Snails Run for Love: A Sensual Interlude from the Symphony of Evolution
This is what I saw, now coupled with a perfect soundtrack courtesy of Joan as Police…
NASA Perseverance rover about to land on Mars soon: What to expect – CNET
“During landing, the rover plunges through the thin Martian atmosphere, with the heat shield first, at…
Apple Pay can now be used to spend Bitcoin – CNET
Angela Lang/CNET The addition of cryptocurrency spending to Apple Pay follows an analyst report Monday suggesting…
Love, Loss, and the Banality of Survival: Charles Darwin, His Beloved Daughter, and How We Find Meaning in Mortality
Dr. Gully’s treatment, developed in response to his two-year-old daughter’s death, included the vehement disavowal of…
New: The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies
The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies is a new semi-annual, multi-lingual, peer-reviewed philosophy journal. You can learn…
Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Love Letter to Photographer Nickolas Muray, Who Took Her Most Famous Portrait
Nickolas Muray met Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) in 1931, while visiting the prominent…
39 of the best Nintendo Switch games – CNET
Gorogoa is unlike any video game you’ve ever played. With incredible level design and flawlessly tuned…
Rescher Prize Awarded to Thomas Nagel
Rescher Prize recipients are selected by a panel composed of University of Pittsburgh Philosophy faculty, History…
Do “woke” American ideas on race, gender, and post-colonialism really pose an existential threat to France?
Mr. Macron — who had shown little interest in these matters in the past but has…
The Four-Sentence Philosophy Paper
In a 2015 paper, Dennis Earl, professor of philosophy at Coastal Carolina University writes: I learned…
Effort Launched to Save Job of Philosopher at University of St. Andrews
As of the time of this post, the letter has over 900 signatories. An effort is…
When Charles Darwin met Harriet Martineau, she enjoyed a level of influence he could not imagine. And she challenged his dim view of women
Martineau had an unkind reputation for plainness and lack of feminine polish. “I was astonished to…
Cassandra of the internet age: As far back as the mid-’80s, Michael Goldhaber was worried about the attention economy.
His biggest worry, though, is that we still mostly fail to acknowledge that we live in…
Television Show Partners with Philosophers to Explore Philosophy of Religion
The partnership is made possible by an additional £400,000 (approximately 0,000) grant from the John Templeton…
The ur-existentialist. Kierkegaard was torn by his desires for recognition and for walking the path of a self-denying Christian
For all the virtues of this book, I feel compelled to quibble with Carlisle’s claim that…
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Juliet did not say “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore [is he] Romeo?” So why do so many people deface quotes with brackets?
Advertisement [He] know[s] what [he is] thinking: Did he fire six shots or only five? Well,…
How Mary-Kay Wilmers refashioned the London Review of Books in her image: literary and eccentric
But perhaps that is the source of the myth: in a business dominated by men, Wilmers…
Types of Contributions to the Philosophical Literature
Your additions welcome. 27. showing the historical background of a philosophical idea Sandy Goldberg, professor of…
The book pirates of 18th-century France devised a strategy: Republish works by Voltaire. It was “an enterprise of solid gold”
Despite Ostervald’s efforts to make his sales talk sound attractive, it revealed that he had misled…
Ripstein Wins Killam Prize
The Killam Prizes were first awarded in 1981. Philosophers who have won the prize over the…
Philosophy Profs Making Introductory Philosophy Videos for Students & the Public
Professor Linehan’s channel is Let’s Get Logical. It covers various matters relating to logic, of course, as…
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is one of the most prominent classicists of his generation. He’s not sure the field should exist
How these two old civilizations became central to American intellectual life is a story that begins…
Philosophy on Clubhouse
The app hosts an array of audio-only conversations which users can host, participate in, or just…
Did Frege Plagiarize the Stoics?
First, it is vastly more likely that Frege obtained his knowledge of Stoic logic from one…
Did E.E. Cummings’s relationship with a French prostitute really have a serious effect on his work?
Rosenblitt, who has written previously on Cummings’s debt to classical literature, isn’t trying to displace Kennedy…
Silvia Foti’s grandfather is a national hero in Lithuania. He also worked with the Nazis to kill Jews. His story has echoes across Eastern Europe
He did stand up to the Nazis, not by saving Jews but by trying to stymie…
Waheed Hussain (1972-2020)
Waheed Hussain, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has died. Professor Hussain joined…
The Decades-Old Classic That Became the Ultimate Pandemic Poem
Complement with Bishop on why everyone should experience at least one long period of solitude in…