Playing video games? No, I'm doing philosophy - The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/.../playing-video-games-no-i-m-doing-philosophy-1.3218...
Sep 19, 2017 - What would you say to the view that video games are inherently anti- philosophical
as they only ever deal with a representation of reality. Plato, for
example, gave us the allegory of the Cave where the prisoners –
representing the ignorant – spent their time staring at flickering
lights divorced from the real ...
Unthinkable: Is philosophy having an existential crisis? - The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/.../unthinkable-is-philosophy-having-an-existential-crisis-...
May 24, 2016 - Irish governments have been slow to draw on philosophers, argues Joseph Mahon. ... Joseph Mahon, who taught philosophy at NUI Galway from 1968 to 2013, is well used to the jibes. ... Contributors include Philip Pettit, Alasdair MacIntyre and Mahon’s son, James Edwin Mahon, who is a ...