Feminist Studies published a new issue online today: “Re-inventing Mothers: A Special Issue.” According to the editors, “Throughout this issue of Feminist Studies, with its attention chiefly on new reproductive technologies and changing patterns of motherhood, differences between women according to nationality, ‘race’/ethnicity, and social class clearly structure women’s life trajectories.” The issue features five new scholarly articles, as well as fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, an art essay, and a review essay. Published in print…
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Minor Tweaks, Major Payoffs: The Problems and Promise of Situationism in Moral Philosophy, by Hagop Sarkissian (Baruch College, CUNY) was published in Philosopher’s Imprint today. According to the author, Moral philosophers of late have been examining the implications of experimental social psychology for ethics. The focus of attention has been on situationism—the thesis that we routinely underestimate the extent to which minor situational variables influence morally significant behavior. Situationism has been seen as a threat…
We’re pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review, an international, refereed, open-access journal published in collaboration between Hampshire College and the University of Michigan Library. The TAP Review is devoted to the discussion of historic and contemporary photography from Asia. The inaugural issue features a wide range of content, including: A forum of 13 scholars, artists, and thinkers responding to the question, “Why Asian Photography?” Articles on the…
A new article was published today in Philosophy & Theory in Biology: Evolutionary Chance Mutation: A Defense of the Modern Synthesis’ Consensus View, by Francesca Merlin, University of Montréal. According to the article’s abstract, One central tenet of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (1930s-1950s), and the consensus view among biologists until now, is that all genetic mutations occur by “chance” or at “random” with respect to adaptation. However, the discovery of some molecular mechanisms enhancing mutation…
Philosopher’s Imprint, one of SPO’s longest running open access journals, published two new articles today. “Ceteris Paribus Laws: Generics and Natural Kinds,” by Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University and “PSR,” by Michael Della Rocca, Yale University. Philosophers’ Imprint is a refereed series of original papers in philosophy, edited by Stephen Darwall and J. David Velleman, with the advice of an international Board of Editors. The Imprint is not restricted to any particular field or school of…
The Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce the publication of Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study, a digital publication featuring a new analysis of the controversial case against Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department official suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, and ultimately convicted of perjury in 1950. Hiss had been a rising star in the liberal foreign policy establishment, accompanying President Roosevelt to Yalta, hand-delivering the…