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"Rational philosophy is on the march. It will f--- up all of your sh-- and leave you without any teeth."
Building an Ethics on the Foundation of Respect and Accountability
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Welcome to Back to the Drawing Board! Until the summer of 2009, this blog was maintained by Danny Shahar, who subsequently went off to begin graduate school at the University of Arizona. Feel free to look around, keeping in mind that by the time you read this Danny will likely think that everything on this site is terribly unsophisticated and crude.
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Read Things I've Written Elsewhere!
- In Praise of Educational Pluralism (Reprinted in The Freeman 1/20/09)
- In Praise of Educational Pluralism (9/15/08)
- The Seen and Unseen of Drinking-Age Laws (8/21/08)
- Could We Ever Justify Restraining Someone From Doing Drugs? (Part I) (1/2/08)
- Paternalists Just Don't Understand (11/20/07)
- Not High; Still Mighty (11/15/07)
- Putting a Price on Injustice (9/17/07)
- The Bjorn Ultimatum (9/4/07)
- The Skeptic's Wager (8/9/07)
- Who Dares Question the Global Warmocaust? (8/6/07)
- On the Objectivity of Self Ownership (8/1/07)
4 comments:
"the UA political philosophy program has recently been ranked #1 in the world"
Schwing!
Sounds really great. I don't mean to be a downer or anything, but are you worried at all that by going to Arizona you'll be pigeon-holed as a libertarian political philosopher rather than a philosopher simpliciter? I only ask because I'm seriously considering applying for the same program after I graduate, and I wondered what you thought.
Yay, Dave! The only problem is that picture of him is so tiny. But seriously, don't worry that having a degree from Arizona will type you as a nut-job.
Crazy, right?
Dan, you should check out some of Thomas Christiano's work. He's most definitely not a libertarian, and at least until the new faculty hires come in, I'm going to be relying on him to be my designated critic. We got to sit down to talk for an hour or so when I visited the school, and I can already tell that working with him is going to be just as important as working with Dave and Jerry. Also, the department is going to be hiring several new faculty members in political philosophy, and I can't imagine they'd all be even remotely libertarian.
So I guess I'm not too worried that studying at Arizona will make me close-minded or narrow-focused. And aside from working with Dr. Christiano and the other non-libertarian political philosophy professors who will be joining the faculty, I'm also going to be continuing my climate change research, and my hope is to be able to articulate my ideas in that community in a way that will be accessible to the non-libertarians who tend to exert a dominant influence in some areas. So that'll force me to make myself presentable to a more mainstream audience as well.
In any case, definitely feel free to get in touch with me as you're working through the grad school application process; good luck!
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