Philosophy News

Tom Morris on the Popularity of Philosophy

20. May 2010 Paul Pardi Article, News

Morris, in an article for the Huffington Post, picks up on the new New York Times blog on philosophy and spends some time defining the discipline and explaining why everyone one should be doing it. It seems philosophy is striking some chords with the wider population. "Journalists have called me ... [More]

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Philosophy Lecture at CSULA

19. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

Those in the Los Angeles, CA area may be interested in a lecture being given by Mariana Ortega, Shula Chair and Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University. Her talk is titled, “Home, Belonging, and Multiplicitous Subjectivity” and will cover the notion of “home” in terms of a politics of loc... [More]

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Words Matter

17. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

Noam Chomsky, that innovative linguistic, is not known for mincing words. Now it seems language—his raison d'etre—is keeping him out of the West Bank. Chomsky was set to give a lecture at Birzeit University when he was stopped at the Jordan border. According to the professor, “the government did not... [More]

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Philosophy Goes Mainstream

17. May 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

Philosophy has long been out of vogue. Mainly relegated either to ivory towers or to mainstream books with titles like [Your Favorite Cultural Icon] and Philosophy, it’s now showing up alongside All the News That’s Fit to Print. The New York Times has just launched a new forum on philosophy called T... [More]

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Philosophy Students Balk at Department Closures

14. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

Due to financial difficulties, Middlesex University has decided to close the philosophy department. Students of that department are pushing back. However, the Middlesex decision has not been justified to students. A meeting to brief the students about the closure was postponed, says the universi... [More]

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Hell, Fire, and (Global) Warming

13. May 2010 Paul Pardi Article, News

I came across this op-ed piece in the New York Times today by Al Gore on global warming. While there’s little of obvious philosophical value in this article, as one who grew up in a very conservative Christian church, I’ve been struck by the similarities between the language Gore uses to articulate ... [More]

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Philosophy job open at Arizona Western College

11. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

Arizona Western College is looking to fill the position of Professor of Philosophy for the Fall 2010 semester. They are looking for eligible candidates with a Master’s degree or higher. See the posting here.

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A New Biography of Friedrich Nietzsche

9. May 2010 Paul Pardi News

; Francis Fukuyama of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies writes an abstract of a new biography of Nietzsche for the New York Times. The biography, written by Julian Young and titled, A Philosophical Biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, avoids overly psychologizin... [More]

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Is Philosophy Necessary?

28. April 2010 Paul Pardi News, Article

In this piece, Craig Rood, a graduate student in philosophy at North Dakota State University opines about the value of philosophy in light of the University’s decision to close the Cardinal Muench Seminary. By closing the seminary, the philosophy department at NDSU will lose two of its professors du... [More]

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Epistemic Closure or Closed Epistemology?

26. April 2010 Paul Pardi Article, News

I ran across this amusing article this evening. The title caught my attention. Typically when interdisciplinary terms find their way into popular speech acts, they retain some semblance of their original meaning. In this case, the term “epistemic closure” seems to have fathered a bastard child with ... [More]

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