People often ask me for advice on fixing their computers and resolving IT problems, so I made this page to keep this information in a handy place. If you’re somebody who experiences problems with their PC, you might find something useful here too. Too many people are still paying too much money for software when […]
October 24, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams Edited by Patricia Brace and Robert Arp University Press of Kentucky’s The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series: http://www.kentuckypress.com/newsite/pages/series/series_philosophy.html Abrams’ filmography from the Internet Movie Database can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/ Please send these two things to Patricia Brace at: pat.brace@smsu.edu, by January 1, 2010: (1) A […]
April 1, 2009
On the 4th and 5th of June 2009 philosophers will gather to honour Mark Sacks, who died last year. Mark was the founding editor of the European Journal of Philosophy and a leading scholar of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. I can’t say that I got to know him as well as I would have liked, […]
February 10, 2009
This is a call for papers for the annual one-day conference of the UK Sartre Society (UKSS), which will be held at the Institut français (17 Queensberry Place, London: nearest tube: South Kensington) on Friday 18 September 2009. We welcome papers (lasting about 30 minutes) on any aspect of Sartre’s life or work: literature, theatre, […]
November 22, 2008
According to research published in the Journal of Religion and Society this week, developed countries which are predomiantly secular seem to suffer fewer social ills like murder, suicide and teenage pregnancy. The apparent bogeyman of the piece is the USA, which, while being the most religious Western society, has rates of murder, incarceration, abortion, syphilis, […]
November 3, 2008
What is the appropriate way to do philosophy? Historically, the form of philosophy has varied; Plato preferred the dialogue, Nietzsche the aphorism, Kierkegaard the parable. In the 20th century many philosophers pronounced a proper way to do philosophy. The logical positivists wanted to do away with metaphysics and held science as the ideal model for […]
October 20, 2008
According to the BBC, sales of Marx’s Das Kapital are up more than 300% in Germany since the onset of the credit crunch, and have been on the rise since 2005. Even the Times is asking whether Marx was on to something. Could we be seeing the end of the popular embargo on Marxist thought?
April 6, 2010
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