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Ridicule in philosophy, a preliminary analysis...or on philosophical style 27 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
Some of our very best philosophers engage in effective, polemical ridicule: Carnap on Heidegger Burnyeat on Strauss But there is also: Derrida on Searle Now, reflection on this very small sample....
Cleanthes' Irregular Argument, reconsidered.... 27 Aug 2013 | 10:43 am
Let me here observe too, continued CLEANTHES, that this religious argument, instead of being weakened by that scepticism so much affected by you, rather acquires force from it, and becomes more firm a...
Best practices for the new academic year 26 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
Tips from the history of pedagogy. (H/t to Jocelyn Waite)
Are we intuitive Intelligent Design creationists? Insights from Hume and the cognitive science of religion 26 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
In many respects, Hume was a cognitive scientist of religion avant la lettre: his Natural history of religion, Enquiry and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion contain bold hypotheses about the origi...
On Leo Strauss and the Philosophers 26 Aug 2013 | 03:54 pm
"Strauss' interpretation of Plato is wrong from beginning to end." M.F. Burnyeat. Although we philosophers are thought of as a cerebral bunch, our loathings can be pretty intense. I need not mention ...
No hard-sell of philosophy? 25 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
At a banquet dinner in honor of Adam Smith's 300th birthday I ended up sitting next to the local Head of the Chamber of Commerce of the Fife (the region that includes Smith's birth-place, Kirckaldy). ...
Stanley Fish is to Richard Rorty what Ayn Rand is to Friedrich Nietzsche 25 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
During deconstructionisms's heyday Is there a text in this class? served an important function, and in graduate school I quite enjoyed him as David Lodge's Morris Zapp character, though the joke is va...
Crowd-funding €25,000,000 for Philosophy? 24 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
A group is trying to raise €25,000,000 for philosophy: Different institutions are participating in this project, they already are part of the project: Various professors and students from the Humbol....
Charles Taylor Speaks Out 24 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Charles Taylor, the philosopher, was co-chair of a commission appointed by the last Liberal Party government of Québec to study "reasonable accommodation" of ethnic groups of non-Québec origin. (When ...
"The working conditions of instructors are the learning conditions of students" 23 Aug 2013 | 05:22 pm
A guest post from Ed Kazarian: President Obama has just released his Plan to Make College More Affordable and the critiques have been coming fast and furious (for instance). A major feature of the pl...
