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Philosopher at Wichita State University At PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-hill Wichita State University Philosophy: https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/philosophy/faculty/index.php
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What did you do on New Years Eve 1999?

Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom, Scott Hill I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations against the conventional wisdom go wrong. Hagen…

WSU is hiring! AOS: Latin American Philosophy. If you know someone who works in the area, please share! philjobs.org/job/show/28422

My book Wonderstruck will come out in paperback edition soon! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Today I taught Susan Haack’s paper on scientific integrity. In the paper, she discusses a way in which musicians can lack integrity. I said that the band Sugar Ray illustrates her point. The students didn’t know who Sugar Ray was. So I played the first 30 seconds or so of this. Laughter ensued.

Any good explanations/data about how studying philosophy might benefit engineering students?

Scott Hill. 2024. “Where Are the Generalists?” SERRC 13 (11): 30–33. wp.me/p1Bfg0-9hG.

Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about? You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!

This is a great starter pack, thank you Emily!!