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so be good for goodness sake

I’m tak­ing a break from seri­ous con­tent to bring you friv­o­lous xmas post, 2009. You know that song “Santa Clause is Com­ing to Town?” It con­tains the lyric: “so be good for good­ness sake.” But this is clearly incon­sis­tent with the con­tent of the song, and it dri­ves me crazy. Being good for good­ness’ sake means that …

December 24, 2009 – 4:13 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in ethics, makes me stabby, value | Tagged , , , | Comments (9)

teaching philosophy: possibility vs. plausibility

Here’s some­thing with which I’ve noticed intro to phi­los­o­phy stu­dents tend to strug­gle: the dif­fer­ence between it being pos­si­ble that a the­ory is true, and the theory’s being plau­si­ble. Exam­ple: In the course I’m TAing this semes­ter, one of the top­ics we dis­cussed is the nature of value. In virtue of what does any­thing have …

November 19, 2009 – 3:22 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in education, teaching, value | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

on the value of blogging

What value is there in blog­ging? Well, I sup­pose that depends on who you are. Some peo­ple blog to make money on adver­tis­ing, some peo­ple net­work with busi­ness con­tacts or pub­li­cize them­selves, some peo­ple are look­ing to share phở­tog­ra­phy, etc. I am a grad­u­ate stu­dent in phi­los­o­phy and edu­ca­tion who hopes to make a career, not …

June 27, 2009 – 12:30 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, ethics, value | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)