Philosophy Now News: February/March 2015 ------------------- (No) Women in Philosophy A recent report by the Equality Challenge Unit found that, among non-Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, philosophy is, with the exception of Economics, the most male-dominated. In the UK women account for only 28.8% of professional philosophers. This shocking statistic will not come as a surprise to Professor Jennifer Saul, who has been hosting a blog with an abundance of accounts of what it can be like being a woman in philosophy: _beingawomaninphilosophy.wordpress.com_ (http://beingawomaninphilosophy.wordpress.com/) . --------------------- The Google Philosopher Luciano Floridi, professor of philosophy and ethics of information at Oxford University’s Internet Institute (OII) has been appointed by Google to advise them on the EU’s Right to be Forgotten ruling. According to the Italian philosopher, we all inhabit a new online life-world, together with everything else from websites to sewing machines, racing cars and puppies. A human being is now the sum of her information: professional, social, political, medical, financial and personal. Sharing, manipulation and ownership of data therefore become vital issues. Our lives are organized accordingly: “We format our lives, our world, our reality, from an informational perspective,” Floridi comments. He argues that we therefore need a critical discipline which analyses and evaluates this new situation in all its forms and developments, a ‘Philosophy of Information’. -------------- Philosophy in Schools Philosophy is to become a subject on the Irish Republic’s school curriculum for the first time under a plan developed by minister for education Jan O’ Sullivan, to give “students an opportunity to explore the concepts and ideas of philosophy in the 21st century.” Believing that it will make “a significant contribution to giving students the tools to critically engage in an informed manner with the world around them” the Minister says she will ask the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to design a short Philosophy course that can be taught in the early years of secondary school. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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