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Neurological Ethics?
2007-05-12 01:46:00
This science article from the Wall Street Journal discusses recent American research into a neurobiological basis for morality. “Knock out certain brain cells with an aneurysm or a tumor, they discovered, and while everything else may appear normal, the ability to think straight about some issues of right and wrong has been permanently skewed. “It tells ...
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Habermas: The Basics
2007-05-11 23:35:00
In this video, Jürgen Haber mas outlines the broad contours of his work (deliberative democracy and communicatve rationality). The discussion isn’t very theoretical, but certainly gives a flavour of the Habermasian project.
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CFP - Monsters and the Monstrous
2007-05-08 11:54:00
Monsters and the Monstro us: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil Monday 17th September - Thursday 20th September 2007 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus with the ...
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CFP - Forum/Society for European Philosophy
2007-05-03 19:58:00
Call for Papers for the 3rd Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Phil osophy and the Forum for European Philosophy at The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.  The conference will be held on September 8th-10th 2007. The FEP-SEP Joint Conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of ...

Ron Paul: Republican Senator
2007-04-30 17:24:00
The Senate needs more Republican s like this. Ron Paul is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who is one of the most outspoken of the Republicans against the war. He offers a number of robust constitutionalist arguments against U.S. foreign policy. The more impotent democrats could learn a lot from this guy, that’s for sure.  One ...
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?New? Commentary on Aristotle
2007-04-26 21:06:00
It isn’t every day that something like this happens. Research ers using spectral imaging techniques have uncovered the commentary within a text known as the Archimedes Palimpest. Medieval recyclers seem to have thought this pagan work unworthy of preservation, because they just scrubbed it off and re-used the manuscript. The original is on ...
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Fascist America?
2007-04-24 10:25:00
Naomi Wolf has an interesting article in The Guardian today which compares the present climate in the United States with the ferment of fascism in the middle of the 20th Century in Europe. I would say it’s pretty uncomfortable reading. Here’s a summary of the list for all wannabe fascists to keep handy. 1.) ...
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Zizek on Philosophy
2007-04-20 18:15:00
… and chocolate laxatives.
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CFP - Pli (Warwick)
2007-04-11 15:16:00
Pli invites submissions for the next volume (Volume 19) which will be concerned with the notions of sense and nonsense. ‘The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.’ Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections ‘In order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides ...

CFP - Studies in Social Justice
2007-04-10 13:55:00
The Editors of Studies in Social Justice invite submissions all year round. Studies in Social Justice is published twice yearly by the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor. This electronic journal publishes articles on issues dealing with the social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with the struggle for social justice. ...
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Honneth in London
2007-03-30 13:55:00
Axel Honneth spoke in London last week as part of the Forum for European Philosophy series of ‘Conversations’. He was talking to Peter Dews, and the conversation spanned from his confessions of undermotivated scholarship in the 1960s to a brief discussion of his latest work on reification. The talk - which was both ...
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10th Essex Conference
2007-03-27 13:17:00
I am pleased to announce the schedule for the 10th International Graduate Conference in Philosophy at the University of Esse x. The Conference will be held at the University on Saturday, 28th April 2007, and will feature papers by our visiting keynote speaker Dr. Karin de Boer (University of Groningen) and Dr.Wayne Martin (University ...
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CFP: Recognition
2007-03-12 16:20:00
The Centre for research in ethics at the University of Montreal (CREUM) is sponsoring an international workshop on “The Plural States of Recognition ,” to be held in Montreal, September 27-29, 2007. Twenty-four invited scholars will speak on three major themes that are at the cutting edge of academic research on recognition. Poster session. Three student poster sessions ...

Baudrillard Dies
2007-03-07 16:10:00
Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and cultural realist, died today aged 77. His work, based upon Nietzschean sentiments of seduction and imitation, is most enduringly represented by the notion of the ‘hyper-real’. His notorious assertion that the first Gulf War ‘did not take place’ has been somewhat abused, but his concept of the ‘event’ ...
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CFP - HABERMAS & VIOLENCE
2007-03-06 11:43:00
Panel “Haber mas and Viol ence ” - during the Political Theory Workshops, Fourth Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 3 - 5 September 2007 We are currently looking for contributions to the panel on “Habermas and Violence” to be held at the Fourth Annual conference of the Political Theory Workshops. We are specifically looking at the writings of ...
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Last Days of Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-02-19 13:11:00
Who ever would have thought that this footage existed? Assuming it is authentic, it has a rather macabre feel… Just in case you were wondering, this is Nietzsche toward the end.
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