Philosophy

The 69th Philosopher's Carnival

The Space of Reasons (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism

Thumb Jig (Free subscription) | yesterday

Submissions at Coach's Diner open longer

Back of the Envelope (Free subscription) | yesterday

The deadline for story submissions to have been . If you have a story that can reasonably be called Christian-themed genre fiction, you may want to submit it. They aren't looking for sword-and-sorcery fantasy or hardcore sci-fi, but they are looking for horror (including Cthulhu and monster stories), crime, adventure, twilight zone, conspiracy, aliens, and . Now that the deadline's been extended, I...

The Philosopher’s Apprentice

Bookgasm (Free subscription) | yesterday

Here’s how good James Morrow’s THE PHILOSOPHER’S APPRENTICE gets, for a long while: It's more accessible and memorable than his THE LAST WITCHFINDER, and that book was one of 2006’s very best. This fantasy of “mischievous alchemistry” is told by Mason Ambrose, a philosophy doctorate student who gets an unusual job offer after blowing his dissertation: [...]

The Evangelical Manifesto: Poison In The Pot

Christian Research Net (Free subscription) | yesterday

Watcher’s Lamp continues the examination of the Evangelical Manifesto. Read how the proponents of the Evangelical Manifesto: clearly distinguish themselves from conservative or fundmentalist Christians. favorably quote a mystical, existential philosopher by the name of Søren Kierkegaard ( an Emergent favorite) demonstrate their much-touted brotherly love by stereotyping fundamentalist Christians as...

Modern man, straw man

Metacatholic (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sometimes I wonder at a certain Christian mentality. The often stimulating After Existentialism, Light, for once, I think, gets it wrong in this post on why people leave the Church. InsideCatholic recently did an interesting survey of the reasons Catholics (and, for that matter, Christians in general) leave the Church by asking several prominent Catholics (bishops, professors, [...]

BBtv - Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."

Travelin' Librarian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

"You Two! We're at the end of the universe, eh. Right at the edge of knowledge itself. And you're busy... blogging!"— The Doctor, Utopia

Can U Read Kant?

Philosophers Net (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

To Mark Bauerlein, the present is a good time to be young only if you don't mind a tendency toward empty-headedness.

Modernity and the Holocaust

Dispatches from Zembla (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

I spent the last sunday reading Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust. It is an extraordinary, brilliant (and very gloomy) sociological analysis of modern society, taking Holocaust as an extreme example of all its ugliness. Bauman is a Polish philosopher and sociologist who has lived and taught in England for a number of years. I guess, to professional sociologists and philosophers much of what...

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

Bring it On! (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

The Guardian, via RawStory has a piece up today about a letter that Albert wrote back on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind. The letter has been in a private collection since a year after he penned it. It is going on sale this week at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair on Thursday and [...]

Einstein an Athiest?

Shadow of the Hegemon (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Maybe, maybe not, but he did call the bible 'pretty childish' at one point. The letter up for sale, written to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954, suggests his views on religion did not mellow with age. In it, Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless...

Imaginary Paris on $5000 a Day

Citizen of the Month (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

I love imaginary Paris. I love the cafes, the art, the fashion, but mostly I thrive here because this is the famed city of French existentialism and moral relativism. I am comfortable here using the $5000 that I found in that imaginary wallet yesterday. Sure, I COULD have returned the wallet to the owner, but what's [...]

BBtv - Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Today on Boing Boing tv, Cory Doctorow invites you to create and share HOWTO videos based on an ongoing series of Instructables posts that draw from his latest book, Little Brother. Here's how Andrew “bunnie” Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox, describes the book: [A] scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage...

'They manage the world'

Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Foreign and military affairs, and the social, economic and financial policy of each nation must follow the directives imposed by these "experts." In a November 2003 article in Le Monde, the author of an article on the Trilateral Commission, professor Olivier Boiral, wrote, "Like the philosopher kings of the Platonic Republic who contemplated the realm of Ideas to sow their transcendent wisdom into...

Twitter by Machiavelli

cgm (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Just couldn't resist -- this from both my ClickZ column and a accompanying website to keep the conversation alive. "Imagine if astute political observer and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli parachuted back into our world to see all the strange new media...

33-Way Thermal Interface Material Comparison

das capitolin | 03/04/2008

33-Way Thermal Interface Material Comparison Benchmark Reviews has seen a lot of products made for the purpose of delivering better performance. Some of these products exist for overclockers and enthusiasts, and often times help deliver performance out of otherwise tame hardware. Other products sometimes only deliver the empty marketing claim of improvements. Of all the products we have seen and tested,

What if the Delegate Selection by Dems and GOP was Identical?

mrinternet | 03/04/2008

The party nominating rules that choose delegates of the two major political parties - the Democrats and Republicans are vastly different. The phenomenon is already out of the bottle. But, what if the delegate selection process was identical? Let's examine the existing delegate selection differences first. Then we'll show you something pretty incredible.

Sail of Hope. YOU CAN HELP!!

seneca | 02/19/2008

Sail of Hope. YOU CAN HELP!! Sail of Hope is a Humanitarian Aid organization that sends food items and clothing to disadvantaged children, orphans and widows in Moscow, Russia. Sail of Hope was originally chartered in Moscow, Russia by a courageous woman, Larissa Zelentsova. Sail of Hope exists to help the mentally and physically challenged people of Russia. It helps widows as well. In 1992 Sail of...