PHILOSOPHY News, Jul 08, 2012

In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis ... The Guardian Stuart Kelly finds ideal company is which to exercise his mind. See all stories on this topic »

Stone Links: The Rise of Café Philosophy New York Times (blog) If philosophical debate as we know it began with Socrates' freewheeling peregrinations through the Athenian Agora, today it's primarily a highly specialized discipline practiced by professionals within the Ivory Tower. Jules Evans, however, thinks he ... See all stories on this topic »

The complete history of philosophy visualized in one graph io9 Simon Raper of Drunks&Lampposts has compiled a mesmerizing graph that charts the entire history of philosophy. By extracting information from the "influenced by" sections in Wikipedia, he was able to visually convey an overarching web of philosophical ... See all stories on this topic »

Philosophers pause to ponder at UOW Illawarra Mercury Hundreds of philosophers from 15 countries have flocked to Wollongong for the six-day event, which will showcase more than 200 papers on everything from the ethics of extinction to teachingphilosophy to schoolchildren. Conference organiser Dr Patrick ... See all stories on this topic »

Philosophy, flying from the shelves and landing in pizzerias. The Fortnightly Review Lord Maurice Glasman, Ed Miliband's favourite philosopher, turned up at the Green Man pub in Euston, north London, two minutes before the start of a recent meeting, downed a double espresso and a Red Bull, then launched into a bewitching monologue on ... See all stories on this topic »

Conservative Wonderboy Grows Up, Embraces Obamacare and Philosophy The Atlantic Wire "I started getting into philosophy — Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant and lots of other Germanphilosophers. And then into present philosophers — Saul Kripke, David Chalmers. It was really reading philosophy that didn't have anything to do with politics ... See all stories on this topic »

Review by Christian Perring Metapsychology The Philosopher's Lover Review - The Philosopher's Lover by John Mullen Terpsichore, 2011. Review by Christian Perring Jul 3rd 2012 (Volume 16, Issue 27). Philosophy professor Mack Davies is having an affair with one of his students, Carol Piccone, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Missing Shade of Blue, By Jennie Erdal The Independent Set in Edinburgh and presided over by the benign ghost of David Hume, the Enlightenmentphilosopher and good-natured sceptic who argued that reason is - and ought to be – a slave to the passions, Erdal's novel niftily stitches ideas about happiness ... See all stories on this topic »

The bald truth about p*rn Lifesite De Botton, a best-selling Swiss-British essayist and pop philosopher, does have a very high brow. The prominence of the brow, with its implications of prefrontal cortical brilliance, enjoys a healthy philosophical provenance, as illustrated in this ... See all stories on this topic » Lifesite

Are You An Evolutionary? Huffington Post I also think that the discovery of evolution is the greatest cultural, philosophical, and spiritual event in the last few hundred years. I think its overall influence is destined, in the long run, to be seen alongside some of our culture's most ... See all stories on this topic »

Leo Strauss vs. the Future The League of Ordinary Gentlemen Kojève is fascinating, one of those major figures in philosophical-political history you never seem to hear of. [Hell, James Madison doesn't have a memorial, isn't on a coin or anything anymore since they killed the $5000 bill. But we digress ... See all stories on this topic » The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

John Roberts: Liberal Hero? CounterPunch The connection to philosophical understandings is even more attenuated. This is a consequence of the accelerating decrepitude of our political culture. This fact is relevant for understanding one of last month's more remarkable developments: the ... See all stories on this topic »

Is Our Patriotism Moral? New York Times (blog) But the philosophical problem of patriotism is not about whether or not certain expressions of patriotism are appropriate; it is about the moral defensibility of the attitude as such. (For a good survey of the philosophical issues see Igor Primoriz's ... See all stories on this topic »

Making themselves heard The Hindu The philosopher John Searle is said to have given the strongest possible argument against the Turing Test and the idea that machines can think. He proposed a scenario in which he himself did exactly what a Chinese-speaking conversation program would ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

Why I'd Make a Good Atheist Patheos (blog) I began reading Western philosophy in high school, but my real philosophical awakening came on a trip to Thailand in 1997, coming to learn more and more about Buddhism. I found myself wishing for many things, getting them in turn, and still not being ... See all stories on this topic »

