Where else could you learn the latest black-hole theory, hear unfettered political debate and dance to Hot Chip? We report from the alternative festival at Hay-on-Wye The misty town of Hay-on-Wye may have seen a decline in the number of bookshops it is famed for from 35 to little more than a dozen in the past decade, but no one could deny that its artistic and intellectual output is prodigious. Hay...
They seem to like it more than metaphysics! With over 2000 votes cast, 55% said "history of philosophy is philosophy," being a "central, foundational part of the discipline," with another 25% deeming it an "important area of research"--so fully 80%......
Remember this travesty when he runs for higher office. UPDATE: Another case of prosecutorial abuse by Mr. Vance's office. (Thanks to David Malament for the pointer.)...
We live at a point in history at which the demand for individual freedom has never been stronger — or more potentially dangerous. For this demand — the product of good things, such as the refusal to submit to arbitrary … Read more » ...
[Revised entry by Joan Moschovakis on May 23, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Intuitionistic logic encompasses the principles of logical reasoning which were used by L. E. J. Brouwer in developing his intuitionistic mathematics, beginning in [1907]. Because these principles also underly Russian recursive analysis and the constructive analysis of E. Bishop and his followers, intuitionistic...
I have 17 years I am really into philosophy . I would give everything to go and study it . But there is one problem. My parents doesn't know where can philosophy take me(job , career ) . I never thought about it so if you could help me PLS Response from: Lisa Cassidy Dear Friend - I have a couple of ideas about careers, but we can get to that in a minute. Since you are already a fan of philosophy,...
My old post on 'Reasons-Talk and Fitting Attitudes' [along with my PQ paper] sets out the basic case for taking fittingness (or fitting reasons, in contrast to either value or value-based reasons) as our sole normative primitive. My follow-up post on state-given "reasons" explains how the fittingness view accommodates the datum that it's more important to...
[Revised entry by Ralph McInerny and John O'Callaghan on May 23, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that had obtained for centuries. This crisis flared...
Judge Allows Military to Force-Feed Guantánamo Detainee. The judge insists that "The court simply cannot let Mr. Dhiab die." This despite the fact that Dhiab has autonomously (and, in the circumstances, I would think entirely rationally) chosen to go on a hunger strike, and obviously does not consent to be violently force-fed by his captors.This naturally raises the question: Does...
An interesting-looking collection of essays, including one by Piketty & Saenz. (Thanks to Karl Gaudyn for the pointer.)...
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...at 3AM. I found this part of the interview particularly striking, and I suspect Prof. Dawes's observations are accurate: 3:AM: David Chalmers has done a survey that suggests that although most philosophers are atheists most philosophers of religion are not......
Philosophers/psychologists Andrei Cimpian, Ian Harmon, and Zachary Horne (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) write: We are interested in conducting a linguistic analysis of the arguments used to defend fallibilism and infallibilism about knowledge. Our hope is to analyze the top papers defending each......
While the patent for an e-cigarette like device dates back to 1965, it is only fairly recently that e-cigarettes (e-cigs) have become popular and readily available. Thanks, in part, to the devastating health impact of traditional cigarettes, there is considerable … Read more » ...
It seems to me that much contemporary philosophy is a bit obsessed with clarifying arguments and analyzing statements and lacks real wisdom about the world. For example, I can imagine a typical situation where an ordinary person asks a professional philosopher a question relating to an applied ethics question. The philosopher answers by analysing the component parts of the statements contained within...
Can being constantly surrounded by ugly things and people ruin own's sense of the aesthetic? Conversely, can constantly being surrounded by beautiful things and people ruin own's sense of the aesthetic? Response from: Nickolas Pappas As long as you mean something straightforward by "sense of the aesthetic," like "sense of taste" or "discernment regarding beauty," I think most people would consider...
2014.05.25 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Gianni Vattimo and Michael Marder (eds.), Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics, Bloomsbury, 2014, 189pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781441105943. Reviewed by Shaul Magid, Indiana University Bloomington Deconstruction: A strategy of critical analysis associated with the French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004),...
“It is an arduous thing to plead against abuses of a power which originate from your own country,” said Burke. By that standard, David Bromwich has had a very arduous decade… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
In which an inveterate punster, after a lifetime of wordplay, enters the Pun-Off World Championships. And completely chokes… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Rise of the shelfie. Part literary criticism, part memoir, these books can feel like stunts. But they reveal something essential about the way we read now… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...