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• Hegel in Canada

  I've been reading up on the history of Canadian philosophy. Anglo-Canadian academic philosophy was strongly influenced by British, particularly Scots, Hegelians. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Caporetto

  One hundred years ago the terrible WWI Battle of Caporetto began (on Oct. 24). The battle was named for a town that is now in Slovenia (and is called Kobarid... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophy Of/in Literature Links

  Nicole Im interviews philosophical novelist Joanna Kavenna.Viorica Patea on 'Ana Blandiana and Hölderlin's Eternal Question'.Erin Blakemore on 'Jane Austen and... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Sundry Items Making No Coherent Whole

  

  I've added content to the following old posts:America's Critical-Thinking Movement in the 1930s '40sSome quotations on factsJohn Albert Chadwick, WWI vet who... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Oxford-comma Error Led the Press to Overstate British Gains at the Battle of...

  Debate has long raged about use of the Oxford comma (aka the serial comma). This troubling comma has its own Twitter feed and can be crucial for interpreting... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Critical Thinking as Meta-thinking in Gadske's Dissertation

  Critical thinking is often associated with what psychologists call metacognition. In such cognition, the mind thinks (and hopefully gains knowledge) about its... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Critical and Reflective Thinking (3) - Dewey on These Terms

  H. Reed Geertsen attributes to John Dewey an interesting distinction between 'reflective' and 'critical' thinking. According to Geertsen, Dewey 'distinguished... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Critical and Reflective Thinking (2)

  In my previous post, I noted that the phrases 'critical thinking' and 'reflective thinking' are often used interchangeably and that both terms have Kantian... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Critical and Reflecitve Thinking (1)

  I've looked into the history of the phrase 'critical thinking'. Given the phrase's Kantian connotations, it's no surprise that several early uses of 'critical... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The NEA's De-emphasis of Propaganda in Its Promotion of Critical Thinking

  The National Education Association's early efforts to promote critical thinking were concentrated on helping secondary students to resist propaganda. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• America's Critical-Thinking Movement in the 1930s & '40s

  In the 1930s and '40s there was a big push for teaching critical thinking in secondary schools. It was chiefly inspired by John Dewey's work (esp. his book How... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• John Albert Chadwick, WWI Vet Who Left Cambridge Logic for an Ashram

  My list of UK philosophers who served in WWI must be expanded to include John Albert Chadwick. I learned of this philosopher from C. D. Broad's obituary for... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Wittgenstein and WWI Authors

  In his analysis of writings by WWI vets, Samuel Hynes writes that:Writing like this, seeing like this, implies a fundamental separation in the perceiver: it... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• British Poets, Composers & Politicians in the Battle of the Somme

  The Battle of the Somme began one hundred years ago (July 1, 1916) and ended about four-and-a-half months later (Nov. 18) with approximately 1.3 million... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Battlefront Trauma and Ethical Language in Early Wittgenstein & Ford Madox Ford

  Let's begin with Ford Madox Ford (aka Ford Madox Hueffer until 1919). He suffered the trauma inflicted by a WWI battlefront bombardment at the Somme and in the... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links to Philosophy Book Reviews

  

  Tim Whitmarsh reviews Rowan Williams' On Augustine and Robin Lane Fox's Augustine: Conversions to Confessions.Five recent reviews with philosophical content fro... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Why Did Indian Philosophy Disappear from Mind for About 50 Years?

  In the 1800s and the early years of the 20th Century, Mind published several items on Indian philosophy.Examples:In 1915, the journal included a paper by P.... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• French and Central European Philosophers in WWI

  

  This war has indeed wrought great havoc in scholarship. (Edward P. Buffet, Monist 26, no. 2 [April, 1916], 'Karl Eugen Neumann', p. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Events and Quotes from Early 1916

  February 6: Jan Smuts (future Prime Minister of South Africa) accepts command of a British force, which includes African and Indian soldiers, that is to... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• A No Foolin' Philosophy Link List (now with More Videos)

  

  A New Yorker article in which Jill Lepore applies some of the insights of Michael Lynch and Barbara Shapiro.Joe Gelonesi interviews Noam Chomsky on Aussie radio. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY