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2022 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise

2022 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise

Published by Jenni Sidey

Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise,” given at the 2022 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise” by Margaret Gilbert Margaret Gilbert is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, Irvine, where she was the Founding Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy from 2006 to 2025. Prior to joining the faculty at UCI, she taught at the University of Manchester (UK) and the University of Connecticut, where she is professor emerita. She has a BA in classics and philosophy from Cambridge University, as well as a BPhil with distinction and a PhD in philosophy from Oxford University. Her research interests are in social phenomena such as acting together, collective beliefs, social conventions, agreements and promises, and related areas of moral and political philosophy and philosophy of law, including rights theory …

Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral in LA

Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral in LA

Published by Jenni Sidey

As Donald Trump finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and battery packs onto carts and brought them to the middle of a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the 101. In the anonymity of darkness, the members of the guerilla art collective VJayBombs set up their gear with the confidence of practice. Within minutes, the projector was warming up and aligned with the 100-foot-tall wall of the L.A. Downtown Medical Center. Then, a final review of the video to be projected was made. Related Articles “Did you put sweat on the Statue of Liberty?” Cat, a co-founder of the group, asked. “That’s sick.” “Looks good to me,” said Bev, another co-founder. He then caught himself: “Go back to ‘immigrant’ for a second. ‘Immigrant’ was spelled right, yeah?” And with that, the laptop was connected to the …

Verity Collective launches to point Gen Z to truth in a culture of confusion

Verity Collective launches to point Gen Z to truth in a culture of confusion

Published by Sam Flores

New organization leads a searching generation back to the unchanging foundation of Jesus PORTLAND, Ore. — As Generation Z increasingly rejects the idea of absolute truth, with 60% prioritizing individual beliefs and 57% saying religious and moral questions are not fact, a new initiative launched today offers this generation honest conversations about real truth. Founded by Rick and Naomi Anderson, Verity Collective is a movement rooted in the unchanging truth of the gospel. Created out of a desire to highlight truth in a culture constantly chasing trends, the cornerstone of the initiative is John 14:6: “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’” (New International Version). “Verity Collective was created in direct response to Gen Z’s search for truth,” said Naomi Anderson, co-founder and visionary of Verity Collective. “This generation has been told that everyone is entitled to their ‘truth,’ creating more confusion in one of the most pivotal stages of life: young adulthood. We want to create space for honest conversations and …

New schools report underlines urgency of RE and collective worship reform – Humanists UK

New schools report underlines urgency of RE and collective worship reform – Humanists UK

Published by Sam Flores

A new report from Stranmillis University College, Faith in our Schools, has laid bare the scale of Christian influence in Northern Ireland schools. The report comes just months after the UK Supreme Court ruled in the landmark JR87 case that exclusively Christian Religious Education (RE) and collective worship were ‘indoctrination’. Northern Ireland Humanists said the findings add further weight to the need for urgent reform to both RE and collective worship. The report, which was commissioned by Scripture Union Northern Ireland, explores how churches and Christian groups engage with schools across Northern Ireland. It found that: 94% of school leaders reported links with at least one local church 73% of school leaders reported partnerships with Christian organisations.  The report also found serious gaps in transparency and parental awareness of church involvement in schools. Only 38% of parents surveyed felt sufficiently informed about activities involving churches or Christian organisations. Only one third of pupils knew they could opt out of these activities, with many saying they feared stigma if they did so. In its ruling on …

New schools report underlines urgency of RE and collective worship reform – Humanists UK

New schools report underlines urgency of RE and collective worship reform – Humanists UK

Published by Sam Flores

A new report from Stranmillis University College, Faith in our Schools, has laid bare the scale of Christian influence in Northern Ireland schools. The report comes just months after the UK Supreme Court ruled in the landmark JR87 case that exclusively Christian Religious Education (RE) and collective worship were ‘indoctrination’. Northern Ireland Humanists said the findings add further weight to the need for urgent reform to both RE and collective worship. The report, which was commissioned by Scripture Union Northern Ireland, explores how churches and Christian groups engage with schools across Northern Ireland. It found that: 94% of school leaders reported links with at least one local church 73% of school leaders reported partnerships with Christian organisations.  The report also found serious gaps in transparency and parental awareness of church involvement in schools. Only 38% of parents surveyed felt sufficiently informed about activities involving churches or Christian organisations. Only one third of pupils knew they could opt out of these activities, with many saying they feared stigma if they did so. In its ruling on …

Havana slams new Trump sanctions as ‘collective punishment’ of Cuban people | Donald Trump News

Havana slams new Trump sanctions as ‘collective punishment’ of Cuban people | Donald Trump News

Published by Sam Flores

The Cuban government has firmly rejected the recent sanctions levied by US President Donald Trump. Published On 2 May 20262 May 2026 The Cuban government has firmly rejected new sanctions levied by United States President Donald Trump, calling them “unilateral coercive measures” intended to impose “collective punishment on the Cuban people”. In a post on social media on Friday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that “these measures are extraterritorial in nature and violate the United Nations Charter”, while further asserting that the US “has no right whatsoever to impose measures against Cuba or against third countries or entities”. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “While the US government represses its own people in the streets, it seeks to punish ours, who are heroically resisting the US imperialism’s attacks,” the foreign minister said. The Cuban minister’s remarks came hours after the White House signalled a further hardening of its policy towards the Caribbean island. Earlier on Friday, Trump issued an executive order to expand sanctions on the Cuban government, according to two White …

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

Published by skeptic

There are a few ways to wrap your head around watching a seven-and-a-half-hour movie. When I was a kid I used to mark time in “Roseannes,” where 30 minutes would equal one Roseanne—the run time of the sitcom. My junior hockey games were two Roseannes. The drive to my uncle’s was 12. A seven-and-a-half-hour movie is 15 Roseannes, or a flight from New York City to Paris in an economy seat with no headrest. It’s a long time to sit and watch a movie, or do anything, these days. But that didn’t stop 250-plus people from doing it on a recent early-spring Saturday in Manhattan. Sátántango, Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s 1994 miserabilist epic about a failed Hungarian farming collective, clocks in at 439 minutes. The centerpiece of Film at Lincoln Center’s Farewell to Béla Tarr program this week (the director died in January, age 70), the film is something of a holy rite for hardcore cinephiles. It is rarely screened, and rarely seen. Sitting still and watching a black-and-white movie for 7.5 hours is the …

Collective Climate Action Implemented by Los Angeles Arts Institutions

Collective Climate Action Implemented by Los Angeles Arts Institutions

Published by José Betancourt

In part a reaction to the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles just over one year ago, a number of the city’s most significant arts institutions issued a collective pledge to follow climate-minded guidelines known as the Bizot Green Protocol. Initiated in 2015 by the Bizot Group, a network of art museum directors from institutions around the world, the protocol has been amended and revised in the decade since, as catastrophes attributable to climate change have intensified. Institutions behind the newly issued pledge include the Getty, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Hammer Museum, and the blue-chip gallery Hauser & Wirth. Related Articles “This is the first time that Los Angeles art institutions have announced together their commitment to these recommendations, and it is our hope that it will motivate others to commit as well,” Camille Kirk, sustainability director at Getty, said in a press release. A joint statement from the collective reads: “Though not a direct cause, climate change was an exacerbating factor in the size and …

Wales to update collective worship school guidance

Wales to update collective worship school guidance

Published by Sam Flores

The National Secular Society has welcomed confirmation from the Welsh Government that it will update its guidance on collective worship in schools. The law in England and Wales requires children at all state-funded schools to “each school day take part in an act of collective worship”. Even in schools with no religious character, the worship must be “wholly or mainly of a Christian character”. A Supreme Court ruling last year found collective worship in Northern Ireland, where the law is similar, breaches children’s and parent’s rights to freedom of religion or belief under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), because it is not “objective, critical and pluralistic”. The court found the right of parents to withdraw children from collective worship is insufficient, because doing so could place “undue burden” on parents by exposing their nonreligious beliefs to the school community or leading them to being viewed as “difficult or awkward”. This week the Welsh Government told the NSS it will “give careful consideration to the issue and any potential implications for collective worship in …