Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Sociology of the discipline | No Comments »
Colin McGinn and Ted Honderich's very public spat has made headlines in Canada: Philosophical difference: A remark about a girlfriend decades ago may have set off philosophers' feud Incidentally, the author of ... Read more..Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Sociology of the discipline | No Comments »
And in Liverpool: Pub philosophy is just the ale talking Read more..Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Departmental Stuff | No Comments »
What (other than the experience of tasting of Irn-Bru) do the Scottish Philosophers know that we don't? http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1927668.0.Huge_rise_in_study_of_philosophy_at_school.php And http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Lessons-in-why-we-are.3628350.jp Read more..Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Sociology of the discipline | No Comments »
The Connecticut Post has a brief profile of a Philosophy / Business undergraduate whose net worth is over a million dollars. It comes from real estate, not reflective thought, ... Read more..Monday, December 24th, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments, Sample arguments | No Comments »
There are a couple of responses to Appiah's letter about X-Philosophy in the NY Times on Dec. 8th have recently appeared. You can read the posts here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/magazine/23letters-t-002.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin I, for one, ... Read more..Monday, December 24th, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Electronic Resources | No Comments »
A little light diversion for the holidays: [youtube 7M-cmNdiFuI] Read more..Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments | No Comments »
I found this on a French technology blog I keep an eye on. It is an online gallery of animated gifs - you know, those annoying little flashy images that ... Read more..Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Videos, Sample arguments, Electronic Resources | No Comments »
I've been using commercials to demonstrate appeals to pathos for a few years now - especially 'matching character' via brand identity ads. As it occurs to me, I'll post some ... Read more..Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments | No Comments »
The 2007 edition of the OED has done away with over 16,000 hyphens that once split compound nouns used to refer to a single entity (such as hobby-horse). Thank goodness. ... Read more..Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments | No Comments »
There has been numerous stories on the death of Alex the African grey parrot including this one in the New York Times: Alex Wanted a Cracker, but Did He Want One? It ... Read more..