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PHILOSOPHY News, Feb 05, 2012

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World famous philosopher chairs Cumbrian student debate
News & Star
By Kelly Eve Education Reporter A world famous philosopher visited Cumbria for the first time this week to inspire 200 school pupils. Dr Peter Vardy, vice principal of Heythrop College at the University of London, chaired a one-day conference in ...
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News & Star
Irish to take attacking philosophy into Wales game
SI.com
DUBLIN (AP) -The names will be the same but the philosophy could well be very different when Ireland begins its Six Nations campaign by hosting an injury-ravaged Wales at Lansdowne Road. Sunday's match is a repeat of the World Cup quarterfinal in...
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What Moral Philosophy Tells Us About Income Inequality
The Atlantic
But, these two principles don't suggest how one might start with an unjustworld, and then make it increasingly fairer to reach the ideal. There is no "undo" button in the real world for injustices that have already been committed. As a philosopher ...
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The Atlantic
On The Inadequacy Of The Empiricist Tradition In Western Philosophy
NPR (blog)
On to logical positivism: "Only those statements (about the world) are meaningful which are empirically verifiable," which, ironically drove Western philosophy, yet whose founding statement just noted is not itself empirically verifiable.
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Politics, economics and philosophy in the Nigerian context
Vanguard
This is based on finding how Nigeria is where it is today among other nations of theworld. Questions are often asked, and justifiably so, on why Nigeria is still a poor country in the midst of abundant human and material resources.
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Schopenhauer; philosopher of culture and virtue
Iran Book News Agency
And while Kant thought that the will is the truth of the world and it equals freedom, Schopenhauer opposes this view by calling freedom as lack pure reason. He continued: "As a philosopher Schopenhauer had realized the boredom and monotony of quotidian ...
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Iran Book News Agency
Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83
New York Times
Dr. Sulloway, an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, described Mr. Cioffi as “a Gregor Mendel figure” in the world of Freud debunkers, referring to the Austrian scientist who pioneered genetics but received no ...
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New philosophy to put showbiz at the fore
Sydney Morning Herald
However, Melton said the club's ''football philosophy'' was rapidly evolving and a new coach was instrumental to that end. ''We're in a tough town, this is the toughest sporting landscape in the world and there's 19 or 20 professional franchises,'' he ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
New lectures diversify Philosophy Department
Whitman Pioneer
“Philosophy is often considered a discipline full of old, white men. But these classes remind us that philosophy exists all over the world . . . It's exciting to see the department trying to diversify and emphasize a wider perspective,” she said.
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LONDON CALLING: World title failure fires Rowbotham
This Is Wiltshire
It's a sentiment that has become deeply ingrained in the 30-year-old's philosophy as he and his teammates prepare to compete in the quadruple sculls at London 2012. This is because the foursome have the proverbial monkey on their back that no amount of ...
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The right philosophy
Fiji Times
Today's world is so fast changing that what was new yesterday becomes obsolete today and what is new today becomes out of date tomorrow. So ask yourself a very simple question: Can we survive in a society like this without education.
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Pat Churchland fights for supremacy of the brain
Vancouver Sun (blog)
They went on to teach philosophy and neuroscience at the University of Manitoba before being scooped up by the US university. Together, the combative academic stars have been working to shake up the world of science, religion, philosophy and ethics.
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Vancouver Sun (blog)
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
Brooklyn Rail
by John Ganz It could almost be a proverb: The difference between the United States and Europe is that in Europe a philosopher can have a television show. The Germanphilosopher Peter Sloterdijk hosts just such a weekly talk show.
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FoxSoccer.com MANUEL BARCIA
FOXSports.com
In principle, this not a major problem for sports - athletes have all the right of this world to talk and demonstrate their beliefs. Occasionally, however, these displays can be troublesome, for reasons that rank fromphilosophical to behavioral.
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FOXSports.com
General Philosophy of Thomas More's Utopia
Asian Tribune
Socialism (added with liberalism) perhaps in its broadest sense of the term might be the viable philosophy that can unite the people in the North and the South, transcending their narrow ethno-nationalism. But the primary objective of socialism is much ...
