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  • Philosophy or Sophistry?

    Romano’s newer (broader?) definition of philosophy fits my own definition of sophistry (click here to read).  ‘America the Philosophical,’ by Carlin Romano – NYTimes.com.

  • The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

    I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.” This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing attend to the world & focus your situation in order…

  • Originally posted on coromandal: http://youtu.be/bOJL7WkaadY It turns out there’s a long tradition in philosophy and spirituality that’s about embracing negativity, about easing up on all this positive thinking, and learning instead to bathe in insecurity and uncertainty and failure, to confront your mortality and to find the enormous potential for…

  • Turing’s three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information

    In this article, I outline the three main philosophical lessons that we may learn from Turing’s work, and how they lead to a new philosophy of information. After a brief introduction, I discuss his work on the method of levels of abstraction (LoA), and his insistence that questions could be…

  • Originally posted on What is it like to be a woman in philosophy?: This is not about what it’s like to be a woman in philosophy. I suspect it is about what it’s like to be a human in philosophy. I am a successful philosopher in well-respected department, with a…

  • Together Alone Coming Down Later

    After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome, to alleviate turbulent suffering regrets of disconnection, leaping despondent from…

  • Originally posted on The Phoenix and Olive Branch: Might as well quit now, kid. Your classmate is already doing Advanced Calculus. Dear Baby Boomers and Generation X, Quit telling us we’re not special. Believe us, we bloody well know. Earlier this month, Wellesley high school teacher David McCullough, Jr., delivered what was…

  • Originally posted on Drunks&Lampposts: A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz If you are interested in this data set you might like my latest post where I use it to make book recommendations. This one came about because I was searching for a data…

  • Originally posted on Speculative Heresy: Call for Participation – Committee To Discuss Project Joan of Art: Towards a Free Education System Hypothesis: Freedom in an unfree society can only be feigned. Such a feigning is by definition an artistic act. In a post-political age art bears a social responsibility. ‘Joan of…

  • Originally posted on iamadam: “The distinction between men and animals is in one sense only a difference in degree. But the extent of the degree makes all of the difference. The Rubicon has been crossed” (p. 27). via Philosophy of the Human in Whitehead and Schelling (response to Knowledge-Ecology). via The Rubicon…

  • The Power of Integrity | Critical Thought

    The Power of Integrity | Critical Thought.

  • Interesting.

  • Originally posted on Joyous Crybaby: German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, by Leandro Gonzalez de Leon. In my continuing effort to bring a variety of voices to this blog, I give you another guest post, this one a philosophical contemplation about “authenticity.” This post dovetails nicely with the one I did…

  • 90 Million Workers Won’t Be Needed By 2020, Study Says

    For developing countries to combat long-term joblessness, the study said, they need to double or triple the capacity of their high schools and vocational schools, double or triple their labor-intensive exports, and double or triple their investment in infrastructure and housing construction to employ lower-skill workers. via 90 Million Workers…

  • Garage Sale Existentialism | The New Existentialists

    As the urban treasure hunters stop to peruse the wares, a very poor rendition of bedouin negotiating takes place between two suburbanite stalkers, one striving to sell his or her “valuable” wares and the other seeking to gain a prize at the lowest price possible. In this entrepreneurial dance of…

  • @FANDOR: Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins

    http://www.fandor.com/flash/player.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fandor.com%2Fplaylists%2Fedvard_munch

  • An invigorating entry. I always love to find folks who are doing Great Books reading groups. Bravo!

  • Spot on quote from Latour whilst meditating where Speculative Realism fits with Control Neworks.