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[Revised entry by Richard Cross on May 12, 2014. Changes to: Main text] First proposed by John Duns Scotus (1266 - 1308), a haecceity is a non-qualitative property responsible for individuation and identity. As understood by Scotus, a haecceity is not a bare particular in the sense of something underlying qualities. It is, rather, a non-qualitative property of a substance or thing: it is a "thisness"...
The Spanish Philosophy journal Teorema is pleased to announce an essay competition for young scholars. The winner will receive 1500€, and the essay will be published and acknowledged as winner in the journal. Topic: Belief Without Evidence It is a commonly held thought in contemporary epistemology that belief is ruled by evidence; a thought that underlies claims as diverse as that what one generally...
2014.05.12 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Jonathan Seglow, Defending Associative Duties, Routledge, 2013, 215pp., $125.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780415813105. Reviewed by Henry S. Richardson, Georgetown University This book sets out a general account of relationship-based duties. It then proceeds to develop instances of the account that apply to parents' duties to their children, to...
In the hands of Christopher Lasch, narcissism was distorted, obscured from its roots. A valuable idea was turned into a personality disorder… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Capitalism’s contradictions mean that the system will fail, says David Harvey. “The longer it goes on, the less likely that it will be a peaceful transition”… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
So much academic art history is turgid with jargon. That’s not Deborah Solomon. She’s got a different problem: a prurient obsession with Norman Rockwell’s sexuality… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
2014.05.13 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Christopher Heath Wellman, Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty, Oxford University Press, 2014, 261pp., $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199982189. Reviewed by Kristen Hessler, University at Albany, SUNY This is a collection of papers written by Christopher Heath Wellman over the last twenty years, including...
Dennis McKerlie (moral & political philosophy, ancient philosophy) was a longtime member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary; there is a brief memorial notice here, with a more complete obituary to follow. I will add a......
Marcia Baron, a leading moral philosopher who had moved to St. Andrews in 2012, has decided to return full-time to the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington, effective August 1. That's a significant retention for the Indiana Department....
We may find the spirituality of this great work questionable, but the humanity behind it and his continuing brilliance, is not Eliot at his best is one of the greatest of poets, but it is impossible to divorce much of the best of his work from the most despicable or disturbing parts of his life. We have to accept that art is alchemy, that memories, reading, love and fear fuse together, and are transmuted...
. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In March of 2014 popular astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson did a Nerdist Podcast. This did not garner much attention until May when some philosophers realized that Tyson was rather critical and dismissive of philosophy. As might be imagined, there was a response from the defenders of philosophy. Some critics went so far as to accuse him of being a philistine....
The philosopher, Rene Descartes, has said that it is possible to doubt all things except the existence of oneself (cogito ergo sum); that it cannot be doubted, despite how hard one endeavors. However, I am often questioning if that proposition is "truly" "indubitable". I desire to know if there have ever been any well-known or ancient philosophers who had not "concurred" with Rene Descartes regarding...
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A self-identified "analytic" philosopher in a non-English speaking country writes: I was wondering if you could ask the question below in your blog. The topic is very important to professional philosophers from outside the English-speaking world and they will most......
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2014.05.10 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Stephen C. Angle and Michael Slote (eds.), Virtue Ethics and Confucianism, Routledge, 2013, 271pp., $125.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780415815482. Reviewed by Hagop Sarkissian, The City University of New York, Baruch College This volume is the product of a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar "Traditions Into Dialogue:...
Roast swan – deep red, lean, lightly gamy, succulent – was a favored dish in the court of Henry VIII. Why don’t we eat it anymore?… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
The education of Eleanor Marx was conducted at her father’s knee. She was Karl’s creation, though a formidable intellectual in her own right… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...
Andrew Wyeth is misunderstood as a master of Thomas Kinkade-like kitsch. His work is melancholy and terrifying – nothing sentimental about it… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...