http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 17 May 2008 06:03:53 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.14/content/springwidget/philosophy.xml http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17478564 Recognizing that those others are of value -- that they have interests that matter, too -- is kind of at the heart of being an ethical human being... I'd really like to nudge myself, and those around me, to a place where we make more of our choices with a mindfulness about how those choices change Philosophy, et cetera Fri, 16 May 2008 20:20:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17478564 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17460616 This week's hauntology event at The Museum of Garden History was an intriguing collection of ruins, ringing stones, bizarre discussions about oranges and Kode 9 and the Space Ape invoking the wrath of the fire alarm by disturbing sacred (if deconsecrated) ground in the chapel...Mark's paper is here infinite thought Fri, 16 May 2008 14:02:54 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17460616 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17458382 According to a view in psychology of concepts called psychological essentialism, people believe that natural category members share some hidden, unobservable, empirically discoverable deep structure or essence, whose possession is necessary and sufficient for Experimental Philosophy Fri, 16 May 2008 12:27:06 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17458382 http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/05/annual_meeting_of_the_society.php Profile Recent Comments Recent Posts Search this blog My photos Books Archives Announcing the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology June 26-29, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Registration is now open; deadline The Neurophilosopher's weblog Tue, 13 May 2008 10:31:14 GMT http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/05/annual_meeting_of_the_society.php http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17432469 Philosophy begins when a community of people encounter a problem that outstrips their current methods for problem-solving. For example, in ancient Greece, the Sophists seemingly could argue persuasively for either side in a court case or public policy debate. The Splintered Mind Thu, 15 May 2008 17:25:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17432469 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17473961 Janet Stemwedel had a post yesterday on water conservation: If there's a drought looming, a water district would like water users to cut back their water usage. Since people need to use some water (to drink, to boil ramen noodles, to wash, etc.), a water district wants a policy that acknowledges Philosophy, et cetera Fri, 16 May 2008 18:12:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17473961 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17386694 Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals' Although Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory, published some twenty years after Dialectic of Enlightenment, were regarded as proof of Adorno’s hostility toward political praxis by the generation of the New Left, these texts open up the philosophical conversations Wed, 14 May 2008 13:52:10 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17386694 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17431651 Life can be ironic: within a week, I managed to be in New York, US and then in York, UK. It even took me some time to realise the odd coincidence. In York, I gave a presentation at the meeting E-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy and Religious Studies. The problem: Philosophy of Information Thu, 15 May 2008 16:41:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17431651 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17350553 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be hosting the second annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop. The workshop is an annual event where epistemologists present and discuss recently completed work or work in progress that is close to completion. The second Certain Doubts Tue, 13 May 2008 09:04:13 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17350553 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17359204 'Free logic' is an abbreviation for 'logic whose terms are free of existential assumptions, both singular and general.' - Negative free logics declare all such sentences false; - Neutral free logics declare all such sentences neither true nor false; and - Positive free logics declare at least some Obscure and Confused Ideas Tue, 13 May 2008 17:52:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17359204 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17296928 Indeed, what Baudelaire’s poems verify is already tacit in the affective hold of memory: that of all the senses, it is the smell of the past, especially where that past is bound with intimacy and eroticism, that disrupts the rhythm of the everyday through transporting us to a world that was Side Effects Sun, 11 May 2008 19:08:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17296928 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17290890 Intuitively, it's clear that 'wrong' entails 'ought not'; and the term 'right' seems simply to be the contradictory of 'wrong' (after all, 'It's not right' seems at first glance to entail 'It's wrong', and obviously nothing can be both right and wrong). But PEA Soup Sun, 11 May 2008 13:02:01 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17290890 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17301423 He will ignore both the vertical hierarchy of propositions which are stacked on top of one another, and the horizontal relationship established between phrases in which each seems to respond to another. The copulative statement: myth is totality is just that: The Enlightenment Underground Mon, 12 May 2008 00:23:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17301423 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17469396 In the above scenario, it looks like your all-things-considered judgment should be that the totality of reasons that exist weigh against phi-ing, even though you do not currently have access to all those reasons yourself. The reasons in your possession count in favour of phi-ing, but as a realist Philosophy, et cetera Fri, 16 May 2008 16:03:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17469396 http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/05/brain_mind_symposium_videos.php Speakers included the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, developmental neurobiologist Thomas Jessell, who heads Columbia's new neuroscience research centre, and pioneering child psychiatrist Michael Rutter, whose reassessment of John Bowlby's The Neurophilosopher's weblog Thu, 15 May 2008 18:14:29 GMT http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/05/brain_mind_symposium_videos.php http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17458800 Business Section: Stories Please try again shortly. We apologize that this section is currently unavailable. [ha ha ha] infinite thought Fri, 16 May 2008 13:36:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17458800 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17365451 Here's the food: In my experience, philosophers' spouses (unless they are themselves philosophers) are almost universally disdainful of the value of philosophy -- much more so than the average comparably-educated non-philosopher, it seems to me, and much more so than the spouses of professors in The Splintered Mind Tue, 13 May 2008 20:09:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17365451 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17274129 According to received tradition in analytic epistemology, whether a true belief qualifies as knowledge depends only on purely epistemic factors – factors that are appropriately “truth-related”. First, it is natural to characterize intellectualism Certain Doubts Sat, 10 May 2008 08:47:05 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17274129 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17363979 Bertram Malle and I have recently completed a manuscript that analyzes Joshua Knobe's "side-effect effect," the interesting set of results that has generated an extensive debate (to which many of you have contributed). We also show that desire (or Experimental Philosophy Tue, 13 May 2008 19:29:48 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17363979 http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17286015 Being stuck in a city because your flight leaves only 24 hours later is a more pleasant way to obtain the same goal. Not only for the single pieces (I enjoyed many of them, especially Walead Beshty, Jedediah Caesar, Charles Long) but also for the overview it affords on today's America art. Not many Philosophy of Information Sat, 10 May 2008 21:02:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/philosophy/item/17286015