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May 18, 2018existentialism

Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience

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January 29, 2016existentialism

Friday on my Mind

In popular culture, and especially in music, the days of the week of particular significance are Mondays and Fridays. The former has downbeat, dread-like connotations, as in “Blue Monday” (Dave Bartholomew, performed by Fats Domino) and “I Don’t Like Mondays” (Bob Geldof, performed by The Boomtown Rats). In contrast, Friday has an air of promise and…

July 29, 2013existentialism, Heidegger

William Barrett on Existentialism

Here is a three part interview led by the ever reliable and precise expositor, Bryan Magee. I’m not sure that things have changed that much since this programme in 1978 in that while Heidegger is fully accepted (and suggestively reinterpreted) by those of us in cognitive science, mainstream analytical philosophy still sees him as a…

July 17, 2012existentialism

Sartre and Camus in New York

This in the NYT. Albert CamusJean-Paul SartreSartreUnited States

April 6, 2008existentialism, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, political philosophy

Philosophy’s stock on the rise

An article in the New York Times reports that philosophy enrollment in the US is significantly up. In an age of overly early specialization and technocratic training purely instrumental to the job market, this is reassuring. This said, I’m sure there are departments and courses that fit the profile of: “People sitting under trees and…

October 3, 2007existentialism, Nietzsche, videos

BBC Nietzsche Documentary

Part of the BBC’s Human All Too Human series on existentialist thinkers (50 minutes). Features the late Reg Hollingdale, Nietzsche’s translator, who I first met at the founding of the Nietzsche Society of Great Britain. We met next when Reg stepped in at the last minute to give a wonderfully compelling talk about his life’s work as…