Author Archives: sharon crasnow

Feminist philosophers and women philosophers

Posted on January 11, 2008 by sharon crasnow

There is an interesting discussion unfolding on the SWIP list over the last couple of days. It began with some questions about both the validity and the usefulness of the Leiter rankings for women and/or feminists going into philosophy. It … Continue reading →

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Articles in Philosophy of Science: Models and Representation

Posted on December 28, 2007 by sharon crasnow

For a treat during winter break, I am reading back issues of Philosophy of Science and have been pleasantly surprised that there are articles that I am actually interested in reading! Vol. 74 (2007) has a number of articles that … Continue reading →

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Doing philosophy in public

Posted on December 20, 2007 by sharon crasnow

What is it to do public philosophy? At Gone Public there is a post and this suggestion for the answer: So what is public philosophy? I’d say it is philosophy that is in some way or another engaged with public … Continue reading →

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Has the Time Finally Come?

Posted on December 11, 2007 by sharon crasnow

Over the last several weeks and perhaps more gradually over the last year or so there seems to have been an increasing awareness of the many ways in which women are less incorporated into the world of academic philosophy than … Continue reading →

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Philosophers’ Carnival

Posted on December 4, 2007 by sharon crasnow

My post made the carnival! It is posted here as “Science on Faith”, but also posted at Knowledge and Experience. Check out the Philosophers’ Carnival at Philosophy Sucks.

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What do the Numbers Mean?

Posted on December 2, 2007 by sharon crasnow

Over at Knowledge and Experience Evelyn Brister is posting a series on women in philosophy. What is really interesting is that for PhDs in philosophy, slightly under 30% are women and undergraduate women philosophy majors appear to be a very … Continue reading →

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The Value of Philosophy

Posted on November 28, 2007 by sharon crasnow

Noelle McAfee asks “What Counts as Philosophy?” at Gone Public. She is wondering about professional philosophy, but I like to think about what counts as philosophy in our daily lives. Professional philosophy is just a more rarefied version of something … Continue reading →

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Mothering and Philosophy

Posted on November 26, 2007 by sharon crasnow

Noelle McAfee has a post at Gone Public on Women,Children, and Philosophy. She speculates that there are fewer women with children in philosophy, perhaps because philosophy is modeled more closely after the sciences than the humanities. Is the question whether … Continue reading →

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Science on Faith?

Posted on November 24, 2007 by sharon crasnow

Paul Davies has a piece on the op ed page of today’s NYT that seems to me to be rather confused. In the piece, Davies argues that science and religion are not at odds in the way that they are … Continue reading →

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