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• 'Scientism' 1

  The use of the English term 'scientism' echoes that of the French 'scientisme'. Both words have primarily been terms of abuse, implying the application of... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• November Philosophy Links

  Marilynne Robinson on 'Jonathan Edwards in a New Light: Remembered for Preaching Fire and Brimstone, He Was Actually One of the Great Intellectuals of His Era'. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophy Links

  Kadri Vihvelin and Terrance Tomkow didn't like Dennett's review of Mele's book on freedom: 'It is disgraceful because Dennett is coyly, with nodding winks and... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Resources on Sci-fi & Philosophy

  Eric Schwitzgebel has invited several philosophers and sci-fi authors to post lists of their favourite philosophical sci-fi stories. He's posted four batches... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• C. E. Montague on Working out a Spice of Ultimate Good

  I blogged about C. E. Montague last spring. Here's a passage from one of his books: People whose work is the making of calculations or the manipulation of... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Sundry Items of Philosophy (in the Loose & Popular Sense)

  Lives of famous Scottish philosophers.Carrie Figdor interviews Richard Fumerton about his book Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophy in the Wider World

  The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a site devoted to theories of causal history. The site has entries for many ancient and early modern... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophy Links, Sept. 6

  

  The photo is of Elizabeth Anscombe speaking on the occasion of her receipt of an honorary degree at the University of Navarra.'The Anscombe Forum is an annual... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophy Link-o-rama

  Here are the podcasts from an Oxford conference on 'Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment'.From Philosophy TV, Gregg Caruso and... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links on the University of Illinois' Termination of Freedom of Expression

  John K. Wilson reproduces Chancellor Wise's alarming letter. Every word of Wilson's critique (in the first four paragraphs of the linked post) is golden. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Dawkins on Down Syndrome and Abortion

  Richard Dawkins on what to do upon discovering that a fetus has Down Syndrome (DS):'Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if yo... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Cafes Reichsrat and Arkaden

  

  Six years ago, I posted on some interwar Viennese cafés of historical interest, including the Arkaden and the Reichsrat. I noted the significance of the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Quotations on Kenneth Fearing

  Ron Capshaw notes that poet and novelist Kenneth Fearing was one of the founders of the Partisan Review.I discovered Fearing's poetry in my first year as an... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• On August 3, 1914, Germany Declared War on France...

  The war began with Austria-Hungary opening fire on Serbia on July 28. The UK entered the war on August 4.Stephen Evans on 'World War One: Germany's forgotten... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• WWI Links with a Focus on Austria-Hungary

  From the BBC, 'Music on the brink' -- mostly Viennese music of the time; and a BBC postcard from Vienna by Professor David Wyn Jones, read by Jonathan Pryce. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Dystopic Bliss

  Emily Witt's diary entry in the latest issue of the LRB has left me seeking a handy label for articles that effectively say 'Aldous Huxley's dystopia is here... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quoting Bertrand Russell (on Harvard in 1914)

  

  I miss in the professors the atmosphere of meditation and absent-mindedness which one associates with thought -- they all seem more alert and business-like and... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Link Roundup Mostly on Literary Prussians & Berliners

  

  Brecht portrait by Rudolf Schlichter (1926)Michael Hofmann on Wolfgang Koeppen:The one exception, the single oasis in thirty-five years of literary-commercial... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Hempel's Influence on the DSM

  Ever on the lookout for philosophers' influence on other disciplines, I was intrigued to find this 2013 publication by Massimiliano Aragona about Carl Hempel's... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quoting C. Wright Mills

  One key thing about American mass culture ... is that it is not an "escape" from the strains of routine, but another routine, which in its murky formulations an... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY