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The Brooks Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Call for Papers 2010 ISRLC Conference, University of Oxford 23rd – 26th September 2010 Abstracts are now being sought for a panel on German Idealism at the 2010 International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference taking place at the University of Oxford next September on the topic, "Attending to the Other: Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice". German Idealism and...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election, combined with congressional gains for Democrats, will prompt a wave of soul-searching on the right. Among other things, we will be asking: What is the road back from the political wilderness? Where can we look for hope that the next four years will be a temporary lurch to the left from which America will soon recover? Fortunately, a long search is...
Thoughts On Economics (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have previously noted the problems for utility theory created by the application of Arrow's impossibility theorem to a single individual. And I had quoted a number of classic authors who wrote of themselves as being composed of more than one mind. Here's another: "'Freedom of the will' - that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and...
Mentors Town (Free subscription) | yesterday
Original Philosophy School of Thought REALISM Thinkers: Aristotle Harris Broudy John Locke John Comenius Johann Henrich Pestalozzi Jean Jacques Rosseu Assumptions Reality is what we observe. Experience exists only in the physical world. Mind is like a mirror receiving images only from the physical world. Nature is a primary self-evident reality, a starting point in philosophizing. Investigating and...
Unstable Euphony (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Here's a list of texts I'll be studying for my comprehensive exams. Rhetoric is one of my two secondary areas of study. Isocrates. Against the Sophists . Plato. Republic Book X. Aristotle. Rhetoric Books 1-2. Cicero. De Oratore . Augustine. On Christian Doctrine . Erasmus, Desiderius. Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style. Ecclesiastes . De Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies . Vico,...
singyourownlullaby (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Metzinger makes a provocative argument, he states that there is no such thing as a self, that there never has been, that there never will be. Many philosophers, David Hume, in the Anglo Saxon universe have said that for a long time. Who am I? The physical body certainly exists, the organism exists, but organisms are not selves. He does not deny that there is a self-y feeling. He says he certainly...
Sophistpundit (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I just recently found this post at This Field is Required discussing how Kant's moral philosophy is insufficient to provide guidance even on the simple matter of whether or not you should let someone cut in line. The post is a followup on an earlier one that dealt more briefly with the matter as well as two other philosophies that have trouble with the line-cutting scenario. The followup came in response...
Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Jonathan Schaffer (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) and Susanna Schellenberg (philosophy of mind, epistemology), both at the Australian National University, have accepted tenured offers as, respectively, professor and associate professor at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, to start in 2011...
Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
An endearing episode 5.8 of Bones last night, with a winning performance by Ralph Waite, who continues a sterling career in his senior years. On Bones, he plays Booth's grandfather - "Pops" - who raised Booth and his brother after Pops evicted their father from their lives. Booth's father had been beating him. As in most of the episodes this season, the best story is in these personal interludes...
Al Filreis (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The New York Times lead, for a story published in 1995: "One of the gossipy curiosities of 20th-century philosophy is that Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish philosopher remembered for her fierce and unforgiving attacks on totalitarianism, had a youthful fling in the 1920s with Martin Heidegger." Here is a link to that story, and here's a response to the matter by Aharon Meytahl.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
What an exasperating film, writes Peter Bradshaw Taking its title from Socrates's famous maxim about the unexamined life not being worth living - though without discussing it in any way - Astra Taylor's freewheeling documentary interviews various philosophers as they stroll about various cities and talk about what philosophy means. What an exasperating film. Each of the half-dozen or so thinkers gets...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wrote that what is "familiarly known" is not "properly known," just for the reason that it is familiar. The familiar historical image of the Edo Period Eccentric painters, one of whom was Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800), is no exception. They are remembered for their highly individual styles in unsurpassed technical abilities; their fanatic...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Every expansion team is expected to struggle during its inaugural season. And if Aristotle had focused on athletics instead of classic philosophy, he could've written volumes about this subject. For now, we'll use the Kyoto Hannaryz as the case study.
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The world's population really needs the skills (literacy!) to balance arguments and debate issues. Today being World Philosophy Day, 19 November 2009 we can see this need as global events re-frame our words. For decades now some of the world's capitals have become synonymous with fevered political debate, equality, equity, poverty, power.... 'Copenhagen' is the latest example, stressing the need for...
Amazin' Avenue (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I swore I'd never make fun of another Marty Noble Mailbag Inbox. Patrick from Connecticut had other plans : What are your feelings about Sabermetrics? Do you pay attention to them, or are you still a believer in the traditional statistics? -- Patrick F., Stamford, Conn. You feel that? That feeling that comes when you know something epic, legendary is about to happen? John Schuerholz, who had remarkable...
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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.
seneca | 02/19/2008
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seneca | 01/16/2008
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 Hope became a member of the
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