Abortion, the Economy, and the 2012 Election American Thinker The first claim stands no credible chance of denial on biological or philosophical grounds. The newly conceived being (generally) possesses 46 chromosomes, setting him or her off biologically as a genetically unique member of the human species rather ... See all stories on this topic »

@GeorgeWashington, or what would the Founders tweet? UC Berkeley (blog) Philosophers should have discovered this by now but the fact is that all of the most famousphilosophers in history are men, and John Stuart Mill is the only philosopher in over 2000 years of the history of philosophy to write and speak out forcefully ... See all stories on this topic »

Defining 'conservative internationalism' The Interpreter One of the first things a senior bureaucrat told me about the Howard Government's foreign policy was that I'd need to reverse engineer its philosophical approach from its actions because Howard and his ministers were not into making big defining ... See all stories on this topic »

Berlau Column: Let's Not Forget the Progressives Like Bill Maher Who Bullied ... NewsBusters (blog) One is, since according to Politico he is reading philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, he should also pick up the philosophic works of John Locke and Adam Smith (who was a moral philosopher before an economist) to learn about ... See all stories on this topic »

Original 'Philosopher's Stone' manuscript news story re-released ... In honor of yesterday's 15th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone being published, UK newspaper The Guardian has released a scan of thei. www.hypable.com/.../the-guardian-re-releases-original-philoso...

The University of Maine - UMaine News - Philosopher's Column ... Philosopher's Column Discusses Values, Money. An opinion column in the Bangor Daily News by University of Maine professor of philosophy Michael Howard ... umaine.edu/.../philosophers-column-discusses-values-money/

Physicalism // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ... It is somewhat incongruous that Daniel Stoljar's book Physicalism is part of Routledge's New Problems of Philosophy series, for physicalism, as Stoljar's quote ... ndpr.nd.edu/news/31706-physicalism/

The history of philosophical influence... - Leiter Reports (Thanks to philosopher Dave Richardson for the pointer.) ... News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual ... leiterreports.typepad.com/.../the-history-of-philosophical-influ...

Famous philosopher Charles Taylor talks to graduates of UCU about ... Do not forget that sometimes patriotism can be dangerous. We need patriotism that is able to renew the society. When looking to the future, one should not. ucu.edu.ua/eng/news/1080/

Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays // Reviews // Notre ... The question is whether this good news provides adequate reassurance against philosophicalskepticism. Burge thinks that, by itself, it doesn't. Stroud agrees, if ... ndpr.nd.edu/.../31831-philosophers-past-and-present-selected-...

'America the Philosophical,' by Carlin Romano - SFGate He locates evidence of America's philosophical dynamism in everything from First Amendment debates to our 24-hour news channels, and he discusses a herd ... www.sfgate.com/.../America-the-Philosophical-by-Carlin-Rom...

Al-Saji edits new Feminist section of Philosophy Compass ... This is great news for feminist philosophers, especially since Philosophy Compass aims to be a guide offering a survey of the field with attention to “what is ... feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/.../al-saji-edits-new-femin...

Why did a Christian philosopher of religion convert to hinduism ... I was googling "Michael Sudduth", the name of a well-known philosopher of religion, ... Thephilosophy profession's finest news source; Feminist Philosophers ... www.newappsblog.com/.../why-did-a-christian-philosopher-of...

Slavoi Zizek, left, Slovenian philosopher and culture critic, ... Philosopher's visit to dead workers' altar: Slavoi Zizek, left, Slovenian philosopher and culture critic, talks with Ssangyong Motor union head Kim Jeong-woo at a ... https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/.../115_114163.html

Philosopher wins libel case against prosecutor | The Budapest Times A Budapest court ruled in favour of liberal philosopher János Kis on Monday in a ... 1956, 2010 In Review: Economy, 2010 In Review: News, 2011 In Review ... www.budapesttimes.hu/.../philosopher-wins-libel-case-against-...

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery The paintings of Joseph Wright, called the "painter of light" by one of his biographers, provide a breathtaking chronicle of early scientific "outreach" activities. www.huffingtonpost.com/.../a-philosopher-giving-a-lecture-o...

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