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Intellectual Roots of Wall Street Protest Lie in Academe – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anarchism in action. The intellectual origins of Occupy Wall Street aren’t in Cambridge or Morningside Heights. They’re in Madagascar…
Nobel prize for literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer
Although today’s Nobel winner is not directly associated with philosophy, he used to work as a psychologist. His work is often referred to in disucssions of “deep ecology.” For instance, you can… Read more
Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge
Is global warming caused by humans? Is Barack Obama a Christian? Is evolution a well-supported theory? You might think these questions have been incontrovertibly answered in the affirmative, proven by… Read more
Immanuel Kant’s Guide to a Good Dinner Party
On Kant’s view dining alone is bad for a philosopher: it encourages ‘intellectual self-gnawing’ that leads to a lack of vitality. Eating with at least one other companion, on the… Read more
Egypt’s joy as Mubarak quits | Tariq Ali
With Hosni Mubarak’s departure, the age of political reason is returning to Egypt and the wider Arab world A joyous night in Cairo. What bliss to be alive, to be… Read more
Say What? “SARTRE Vehicle Platooning”
“SARTRE Vehicle Platooning: The Next Evolution In Fully Automated Cars One of the most ambitious projects financed by the European Union (EU), SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), that… Read more
Say What? Electric Touch on not using Sartre
Standing outside a restaurant at lunch time, the black-clad members of Electric Touch look like a rock band. And onstage the Austin-based band’s members move around like classic rockers, spindly… Read more
Say What? Plaxico the existentialist
It has taken a few days to realize what has been nagging at me about Plaxico Burress’ tragic situation. … That was it! High school ninth grade English class, when… Read more
Say what? Sartre again, even more absurd
After the debate reference, here’s one even more absurd from the Times of London: Hell, observed that relentlessly jolly fellow Jean-Paul Sartre, is “other people”. Obviously, he never had to… Read more
Say what? Sartre and the presidential debate
from Bloomberg news: Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — As the world burned, the presidential candidates were sober, lucid, rarely off topic and always in character last night. Watching it was like… Read more
Say what? Mansfield on Feminsim (and Beauvoir)
Of often the Say What category comes from people who really don’t know much philosophy. Mansfield has no excuse though: The early feminists were radicals inspired by Simone de Beauvoir,… Read more
Say What?
Dandy warhols of Bohemian Rhapsodies: Is Courtney Taylor the new bohemian? “That’s why I throw around names like Nietzsche, and Mohammed and shit. I don’t care. I studied enough Wittgenstein,… Read more
Say What? Sartre on ESPN
The Existentialist : Tamsyn Lewis is Australia’s best hope in the 800 meters. But it’s as if she’s been reading too much Sartre recently; she doesn’t see the point in… Read more
New Category: “Say What?”
For a while, I have been meaning to have a less important category added to this site, devoted to strange uses, misuses and abuses of philosophy in the media. Sartre… Read more