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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Caruso & Levy discuss consciousness and moral responsibility... Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture...and a bit of poetry. Paid Advertisements Leiter Links My Personal Homepage My Academic Homepage Comments Policy for Leiter Reports My Facebook Page Brian Leiter University...
Please take a moment to send a postcard, to build on the momentum in the wake of Richard Martinez's plea for sanity about guns in this benighted country. And let's not forget the Australian experience. Real gun control works....
Go, the ancient board game, has long been a favorite of computer scientists. Yet no computer has yet defeated a top human player. Does it matter?… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
...has its debut. (There's an informative introduction to the project here.)...
The U.S. Department of Defense [sic] is concerned. (Thanks to Jim Klagge for the pointer.)...
This time from philosopher David McCabe (Colgate). It's nicely written and makes several good points. (Thanks to Reid Blackman for the pointer.)...
...or both. (Thanks to Michael Swanson for the pointer.)...
...for a project on "Pragmatic and Epistemic Role of Factually Erroneous Cognitions and Thoughts."...
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: "Death on a plane" Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture...and a bit of poetry. Paid Advertisements Leiter Links My Personal Homepage My Academic Homepage Comments Policy for Leiter Reports My Facebook Page Brian Leiter University of Chicago - Academia.edu My Nietzsche Blog...
From an unlikely (and not very admirable) source, but no harm in getting the message out there. (Thanks to Isaac Wagner for the pointer.)...
One interesting philosophical problem is known as the problem of other minds. The basic idea is that although I know I have a mind (I think, therefore I think), the problem is that I need a method by which to … Read more » ...
One of the great things about working in experimental philosophy is getting a chance to see all of the amazing stuff coming out of very junior researchers. As a faculty member, I sometimes feel that I am already kind of peripheral to the field and that the most cutting edge research is all being done by grad students. In part for that reason, I was thinking that it might be a good idea to put up...
2014.05.27 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and Benjamin W. Jarvis, The Rules of Thought, Oxford University Press, 2013, 354pp., $55.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199661800. Reviewed by Gurpreet Rattan, University of Toronto This book is about a lot of things, but fundamentally it is about the philosophy of philosophy. In it, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and Benjamin...
In Tahiti, Gauguin created the pristine world he wanted to experience, rather than the fallen one he found… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Capa, Gellhorn, Hemingway, et al.: For a talented young cohort, the Spanish Civil War offered a heady rush of idealism and opportunism… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Alain de Botton’s up. Altruistic genius or self-help huckster, the pop philosopher has gained a level of influence that’s difficult to deny… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Putting television and movie characters in the middle of an “existential crisis” seems to be all the rage these days. Unfortunately, what the producers of popular media tend to mean by “existential” can be dramatically different from how an actual existentialist might define that term. While those who study the ideas of Existentialism they might find it hopeful that Sartre’s ideas may finally be getting...
Or is there more to the story? Thoughts from European readers? Links to useful analyses also welcome. ADDENDUM: On the plus side, the openly fascist "Golden Dawn" in Greece did not do well....
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