Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy
Marianne Janackbooks, stories, essays: philosophical, literary, and just plain fun
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Utopias, Dystopias, and Lessons Learned from Mice
The online journal 3 Quarks Daily just published this article I wrote about a famous experiment that, 50+ years ago, seemed to predict the horrors that might follow from overpopulation.
Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some phil...
Place, Space, and Land: Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about maps, colonialism and valuing
I imagine that the idea of space didn’t originate with Descartes, but that’s where our story will begin. In Descartes’s Meditations he defines bodies as res extensa (extended things)—ie. things that take up space. And in Cartesian mathemati...
Grades, schmades
Just about everyone I know who knows that I’m a professor asks me about AI: how are faculty guarding against students misusing it? How are we thinking about our assignments? Are students using AI to cheat? Can we check to make sure that the...
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay
Those of us of a certain age can remember the scary story of Art Linkletter’s daughter’s death after a “bad trip”. David Foster Wallace warns about the dangers of addiction: to drugs, to entertainment, and to forms of escapism.
Marianne Ja...
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout:
The opening epigram of Elizabeth Strout’s latest book is from Carl Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain view...
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I teach philosophy at Hamilton College and also have an MFA in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop.
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