2014.05.26 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Christa Davis Acampora, Contesting Nietzsche, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 259pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226923901. Reviewed by Christopher C. Raymond, Vassar College "Greek antiquity," wrote Nietzsche in the summer of 1875, "is a means for understanding ourselves, for judging our own age and thereby overcoming...
This is powerfully written and deserves a careful reading....
Story here. (Thanks to Neil McCarthur for the pointer.)...
We touched on this issue a few years ago (and Prof. Cohen reported a dramatic change in referee behavior shortly thereafter), but it is apparently time for another friendly reminder of how important it is for solicited referees to suggest......
...a new project led by Samuel Newlands & Michael Rea (both Notre Dame) and Laurie Paul (North Carolina)....
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Can a person be a historian and a philosopher at the same time. I have a passion for history and a joint passion for Philosophy? Nathan V. Response from: Charles Taliaferro Yes The clearest case of when you would need to be both a historian and a philosopher is when you write a history of philosophy. Expertise in both fields would also be highly valuable in writing philosophy of history. Apart from...
Is judging a person by their intelligence analogous to racism? A person can't help the genetics that determines their intellectual capacity and the belief in the superiority of intelligent people seems to arguably be a basis for social inequalities. Response from: Charles Taliaferro Great question! Some preliminary thoughts: Racism seems to involve treating a group of persons who share an ethnic identity...
Is global justice still "hot"? If not, what is?...
This is the second in a series of polls I intend to run to gauge who is reading and where we are as a field. The proposed answers are obviously somewhat caricutured, please pick the one closest to your own......
[Revised entry by William Edward Morris and Charlotte R. Brown on May 21, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical works - A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 - 1740), the Enquiries concerning...
[Revised entry by Lydia Patton on May 21, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) participated in two of the most significant developments in physics and in the philosophy of science in the 19th century: the proof that Euclidean geometry does not describe the only possible visualizable and physical space, and the shift from physics based on actions between particles...
2014.05.24 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Allen Buchanan, The Heart of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2013, 320pp, $45.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199325382. Reviewed by George Letsas, University College London Allen Buchanan's book is a recent addition to the fast-growing field of the philosophy of human rights. The popularity of the field is hardly surprising. Since the...