Posts from the “General Philosophy” Category

May 11th – Does Philosophy Still Matter?

It’s a Saturday – how about a discussion?
A distinguished panel addresses this question on the occasion of the publication of Professor James Miller’s new book, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche. Panelists include Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy at The New School for Social Research and author of The Book of Dead Philosophers; Anthony Gottlieb, author of The Dream of Reason, a three-volume history of philosophy; James Miller, professor of political science and chair of the Committee on Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research; Astra Taylor, independent filmmaker and director of Zizek! and Examined Life: Philosophy Is in the Streets; and Cornel West, author of Race Matters and Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University. The panel will be moderated by Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly.

May 5th – Some Suggested Readings In Feminism

Some recent (and not so recent) articles:

Woman – or Suffragette? – Oxford Dictionaries.

Noema: the collaborative bibliography of women in Philosophy - database of over 16,000 records of the works of over 5,000 women writing in the field of Philosophy.

IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING NICE, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL – by Margaret Atwood, Saturday Night, January 6, 2001.

Chapter Nine – Feminism In Philosophy (PDF) – Rae Langton

Introduction to Feminism, Topics: What Is Feminism? - MIT,  Sally Haslanger and Nancy Tuana.

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy - Approaches to Feminism

Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy - Feminist Philosophy

Feminism in Philosophy – Booklist

International Journal Of Feminist Approaches to BioEthics

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Because We’re Still Oppressed: “…a non-western feminism course syllabus for submission to my Women’s Studies department.”

Society for Women in Philosophy

 

May 1st – Feminism And Podcasts

April 21st – Trolling With Logic: Dr Stephen Law (Live Broadcast)


Head to:
http://vaughnlive.tv/trollingwithlogic
Dr Stephen Law is a philosopher and senior lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London. He also edits the philosophical journal Think, which is published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and aimed at the general public. Law currently lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and two daughters. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, and in 2008 became the Provost of the Centre for Inquiry UK. Law has published both a variety of academic papers and more popular, introductory books (including three children’s philosophy books).

March 17th – Irish Philosophy

Aporo: Irish Philosophical Research Group

The Irish Philosophical Society

The Great Irish Philosopher George Berkeley and His Famous Quotes

George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called “immaterialism” (later referred to as “subjective idealism”). George Berkeley at Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

George Berkeley and Idealism:

Edmund Burke – Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

Molyneux’s Problem – Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

Review of Thomas Duddy’s A History of Irish Thought, Routledge, 2002.

Philosophy Now: Is God Irish?

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