While in Indonesia in 2011, photographer David Slater’s camera was grabbed by a macaque. While monkey shines are nothing new, this monkey took hundreds of shots including some selfies that went viral on the internet. As many things often do, this incident resulted in a legal controversy over the copyright status of the photos. The United States copyright office recently ruled that “Works produced...
[New Entry by Jan van Eijck and Rineke (L.C.) Verbrugge on September 8, 2014.] Social procedures that have algorithmic aspects can often be improved by redesign. This holds for voting and other peaceful decision making procedures, for match-making, for auctioning, for fair division of estates, and for many procedures of distributive justice. The algorithmic aspects can be analyzed with formal methods....
2014.09.11 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Michael L. Morgan, Fackenheim's Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction, University of Toronto Press, 2013, 399pp., $34.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781442612662. Reviewed by Michael Zank, Boston University Students of philosophy may be familiar with Emil Fackenheim as the author of a book on Hegel's philosophy of religion.[1] Students of Jewish philosophy...
2014.09.12 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Edward Feser, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Editiones Scholasticae, 2014, 302pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 97838683854441. Reviewed by Paul Symington, Franciscan University of Steubenville Thomists look to the thought of Thomas Aquinas, his major interpreters, and Aristotle for guidance in addressing a full range of perennial...
2014.09.10 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Allen W. Wood, The Free Development of Each: Studies on Freedom, Right and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2014, 330pp., $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199685530. Reviewed by Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto Allen Wood's new book has two aims. First, it is a series of twelve essays on Kant and his successors,...
How did creativity – a contemporary obsession – transform from a way of being to a way of doing, from an internal liveliness to an external compulsion to make things?… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Once broad and expansive, the humanities are now reserved for narrow academic purists. Just look what happened to the philology… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
College at 15, marriage at 17, a son at 19: What does that suggest about Susan Sontag? “Eagerness to grow up. I hated being a child”… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
2014.09.09 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Marina Berzins McCoy, Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2013, 228pp., $99.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199672783. Reviewed by Håkan Tell, Dartmouth College Marina Berzins McCoy sets out to explore philosophically the concept of human vulnerability in Greek thought. Vulnerability...
Job List: Americas Name of institution: University at Albany (State University of New York) Town: Albany, NY Country: . . . Continue reading . . . News source: Jobs In Philosophy ...
Picture of Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Since I received my doctorate from the Ohio State University, I usually feel a tiny bit of unjustified pride when I hear that OSU is #1 in some area. However, I recently found out that OSU is #1 in that the school is the most unequal public university in America. The basis for this claim is that between 2010 and 2012...
Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Cambridge Town: Cambridge Country: United Kingdom . . . Continue reading . . . News source: Jobs In Philosophy ...
[Revised entry by Carl Huffman on May 28, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Pythagoras, one of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, lived from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE. He spent his early years on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey. At the age of forty, however, he emigrated to the city of Croton in southern Italy and most of his philosophical activity...
[Revised entry by Sarah Pessin on May 28, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] A visionary thinker and prolific author, Moses Maimonides (1135/8-1204) writes on topics ranging from physics to Jewish Law, theology to politics, psychology to Biblical exegesis, and from philosophy to medicine. Rich and complex in their own right, Maimonides' writings must, however, be understood within...
Maya Angelou, memoirist, poet, calypso dancer, actress, civil-rights activist, professor, is dead. She was 86… NY Times… LA Times… Wash Post… NPR… WSJ… USA Today… CNN… Telegraph… Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
2014.05.31 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Claude Romano, Event and Time, Stephen E. Lewis (tr.), Fordham University Press, 2014, 269pp., $32.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780823255344. Reviewed by Andrea Staiti, Boston College Claude Romano is one of the leading figures in contemporary French phenomenology. He has published extensively on the subject, and his work has recently drawn the...
2014.05.32 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Sean Gaston, The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, 241pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781783480012. Reviewed by J. Colin McQuillan, St. Mary's University (TX) Sean Gaston has written a book that traces the concept of world from Kant to Derrida. Between these two termini, he discusses Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger....
Beethoven is legend, myth, among history’s greatest artists. But he was also irritable, erratic, and plagued by gastrointestinal issues… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Wine has always been more than a beverage. “I put my nose in the glass and feel time and space grinding to a halt”… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
See here. They had been largely alone among leading PhD programs in not requiring it, though I gather many students submitted it anyway (unsurprisingly, given that peer programs did require it). I would guess that, like most major programs, the......