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Facebook's 'Letter from Zuckerberg': The Annotated Version
Wired News (blog)
It discusses the company's business and technological philosophy and what Zuckerberg calls its “social mission” — ie, “to make the world more open and connected.” Statements like these serve as a manifesto, a declaration, a founding document for the ...
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Wired News (blog)
Tracing Gandhi in Joburg
Joburg
It was in Johannesburg that world leader Mahatma Gandhi developed his satyagraha philosophy. This story is told at an exhibition at Museum Africa. AN in-depth story of the life of a religious man, a philosopher and an activist for free society, ...
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Joburg
Global Epic on Karma to Benefit World's First Museum of Buddhism and Yoga
ChakraNews.com
To help everyone with their New Year's resolutions, complimentary digital downloads are being offered of the most ambitious international film ever made on Eastern philosophy – 'Karma Yoga: The New Revolution'. Filmed all over the world in India ...
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ChakraNews.com
Breaking down TU's 2012 football recruiting class
Tulsa World
Tulsa World file By ERIC BAILEY World Sports Writer Tulsa focused on areas that will soon be hit by graduation (offensive line, defensive secondary) while keeping itsphilosophy of recruiting speed. Bill Blankenship's second recruiting class stayed ...
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Stone Links
New York Times (blog)
He teaches philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. To contact the editors of The Stone, send an e-mail to opinionator@nytimes.com. Please include “The Stone” in the subject field. A fifth of the world's population lives without ...
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Is Canada helping the world's poor, or Canadian companies?
Ottawa Citizen
The joint projects between some Canadian mining companies and NGOs to do development work near where mines operate are part of this philosophy. Many have questioned who really benefits from this policy - Canadian companies and shareholders, the world's ...
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Potshots from a sceptical scientist
Irish Times
He gives an excellent introduction to each hypothesis, describing how it developed in the context of the history and philosophy of science. Questioning how such hypotheses harden into accepted truths, he invites the reader to consider alternative world ...
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Irish Times
PU organises seminar on philosophy of martydrom
Business Recorder (blog)
The issue of whether US will rule the world or not, would be determined in the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. It was our responsibility to realise the threat because only those nations, which prepare themselves for the inevitable ...
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Respect Dignity of Life, Desert 'Star Wars'
The International News Magazine
BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) - In a variation of the legendary slogan "make love, not war", an eminent Buddhist philosopher is calling for a nuclear-free world in which genuine human security, sustainable development and unwavering respect for the dignity of ...
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130 Years After His Birth, We Still Live in FDR's World
Huffington Post
This new "philosophy," which included the embrace of Keynesian economic policy, stood at the root of what President Obama has correctly called the post-1945 creation of the "strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.
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In Honor of Ken Wilber: The Philosopher of Everything | Andrew ...
By Andrew Cohen
Put differently, I sought a world philosophy. I sought an integral philosophy, one that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world's great ...
Andrew Cohen
3:AM Magazine » Philosophy as the Great Naïveté
By Susan Tomaselli
The talk of “crisis” falsely suggests that there is something new about the issue of the relevance of philosophical work. Hannah Arendt is right when she describes as unavoidable the question, “How can anything relevant for the world we live in ...
3:AM Magazine
Jagdeo conferred with honorary doctorate of philosophy
By admin
Jagdeo conferred with honorary doctorate of philosophy. February 4 ... “There are very few heads of government in the world who understand the scientific, economic and social dimensions of climate change like President Jagdeo. His sense ...
Guyana Times - The Beacon of Truth
Facebook's Philosophy | TightWind
By Kyle Baxter
Facebook's Philosophy. February 2nd, 2012. Mark Zuckerberg's letter to investors in Facebook's IPO filing solidified how they think about the world: People sharing more – even if just with their close friends or families – creates a more open ...
