“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
- Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and Sidra Shahid are launching a new Research Series at the Blog of the APA. They talked with Heidi Schmidt, the Editor of the Research beat, about what […]
- David Thorstad is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College. His research focuses on bounded rationality and norms of […]
- Piedmont College is a private, four-year, church-related, liberal arts college in rural northeast Georgia that will become Piedmont University in 2021, almost 125 years after its founding in 1897. When […]
- By 555 A.D. Emperor Justinian I was close to reconquering most of the territories in Italy and North Africa lost 100 years earlier when the Roman empire’s western half collapsed. […]
- In the last week before the November presidential election, are we philosophy instructors setting our students up to fail in arguing about climate change, racial injustice, and other ethically-charged topics? […]
- Below is the audio recording of Gisela Striker’s John Dewey Lecture, given at the 2019-2020 Eastern Division Meeting. The talk is titled “The Academic Practice of Philosophy (… in Two […]
- The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with philosophers. The following is an edited […]
- Is science the only or best source of knowledge, justification, and rational belief? If you answer in the affirmative, you are affected by an epistemic disease known as scientism. As […]
- Here’s a perverse thought experiment. Let’s suppose that we set ourselves the task of writing a history of philosophy that reflects and represents human thought in the period from, say, […]
- Public philosophy is philosophy oriented towards the general public. In our class, titled “Public Philosophy” and taught at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2020, philosophy majors used public philosophy […]
- The philosopher’s new book attacks the idea that any ideology has the answers to life’s questions – but advice from cats might be his exception… What’s it like to be […]
- Every day, people leave their quandaries on the Reddit website – asking others to judge whether they were in the wrong. As religion wanes, are we crowdsourcing our ethics?First of […]
- In his mid-30s, the actor was living the dream, but was far from happy. As he publishes his memoir Out of My Mind, he talks about turning his life around […]
- How one magic word became a way of justifying Silicon Valley’s unconstrained power. By Adrian Daub Continue reading…
- How one magic word became a way of justifying Silicon Valley’s unconstrained power There are certain phrases that are central to the sway the tech industry holds over our collective […]
- A new family-led documentary reveals the story of the US woodworker who, influenced by the philosophy of Japan and India, saw his furniture as a tree’s rebirthWhile most followers of […]
- Ethical wellbeing is as crucial as physical or mental health. There’s a way to rescue it from the jaws of modern politicsBritain is a country built on moral principles. The […]
- The philosopher believes the liberal left’s pursuit of meritocracy has betrayed the working classes. His new book argues for a politics centred on dignityMichael Sandel was 18 years old when […]
- Jean-Paul Enthoven forgave Raphaël for relationship with Carla Bruni but autobiographical novel too muchIs it possible to know anything, philosophers have pondered for centuries. In the case of two heavyweight […]
- A German university is offering scholarships to students willing to explore ‘active inactivity’. In an overly utilitarian age, it could be on to somethingEver since Max Weber spotted the role […]
- Ideological rifts widen as Catholic bishops ponder endangered forests and married priests
- Islam’s followers are not so much firebrands as nomads in search of a home
- Conflicts within Slavic Orthodoxy are having some strange side effects
- Why Islamic debates over slavery matter to everyone
- Despite the abolition of outdated laws, a culture of freedom is failing to take hold
- A cherished tradition of independence can lead to abuses and poor management
- Church leaders in central and eastern Europe remain surprisingly loth to condemn their old adversaryThe extraordinary events of 1989 are half-forgotten as clerics look elsewhere
- It offers a fixed point in a transitory world
- From the Roman to the Abrahamic, the prime minister’s spiritual history is a mess
- Building bridges between an anti-racist movement and a conservative faith
- Security is one thing to a Black mother in a favela, another to a politician keen on law and order. They should be the sameBy Olúfẹ́mi O TáíwòRead at Aeon
- Near Area 51 in Nevada, UFO enthusiasts gather in their hundreds, seeking meaning and connection – human or otherworldlyBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- The Harrisons’ eco-art told stories about the apocalypse, pointing to a future where we’d all have to be survival artistsBy W Patrick McCrayRead at Aeon
- Once used to hide subversive messages, the Renaissance technique of anamorphosis proved everything is a matter of perspectiveBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- A generation of pagan bureaucrats amassed wealth and status while Roman emperors Christianised the world around themBy Edward WattsRead at Aeon
- Ten-year-old Pien – small, industrious and fighting to survive – finds kinship with the honeybees she keepsBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?By Laura CrucianelliRead at Aeon
- Vanessa and Virginia – intimates in art, adversaries in love. Can we ever transcend the primal envy of the sisterly bond?By Lily DunnRead at Aeon
- War hero or entitled opportunist? An alternative history of Winston Churchill combines claymation and biting iconoclasmBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- Against the capitalist creeds of scarcity and self-interest, a plan for humanity’s shared flourishing is finally coming into viewBy Dirk PhilipsenRead at Aeon
- When humanities professors wade into legal debates, things go south quickly. Consider, for instance, their charge that “originalism is dumb”
- Gogol was strange but consider his parents: his father was a sort of court jester; his mother believed her son invented both the steamboat and the railroad
- Amis, Barnes, Rushdie, McEwan — the British baby-boomers sink towards senescence with a wave of nostalgic, self-indulgent prose
- The slow agonies of respiratory disease, like the swift drama of plague, can inspire great art
- Delve into Nabokov’s letters and lectures, and a familiar, impertinent question will occur: Was he a pervert?
- The Theory Wars of the ’90s never ended; they just migrated from Diacritics to Twitter. There’s no end in sight
- Self-discipline, civility, and reason: these Stoic practices may allow us to live better. But don’t underestimate the value of anger
- Across five volumes totaling 2,500 pages, Joseph Frank did more than any other critic to illuminate the mind of Dostoevsky
- Being an editor requires two qualities that rarely coexist in the same person, says Norman Podhoretz: arrogance and selflessness
- “Journalism is the real Minotaur … It demands every year a fresh supply of young men and women: devours them … and is ready for another batch”
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- Goings-on in intellectual history for late October and early November. The post Intellectual History News and Events appeared first on JHI Blog.
- by guest contributor Felicia Denaud The post Renegade Gestation: Writing Against the Procedures of Intellectual History appeared first on JHI Blog.
- by guest contributor Damarius Johnson The post Black Museums as Knowledge Sites: Three Museum Histories appeared first on JHI Blog.
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