Philosophy News

Antanas Mockus: Philosopher King (maybe)

30. May 2010 Paul Pardi Article, News

Philosophy and mathematics professor is gaining significant steam in his bid for president of Colombia. The Green Party candidate is known for his antics once dressed up in tights and a cape and coming on stage as ‘Super Citizen.’ He is a serious candidate however and his strong message is resonatin... [More]

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Bad Literature is the New Philosophy

28. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

This delightful New York Times piece by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of the book, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction portrays the dismantling of philosophy by postmodernist literature departments. Modern literature has abandoned its true calling of unwrapping the li... [More]

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Dennett's Content and Consciousness Republished in Paper and E-book

27. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

Annoucement about Content and Consciousness in paper [More]

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Pricenton’s Appiah to Speak at Oregon State

26. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

Philosopher Kwame Anothony Appiah will be at OSU on Friday, May 28, 2010 and will give a public lecture titled, “Is Race Biological?” For more information, see the Gazzette Times announcement here.

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Descartes Scholar Paul Hoffman Dies

25. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

The UCR Highlander reports that Paul Hoffman passed away on Thursday, May 13th suddenly. Eric Schwitzgebel of UCR who writes the Splintered Mind blog reports that Hoffman died of a heart attack. Hoffman is best known for his work on Descartes but he also wrote in other areas notably metaphysics and ... [More]

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Defining Human Rights

24. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

Apparently some believe whales are people too.

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What Do American Funk, Cornel West, and the Environment Have in Common?

23. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

Socrates apparently. Oh and George Clinton. Well George Clinton has a “connection” to Socrates and Cornel West studies Socrates and both are environmental activists. Something like that. But no matter. West and Clinton honored a new New Jersey charter school called the “Barack Obama Green Charter Sc... [More]

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New Review on Recent Book on Searle’s Philosophy

22. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews has posted a review of Joshua Rust’s biography of John Searle. The book is published as a part of Continuum’s Contemporary American Thinkers series. “Rust gives his readers a grand overview of Searle's many philosophic activities. In doing so¸ he protects those w... [More]

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Philosopher Eschews Reflexivity

22. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

“I had a terrible education,” Woody Allen quips, “I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” Excoriating academics has always been a favorite pastime of those with common sense and philosophers have often been at the whipping post. The larger the word an academic uses to describe... [More]

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Scientists Create Synthetic Bacterium

20. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

The organism is controlled by entirely synthetic DNA developed in the lab. The research will most likely have negative ethical implications (real or imagined) but also significant potential for good. ‘This is literally a turning point in the relationship between man and nature,’ said molecular b... [More]

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