Justin Caouette
@drjustincaouette.bsky.social
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My interview with Cliff over at âWhat is it like to be a Philosopher?â (2022)
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? features in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers
http://www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/#/justin-caouette/
about 1 year ago
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Ok. Iâm reluctantly signing off this account now. Follow me at
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Experimental Philosophy
12 months ago
Our new paper on why people love sad art The key question: You probably wouldnât enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Justin Caouette, Ph.D.
12 months ago
My interview with Cliff over at âWhat is it like to be a Philosopher?â (2022)
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? features in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers
http://www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/
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Justin Caouette, Ph.D.
12 months ago
Wise words from Tiny Dragon
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Just got a new phone and also recently got locked out of my BSU email address (which was the address I used to get on Bluesky). So, once I send back my old phone I will no longer have access to this account. Iâll be setting up a new one to replace this. A bit annoying. Might wait a while. âđŒ
12 months ago
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20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops. 21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb. The end.
12 months ago
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17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited. 18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east." 19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.
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11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing. 12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever. 13. I run like the winded.
12 months ago
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5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late. 6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago. 7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects. 8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
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These made me laugh. I copied from a friend! 1. When 1 door closes & another opens, you are probably in prison. 2. To me, "drink responsibly" means dont spill it. 3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9pm is the new midnight. 4. Itâs the start of a brand new day, and Im off like a herd of turtles
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Eric Schwitzgebel
12 months ago
regardless of theory. Full post:
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-ro...
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A Robot Lover's Sociological Argument for Robot Consciousness
https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-robot-lovers-sociological-argument.html
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Eric Schwitzgebel
12 months ago
intractable qualities, abandoning its main practical, social usefulness (or worse, using its obscurity to justify what seems like bigotry), or allowing that if an entity can interact with us in (what we experience as) a sufficiently socially significant ways, it has consciousness enough 2/3
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Eric Schwitzgebel
12 months ago
In today's blog post, I offer a sociological argument for regarding robots as conscious, in a hypothetical future in which AI companions are common. If AI companionship technology flourishes, we might face the choice between connecting "consciousness" definitionally to scientifically 1/3
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When AI takes your job: The answer to why a job exists may displacement threats by AI
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When AI takes your job
The answer to why a job exists may displacement threats by AI
https://jimmyalfonsolicon.substack.com/p/when-ai-takes-your-job
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These made me laugh. I copied from a friend! 1. When 1 door closes & another opens, you are probably in prison. 2. To me, "drink responsibly" means dont spill it. 3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9pm is the new midnight. 4. Itâs the start of a brand new day, and Im off like a herd of turtles
12 months ago
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PPE Network in Europe
12 months ago
Call for applications for the summer school hosted by
@univie.ac.at
has just gone live! The topic will be the history and epistemology of econometrics. More info on the course, and info about the guest lecturers can be found here:
summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at
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Summer School Institute Vienna Circle
Summer School Institute Vienna Circle
https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/
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Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across Species
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Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across Species
Abstract. When, if ever, is it better to spend money to improve pig welfare over chicken welfare? Which species of fish is worst off in commercial aquacult
https://academic.oup.com/book/58809
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Lindsay Beyerstein
12 months ago
Debunking MAGAâs hateful lies about the LA fires: The reservoirs were full, the fire budget was increased, the 12 firefighters fired for refusing to get Covid shots were replaced long ago, the donations to Ukraine were nominal, and on, and on.
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Elon Musk is the new emperor of misinformation - Kevin Drum
Here's the latest from Elon Musk about the LA wildfires: Every single thing on this list is either badly misleading or flat-out wrong: Reservoirs and emergency water tanks were all full before the fir...
https://jabberwocking.com/elon-musk-is-the-new-emperor-of-misinformation/
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6?fbclid=IwY2xjawHpDSRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZGhBiLjwSS5ZfcsdWl4X1CfmMQ93h5aXvX51106bGRFHsCaLN7_ErHVMg_aem_GP48amESzM_7xmSFpTUY4Q
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Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across Species
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Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across Species
Abstract. When, if ever, is it better to spend money to improve pig welfare over chicken welfare? Which species of fish is worst off in commercial aquacult
https://academic.oup.com/book/58809
12 months ago
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Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey?
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Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey?
A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards.1,2 As editors and members of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), we receive queries about these âpredatoryâ or âpseudoâ entities and are subject to their deception when they target our authors and reviewers. The number of predatory journals is difficult to accurately determine but was estimated at more than 15â000 in 2021.3 While the ICMJE Recommendations include warnings about predatory publishing,4 the Committee believes that the large number of increasingly bold predatory entities warrants shining a bright light on them and considering actions stakeholders can take to counter their deceptive efforts.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02863-0/fulltext
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6?fbclid=IwY2xjawHpDSRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZGhBiLjwSS5ZfcsdWl4X1CfmMQ93h5aXvX51106bGRFHsCaLN7_ErHVMg_aem_GP48amESzM_7xmSFpTUY4Q
12 months ago
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Adam Toon
12 months ago
Out now! Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023)
t.co/eBlYtDd5lY
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Chatbottery: Why the writing is on the wall for essay writing
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Why the writing is on the wall for essay writing
Will 2025 be the year we give up the teaching of writing? I donât mean the basics, of course; elementary pupils still need to learn their letters. (How
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/afterthoughts/chatbottery-afterthoughts-regina-rini?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0ZI8245LijAFqk2e50QDSHNxGL6skCAhOoOcYBBjIE4CkVdViHId9O_gg_aem_2degZOMcVg-sfT_8aTK7_g
12 months ago
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Hypervisible
12 months ago
âMore than 800 âpotential vulnerabilities and biasesâ were uncovered by a Pentagon effort to spot problems with using large language models in military medical services, officials said Thursday.â
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800-plus 'potential vulnerabilities and biases' may afflict AI-infused medical services
A DOD red team looked at the proposed use of large language models to summarize clinical notes and drive an advisory chatbot.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/01/dod-announces-completion-pilot-identify-medical-ai-vulnerabilities/401982/?oref=d1-category-lander-featured-river
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Chris
12 months ago
Mental states are not simple, but a âchoirâ performing a âsymphonyâ composed of simpler states. I love this part of Bergsonâs Time and Free Will.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell
about 1 year ago
Synthese special issue CFP gatekeeping in science. Editors: Katherine Dormandy & Eric Winsberg
@ewinsberg.bsky.social
Deadline 25 April 25
#philsci
#philsky
link.springer.com/collections/...
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Gatekeeping in Science
Science, which we may understand broadly as the natural, social and human sciences, depends on gatekeeping to maintain its epistemic credentials. It must keep ...
https://link.springer.com/collections/dijeggebce?fbclid=IwY2xjawHOkhxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYAxQ1AqA9bBl3qFCF9kiFi0xL6PbJXVBcaVxtLaA6e8qfrDGzMWCRv3ag_aem_wH-gV_evUL36x5_awhNJjw
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Anna Alexandrova
about 1 year ago
Great framing for a special issue
#metascience
#philsci
#histsci
#sts
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Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey?
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Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey?
A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards.1,2 As editors and members of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), we receive queries about these âpredatoryâ or âpseudoâ entities and are subject to their deception when they target our authors and reviewers. The number of predatory journals is difficult to accurately determine but was estimated at more than 15â000 in 2021.3 While the ICMJE Recommendations include warnings about predatory publishing,4 the Committee believes that the large number of increasingly bold predatory entities warrants shining a bright light on them and considering actions stakeholders can take to counter their deceptive efforts.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02863-0/fulltext
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Daniel S. Goldberg
12 months ago
Dr. Lanphier, FWIW, fantastic Medicaid legal scholar Nicole Huberfeld has a paper on work requirements in our
@jlme-journal.bsky.social
theme issue on âMalingering & Health Policyâ contextualizing the effort to pass them in terms of fears about âdeceptionâ etc. Itâs gross but is explanatory IMO âŠ
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Medicaid Waivers, Administrative Authority, and the Shadow of Malingering | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Medicaid Waivers, Administrative Authority, and the Shadow of Malingering - Volume 49 Issue 3
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/medicaid-waivers-administrative-authority-and-the-shadow-of-malingering/729DC281FE89931CE52334D981871D42
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Chatbottery: Why the writing is on the wall for essay writing
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Why the writing is on the wall for essay writing
Will 2025 be the year we give up the teaching of writing? I donât mean the basics, of course; elementary pupils still need to learn their letters. (How
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/afterthoughts/chatbottery-afterthoughts-regina-rini?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0ZI8245LijAFqk2e50QDSHNxGL6skCAhOoOcYBBjIE4CkVdViHId9O_gg_aem_2degZOMcVg-sfT_8aTK7_g
12 months ago
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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy
12 months ago
Hello
#PhilSky
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#Philosophy
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#PhilSci
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#PhilMind
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#AIEthics
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#germanidealism
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#feministphilosophy
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and much more. We can't wait to connect with you all!
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The Cat in the Hat
12 months ago
...love this thought. I would say also that like folklore it is an oral tradition, to be spoken, not palely reflected in papers.
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Philosophical Psychology
12 months ago
Sofia Jeppsson with âAllegedly impossible experiencesâ
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Allegedly impossible experiences
In this paper, I will argue for two interrelated theses. First, if we take phenomenological psychopathology seriously, and want to understand what it is like to undergo various psychopathological e...
https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2310628
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Philosophical Psychology
12 months ago
Our January 2024 in open access: Markus Ilkka Eronen with âCausal complexity and psychological measurementâ
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
Richard Gipps & Simon Clarke on âReligious delusion or religious belief?â
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Sean T. Murphy
12 months ago
Please let students know about the upcoming Undergrad Phil Conf at SUU! Deadline: Jan 9.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
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2025 Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
2025 Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference March 22, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. A.K. Flowerree Associate Professor, Texas Tech University We are pleased to announce the 11th annu...
https://philevents.org/event/show/129102
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Political Theory of the Digital Age (review) âAny political philosophy that speaks to the political problems of this century must also be a philosophy of technologyâ (27)
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Political Theory of the Digital Age: Where Artificial Intelligence Might Take Us
Political philosophy has a way of making the timeless timely. Although Mathias Risse’s Political Theory of the Digital Age addresses its subt...
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/political-theory-of-the-digital-age-where-artificial-intelligence-might-take-us/
12 months ago
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Preliminaries to artificial consciousness
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Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: a multidimensional heuristic approach
The pursuit of artificial consciousness requires conceptual clarity to navigate its theoretical and empirical challenges. This paper introduces a composite, multilevel, and multidimensional model of c...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20177
12 months ago
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Why arenât we talking about the real reason make college enrollment is dropping?
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college?triedRedirect=true&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2GmBWGpJ6kmBmzJnD5UjpwTBaHPYY3vEG60cm3K4L8ne0zS_182a4B7U0_aem_GcqpF2dsAJT3svQ6Yg5wFA
12 months ago
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Farbod Akhlaghi
12 months ago
A final reminder of this opportunity to join us in the Dept. of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Please share with anyone interested â AOS and AOC Open; deadline: 14th January!
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The New Yorker
12 months ago
Richard Brody on why DVD owners shouldnât throw out their collections just yet.
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What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Maybe donât throw away all your DVDs just yet.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/what-we-lose-when-streaming-companies-choose-what-we-watch?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Lara Buchak
over 1 year ago
My paper "Faith and rational deference to authority" is now out in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research. I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority even when the authority's pronouncement goes against your own reasoning.
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Faith and rational deference to authority
Many accounts of faith hold that faith is deference to an authority about what to believe or what to do. I show that this kind of faith fits into a more general account of faith, the risky-commitment....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpr.12996
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Anita Leirfall
12 months ago
âIt seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didnât seem my life until I started to write.â ~ Louise GlĂŒck
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Writing as Transformation
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/writing-as-transformation-louise-gluck
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Folklore is Philosophy âAcademics zero in on narrower and narrower topics in order to establish unique niches and, in the process, what was once a discipline that sought answers to humanityâs most fundamental questions becomes a jargon-riddled puzzle for a narrow group of insiders.â
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Folktales like philosophy startle us into rethinking our values | Aeon Essays
Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world
https://aeon.co/essays/folktales-like-philosophy-startle-us-into-rethinking-our-values
12 months ago
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SPAN
12 months ago
đ SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details:
philandneuro.com
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Harriet Fagerberg
12 months ago
The Philosophy and Medicine Project at
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...
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CfA Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable â Philosophy & Medicine
https://www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosophy-of-medicine-roundtable
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Why arenât we talking about the real reason make college enrollment is dropping?
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college?triedRedirect=true&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2GmBWGpJ6kmBmzJnD5UjpwTBaHPYY3vEG60cm3K4L8ne0zS_182a4B7U0_aem_GcqpF2dsAJT3svQ6Yg5wFA
12 months ago
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