Reprising this opening to my essay “How Can We Make Entrepreneurs?”: “As a kid, Steve Jobs hated school. Many of us can relate, even if we are not brilliant business innovators. School bored the young Jobs painfully, and he reacted by engaging in acts of disobedience and defiance. ‘I was pretty bored in school,’ he […]
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Last year, philosopher Marc Champagne published the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and contributed a blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s hugely ambitious project to integrate modern science with
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The American Philosophical Association’s Central Division meets in Chicago this year at the Palmer House Hilton. On February 23, the American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society has a panel based on my two journal articles (here and here) arguing for and against liberalism: Topic: Arguments For and Against Liberalism Chair: Shawn Klein (Arizona
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Dr. Carrie-Ann Biondi of Marymount Manhattan College visited Rockford University to give a lecture sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. While she was here, I interviewed her about how she became a philosopher, Aristotle, the relationship between abstract and applied philosophy, how she teaches her ethics course, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter, Plato, and
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The new issue of Reason Papers (38:1) has an interesting symposium on the Philosophy of Play, with discussions by Christopher C. Kirby and Brolin Graham, William Schultz, Aaron Harper, and Francisco Javier Lopez Frias. I also have a long-ish article in which I make fifteen arguments against my own liberal philosophy: “Liberalism: The Fifteen Strongest
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On April 25, Rockford University is hosting the Third Annual Sports Studies Symposium. The symposium is organized by Professor Shawn Klein (Philosophy) and Professor Michael Perry (English) and is free and open to all students, faculty, and the general public. More information at the Sports Ethicist site.
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Entrepreneurial Logistics in Panama The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with Surse Pierpoint. We met in Panama City to discuss Mr. Pierpoint’s experience working in the Free Trade Zone, the Panama Canal’s history and major expansion project, and worldwide trends in transportation and logistics. My favorite image from this issue is below,
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Sports Studies Symposium 2014 — Call for Abstracts
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