A new feature from the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Kaizen Weekly Review. Edited by Virginia Murr, the review highlights news in business ethics and entrepreneurship as well as CEE activities. This week’s inaugural edition features Shawn Klein on Lance Armstrong, Alexei Marcoux’s Business Ethics Journal Review, William Kline on Liberty Studies, entrepreneur Judy Estrin’s […]
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Prompted by Eduardo Marty’s link to this discussion of postmodernism and libertarianism, here are updated links to my 1999 cyberseminar on The Continental Origins of Postmodernism, conducted while I was on sabbatical and Scholar-in-Residence at the Atlas Society. Abstract for the course: For this 1999 online seminar “The Continental Origins of Postmodernism,” TAS Director of
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The Philosophy and Film Series presents Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, starring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, and Anjelica Houston. My colleagues Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm will host a screening of the film and a discussion of its philosophical themes. Date and Time: November 8, screening at 6 p.m. and discussion
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Professors Shawn Klein and Michael Perry — my colleagues in Philosophy and English Literature — are co-hosting the 1st Annual Rockford College Sports Studies Symposium: An interdisciplinary conference on the study of Sport, to be held at Rockford College on April 28, 2012 from 10 am to 2 pm. Panel #1 Chairperson: Shawn E. Klein
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My colleagues Shawn Klein and Michael Perry have issued a Call for Abstracts for the First Annual Rockford College Sports Studies Symposium, an interdisciplinary conference on the study of sport to be held on April 28, 2012 at Rockford College. From the CFA: Whether one is a participant, a casual spectator, a die-hard fan, or
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Matthew Flamm and Shawn Klein, my two Philosophy colleagues at Rockford College, will be leading a discussion group on Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1872 The Birth of Tragedy and his 1887 Genealogy of Morals. The image links to the flyer (designed by Christopher Vaughan) with the schedule and location information. Both books are wonderfully provocative. So if
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The Department of Philosophy at Rockford College announces a new minor track in Ethics [pdf]. Our department’s faculty members have strength in a wide range of philosophical areas, but all of us have special expertise in ethics, so we have put together an option for students wishing to concentrate in that area. Introduction to Ethics,
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Check it out (pdf). It’s a trifold design, with panels featuring my colleagues Matt Flamm, Shawn Klein, and me, the courses we teach, a list of famous philosophy majors in college, and more. Designed by Christopher Vaughan. (I want to live that library. Right now.)
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