TightWind
Anyone who is serious about saving the world ....... - Atlas Shrugs
By Pamela Geller
Anyone who is serious about saving the world ....... What is needed, what is required in America now, is a philosophical war. The futile and exhausting political games we are subjected to on a daily basis are nothing more than propaganda ...
Atlas Shrugs
The ascetic aesthetic | Superfluities Redux
By George Hunka
Where philosophy ends, art begins. In a sense, after Schopenhauer's “Nothing,” the word which concludes The World as Will and Representation, there is the emergence of the chord that opens Tristan und Isolde. It is not therefore a philologist ...
Superfluities Redux
Political Theory - Habermas and Rawls: Book on "Kant and ...
By Thomas Gregersen
The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld (Cambridge University Press, December 2011) 232 pages. Description This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal,...
Political Theory - Habermas and Rawls
daily sun | Metro Polis | 'Gandhi's philosophy can help overcome ...
Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique on Monday said cultural crisis has become one of the major problems in the world. “Mahatma Gandhi's (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) humanitarian philosophy could be ...
daily sun
Black Sun: Jewish philosophy...or the sick and the healthy
By billoo
Common sense action: "we are responsible for what we have thought and done in the past, responsible now, intellectually and practically, and that is what makes us thinkers, rational agents in a world at all. Posted by billoo at 11:47 PM ...
Black Sun
Brazil's Soccer Philosopher King | Play Ball
By Zach Richards
Brazil's Soccer Philosopher King. January 30th, 2012 | Author: ... The 1982 Brazilian team that he captained was perhaps the greatest never to win the World Cup (along with Hungary in 1954 and Holland in 1974). It was also one of the last ...
Play Ball
The World Is An Illusion?: Philosophy Forums
The idea is found in most religions that I can think of, and it's also found in mostphilosophical traditions (West, East); the idea can even be said to be the ...
forums.philosophyforums.com/.../the-world-is-an-illusion-515...
Philosophy & The Modern World | Independent Colleges - Diploma ...
This new and fascinating course is designed as a practical and accessible introduction to contemporary critical thinking for those who are interested in.
www.independentcolleges.ie/.../philosophy-the-modern-world
philosophy « Cannonball Read IV
For anyone who has not yet entered De Botton's philosophical world via his writings, A Week at the Airport is short enough, at a little over 100 pages, and put ...
cannonballread4.wordpress.com/tag/philosophy/
UC Philosophy Class on Harry Potter Conjures Popular Appeal
When he began watching the movies and reading the books in earnest, he soon found many philosophical references and issues inside Potter's world. In class ...
www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=15037
Chinese Philosophy in the Western World | 中国制造 Made in China
He combined these books with his own ideas to make what would be called Confucianism – a philosophical system studied all over the world. Within China this ...
djcadchina.wordpress.com/.../chinese-philosophy-in-the-weste...
Exploring The Real 'Conflict': Science Vs. Naturalism | KQED Public ...
And I'm sort of delighted to see that Christianity is doing much better in thephilosophical world now, than it was when I began in philosophy. MARTIN: You have...
www.kqed.org/.../exploring_the_real_conflict_science_vs_nat...
philosophy for young men « Kid in a Man's World
Little did my mom know that she was advocating a practice of Stoicism, a philosophicalschool of thought. Stoics are major proponents of the idea of “ negative ...
kidinamansworld.com/tag/philosophy-for-young-men/
Fickle Philosophy | Intro to Women's Lit: Adventures in Form
It is with this topic that makes me question how this will apply to our world, specifically in the field of philosophy. Cavendish even targets this area when she ...
kleunerteachingspring2012.wordpress.com/.../fickle-philosoph...
From Troubles of The World | love's philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river. And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever. With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, ...
fromtroublesofthisworld.wordpress.com/tag/loves-philosophy/
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Peter Ludlow: "Is it time to ...
A broad range of topics are on offer, but we end up going to talks in our individual areas. There are other options for philosophical breadth, not least is the World ...
leiterreports.typepad.com/.../peter-ludlow-is-it-time-to-dissolve...
  
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