2014.05.21 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Corine Pelluchon, Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism: Another Reason, Another Enlightenment, Robert Howse (tr.), SUNY Press, 2014, 309pp, $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781438449678. Reviewed by Samuel Goldman, George Washington University The last twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth of scholarship on Leo Strauss. Once discussed...
Here is Proust, here Jean Rhys, here Milton. Linda Grant’s library has been her life. Eventually it will be what relatives have to haul away… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Duke Ellington may have lacked the technical brilliance of a Fats Waller or Art Tatum; his solos could be flat. But he was unrivaled as a bandleader… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Beware those who think marriage military inclusion a few queers on TV = rainbow nirvana. Not so, says Suzanna Walters. Tolerance is a trap… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
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This is the first 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......
You don't even have to teach at NYU to be on it!...
As a professor at Florida A&M University, I am rather familiar with performance based funding in higher education. While performance based funding is being considered or applied in numerous states, I will focus on my adopted state of Florida (it is also present in my home state of Maine). On the face of it, performance based funding can sound like a good idea: state universities are funded based...
[Revised entry by Bruce Russell on May 19, 2014. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A priori justification is a type of epistemic justification that is, in some sense, independent of experience. Gettier examples have led most philosophers to think that having a justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge (see sec. 5, below, and the example, Sheep), but many still believe that it is necessary....
I've previously cited epistemic nihilism as an example of an intellectual black hole -- a view that rational agents must reject in order to preserve their capacity for rationality. But the normative nihilist might seek to avoid this implication by offering up a non-normative account of rationality (and epistemology more broadly). One could just stipulate a certain extensional account of...
These poems are about old age and regret, but also poetic structure and art. After them, there was nothing much left to say The greatness of the Four Quartets lies partly in their abstract considerations, but also in the way that they are so particular in their imagery. They are poems of long walks in the English countryside, and boating off the north-eastern US and of London in gloomy threatened peace...
2014.05.19 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility, MIT Press, 2014, 474pp., $35.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780262525473. Reviewed by Joshua Shepherd, University of Oxford This is the fourth volume in Walter Sinnott-Armstrong's moral psychology series. The structure is as follows: ten target articles,...
Florence Josephine Mastin personifies the promise of a time when even a middling poet could find a large audience. She couldn’t exist today… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Drunken Irishmen, crafty Jews, lazy Africans: Race has always been a convenient way to explain inequality. The genome era is no different… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
More than a dualist, Descartes was a dinner-table raconteur, a student of animals, snowflakes, crystals, mathematics, music, and optics… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
2014.05.20 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Uwe Steinhoff, On the Ethics of Torture, SUNY Press, 2013, 191pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781438446226. Reviewed by Gregory Fried, Suffolk University Torture is a problem from hell. Confronting torture seriously means weighing some of our most cherished principles and traditions against threats that once might have seemed fantastical but after...
Hello philosophers, I have yet another question. This time it's on the fundamental foundations of mathematics. I would like to know what Gödel's incompleteness theorem and inconsistency theorem actually stated. Intuitively, math seems logical, in the physical world, if you have two inanimate objects say two pencils laying on the table is it not logical that if you take one away you are only left with...
Big data’s predictive powers will transform our existence but will go on to inhibit the very behaviors necessary for social innovation… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Misused words, abused grammar, sloppy syntax: English might seem in decline. But woot! Recognize the persistence of slang… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...