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February 28, 2014philosophers, philosophical fiction, philosophical jurisprudence, philosophical literature, philosophical logic, philosophical psychology, philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy of biology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of education, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, philosophy of time

Why Study Philosophy?

This from The Atlantic. Philosophyphilosophy of economicsPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of historyPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPhilosophy of sciencephilosophy of social science

January 17, 2012philosophers, photography, steve pyke

Review of Steve Pyke’s Philosophers

On several occasions I’ve featured Steve Pyke’s work – Habermas of two posts back has been Pyked. Here is a review by a philosopher of Steve’s book. There is also brief mention in The New Yorker. The image featured above is of course Jerry Fodor. habermasJerry FodorPhilosophersPhilosophysteve pyke

May 31, 2011aesthetics, Arthur Danto, philosophers, philosophy, steve pyke

Danto on Pyke

Here’s an article by none other than Arthur Danto on the wonderful work of photographer Steve Pyke.

May 16, 2011alcohol, beer, eric idle, philosophers, philosophy of mind, qualia, roger scruton, steven hales, wine

Beer and Philosophy or Drinking and Thinking

Here’s an article from the Huffington Post. Of course, we all know that booze and the philosopher are close friends. Regarding the relationship between the two, there are two schools of thought. 1. that the qualic experience (and alcohol) are part and parcel of creative thought processes. 2. Alcohol is needed to numb the philosopher’s…

November 6, 2010American Philosophical Society, Joseph Bonaparte, napoleon bonaparte, philosophers, philosophy

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Brother member of American Philosophical Society

Here’s a curiosity – Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s elder brother, was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. What association or society (aside from The Royal Society) could claim intellectual giants such as Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Paine and Madison as its members? Here’s Joseph’s obituary from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 6,…

May 10, 2010anarchism, chomsky, cognitive science, humor, libertarian socialist, linguistics, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, satire, the onion, universal grammar

Exhausted Noam Chomsky

Once again, this bit of Onion satire was brought to my attention by my chum David Livingtone Smith.

April 2, 2009New Yorker, philosophers, philosophy, wittgenstein

Genius for misery

Alexander Waugh’s The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War reviewed in the latest The New Yorker. I cannot play when you are in the house, as I feel your skepticism seeping towards me from under the door!

March 2, 2009philosophers, wittgenstein

Young Wittgenstein

This photograph is featured in a recent NYT book review. Photos of Wittgenstein are few and far between so it was nice to see this one of the young Ludwig around 17 or 18 with the family. I also chanced upon the full version of Derek Jarman’s film which I couldn’t find on DVD. I…

November 16, 2008humor, philosophers, philosophical humor, philosophy

Bar Room Philosopher

July 5, 2008Amateur Philosophers, jack vettriano, painting, philosophers

Amateur Philosophers

Jack Vettriano