Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has recently released a book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, that alleges many wrongdoings by the Bush administration, including the use of propaganda to persuade Americans he is right. For those with half-a-brain, McClellan’s allegations are not news at all.
The White [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Rove and modus tollens
Posted in “war on terror”, personal, popular culture, society on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Polish Journal of Philosophy: Announcement of v.II(1), CFP, and Call for Reviewers
Posted in philosophy on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Polish Journal of Philosophy is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of the second volume. The Polish Journal of Philosophy is a new peer-reviewed periodical publishing contributions on any aspect of philosophy. The journal is published semi-annually currently, although in the near future it will be published on a quarterly basis. [...]
Experimental Political Philosophy
Posted in cognitive science, experimental philosophy, folk psychology, philosophy, political philosophy, rationality on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nicole Hassoun at Public Reason has posted an experiment on how people think about “meeting needs” (here). The results appear in an article that will be published Utilitas, though the experimental results will play only a “minor” role. Yali Corea-Levy of Arizona conducted the experiment.
A colleague in Political Science (at Weber State) and I have [...]
Yo Dawkins!
Posted in Religion, funny, science on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I swear that I’m not copying Clayton in posting music videos, but this is too funny…
The argument than which nothing greater can be conceived
Posted in Existence of God, Religion, philosophy of religion on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I will stop posting on the philosophy of religion soon. (logical psychologism and conceptual analysis and intuitions are probably next. Of course such discussion will be interspersed with local color!)
Anyone who’s taken an introductory philosophy course probably has been introduced to St. Anselm’s ontological argument for God’s existence and Gaunilo’s objections “on behalf of the [...]
Irena Sendler dies at 98
Posted in Religion, personal, society on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Irena Sendler, Polish unsung heroine, died Monday at the age of 98 (stories here, here and here; HT: Whispers in the Loggia). She was a social worker in Warszawa when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Soon after the invasion and occupation of Warszawa, the Nazis set up a walled-off ghetto within the city limits. [...]
New philosophy blog
Posted in blogging, local color, philosophy on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shaun Miller has a new philosophy blog here.
Repealing the private club membership requirement
Posted in Utah, local color, society on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the Salt Lake Tribune today (here), Dawn House reports on the governor’s effort to repeal the private club membership law. Patrons of “private clubs,” are legally required to purchase a membership. Private clubs may serve alcohol without food. Restaurants, bars, pubs, etc. are required to serve food when they serve patrons alcohol (of course [...]
Florida’s Philosophy PhD program temporarily retained
Posted in philosophy, society on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The newly revised budget proposal President Bernie Machen presented to the board of trustees calls for the temporary retention of the University of Florida’s PhD Program in Philosophy. Although the Philosophy, German, and romance language and literature programs will be preserved, no graduate students will be admitted until 2012. So, it sounds as if it’s [...]
Surviving a zombie apocalypse
Posted in funny, philosophy of mind, psychology on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With all the talk of zombies floating around the philosophy blogosphere (here and here and other sites; too many sites to mention now) seemingly ended by what Philosophy Sucks! calls the Zombie Cold War (here) perhaps it’d be useful for us to know how to survive a zombie apocalypse (here).
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