the banks. So all their antagonism and vitriol is turned against police...
The new APA website
What with philosophers showing up regularly in the New York Times (and on some of those occasions finding useful things to say), there have been concerns raised by many members of the profession that we are losing our hard-won image as aloof and untimely.
Thank goodness for the American Philosophical Association, which has preserved that image by providing a new website - where by...
