dear sir/ madam i have studied aesthetic at university, but i would like to work on aesthetics for kids at elementary school and students of high school. i would really appreciate it if you could help me with this case and introduce me some books and resources, and also i would like to know if there is a specific philosopher who had worked on this case. best regards, H. Response from: Lisa Cassidy...
2014.05.16 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Russell Pannier and Thomas D. Sullivan, Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy: Arguments and Responses, Bloomsbury, 2014, 203pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781441170637. Reviewed by Tom Sorell, University of Warwick Russell Pannier and Thomas Sullivan argue that there is much of value in the philosophy of the past, and that arguments to the...
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Via IHE. I have not had a chance to examine this in detail yet....
This is funny, and could be aptly extended to debating intelligent design creationists, among other charlatans and shills. (Thanks to Michael Weisberg for the pointer.)...
Following up on last week's revival of the "hot topics" threads, let's try for comments on the 'hot topics' in philosophy of mind? Perception, the extended mind, the embodied mind? Comments are open....
Many readers have sent this story, which is appalling: see here and here for two accounts. UPDATE: A philosophy student at Saskatchewan writes: Regarding your most recent post about the University of Saskatchewan, academic freedom is unfortunately not the only......
English: Animated global map of monthly long term mean surface air temperature (Mollweide projection). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While science and philosophy are supposed to be about determining the nature of reality, politics is often aimed at creating perceptions that are alleged to be reality. This is why it is generally wiser to accept claims supported by science and reason over claims “supported”...
...but notwithstanding that, Mackie's INUS account of causation is the best we Humeans can do. (Thanks to Jaime Edwards for the pointer.)...
2014.05.14 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Kyoo Lee, Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad, Fordham University Press, 2013, 219pp., $24.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780823244850. Reviewed by Dennis L. Sepper, University of Dallas Has Descartes never been modern? The most appropriate end to postmodernism and its methods -- postmodernism is not, after all, simply anti-modern,...
Jonathan Swift was an early adopter of the maxim “Write what you know.” In his case, it was grotesque displays of bodily degradation… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
What makes a work of art an icon? Maybe a historical fluke. The “Mona Lisa” became famous when it was stolen, and popularity begets popularity… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Not long ago, Tim Parks settled in for a night of experimental theater. Five minutes later, he was bored silly. His dilemma: To bail or not to bail… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
2014.05.15 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Stefano Predelli, Meaning without Truth, Oxford University Press, 2013, 230pp., $55.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199695638. Reviewed by Brett Sherman, University of Rochester It is difficult to make significant theoretical progress without an adequate framework within which theories can be presented. The fruitfulness of truth-conditional semantics...
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A leading contributor to metaphysics and philosophy of mind over the past half-century, Professor Armstrong spent most of his career at the University of Sydney, though with visiting appointments all over the United States especially. I will post links to......
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In paradoxes such as the Epimenides 'liar' example, is it not sufficient to say that all such sentences are inherently contradictory and therefore without meaning? Like Chomsky's 'the green river sleeps furiously', it's a sentence, to be sure, but that's all it is. Thanks in advance :) Response from: Richard Heck Chomsky himself, if I remember correctly, once pointed out that "Colorless green ideas...