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• A Kierkegaard Bicentennial Roundup

  

  Sketch by Christian Olavius Zeuthen (1843)May 5 was the 200th anniversary of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard's birth, as was noted by Julian Baggini. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Confusion in the Learning Process

  Derek Muller has created some great videos for science education. He posts them at Veritasium on YouTube. He summarizes one of his studies in the clip that... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosopher's Zone is Back and Other Philosophy News

  

  'School of Athens' by Raphael. Epicurus is on our left.After Alan Saunders' death, the Australian radio show about philosophy, Philosopher's Zone, was on a... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Fiddling with the Whatchamacallits

  There's been much fiddling of late with the thing-a-ma-jigs and doo-hickeys in the right margin. I added a blog feed for history and a new link list for... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• A Gathering of the Past -- Weekend Links

  

  Professors 4th-year graduates of philosophy at Lviv University (1904)Source. Antoni Łomnicki is standing 3rd from left. (He was killed by Germans in the... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• City of Lions -- Lemberg, Lwów, and Lviv

  

  Akademicki Square, Lemberg(Source)The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has an impressive and complex legacy. It began the 20th-Century as Lemberg, an... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Peddling Schopenhauer

  

  I found this ad folded inside a musty, old copy of The Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: 'The Wisdom of Life' and Other Essays (New York, NY: Black's Readers Servic... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Cheer Up, Arty! It's Your Birthday

  

  I recently read some of Arthur Schopenhauer's work. He was a first-rate aphorist who, unfortunately, diluted his pithy wisdom with mediocre metaphysics (a... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Mellen Press and Rev. Richardson

  You've likely heard by now via Brian Leiter's blog of the law suit that Mellen Press has filed against Dale Askey, a librarian at McMaster University. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Noir Killers, Family Men, Methodist Clergy, and Debauched Authors

  

  Here's an old CBC interview with Somerset Maugham, possibly 'the most debauched man of the 20th century',whom Ward Cleaver held up as a model for his youngest... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Latest from Kakania

  

  Mr. Waggish has a new post about Robert Musil, in which a new book on Musil by Genese Grill is discussed.The Monist's deadline for papers for its Musil issue ha... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 11 Philosophy, Literature, & Music Links

  

  T. E. HulmeRoger Kimball on T. E. Hulme: 'Hulme was more subtle, and perhaps more effective, in his attacks on the pacifism of Bertrand Russell and the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Ludwig's Outcasts

  In the comments to this thread on Brian Leiter's blog, I said that Iris Murdoch had attended Wittgenstein's lectures. It turns out that she didn't. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Philosophy Bits

  

  William JamesGertrude Himmelfarb on William James and the new atheists.Last spring, I wrote about Colin McGinn's stinging review of Terrence Deacon's book. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Gendered Conference Campaign

  A call to support the Gendered Conference Campaign. "We call on all philosophers - male and female, junior and senior - not to organize male-only or... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quotations That Relate an Old Philosophical Point

  Here's a quotation from Frederick Beiser's The German Historicist Tradition: To illustrate his point, he [Max Weber] asks us to suppose that psychology has... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Joad and Stebbing

  I know of two books devoted to Joad. There's Cyril Joad by Geoffrey Thomas (1992) and Radio Philosopher: The Radical Life of Cyril Joad by Tony Judge (2012).... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Joad as Philosophical Journalist and Entertainer

  The Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand devotes a chapter to Joad in Conversations in Bloomsbury, a collection of Anand's reminiscences about his student days in... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Joad and the Law

  

  I gave a rough outline of Joad's life but didn't know that one of his books, Guide to the Philosophy of Morals and Politics, was quoted in the 1988 Supreme Cour... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Joad of Joad Hall

  Last Friday, Nigeness posted on the English philosophy professor, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (1891-1953), painting an unflattering picture of Joad. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY