Hallowe’en joke
My son and I made up a word-play joke for the season: Question: What do you call a ghost with bad manners? Answer: Eerie-tating. (Hilarious, especially if you’re a five-year-old.)
Michael Strong and Magatte Wade to speak at Rockford College
On Wednesday, November 3, Michael Strong and Magatte Ward will speak at Rockford College. Michael Strong’s talk is titled “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.” Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., a non-profit
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University of Guelph bragging rights
I have fond memories of my undergraduate institution, the University of Guelph in Canada. It’s a beautiful campus, I got a wide-ranging liberal arts education, and the Philosophy Department was intellectually diverse and (mostly) competent. (Another alumni, John Kenneth Galbraith, was apparently not so impressed with his time there.) Check out pages 48-52 of this
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A 3 a.m. poem, toward the end of autumn
In a Japanese mood, on a still, moonlit night, near the end of autumn. Not for nothing Did the red leaf fall.
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My review of Gibson’s Ethics and Business now online
My four-page review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Teaching Philosophy. Here now is a PDF of the review. From my introduction: “Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics, so this is a mainstream
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Wilkinson on free speech versus equality
At The Economist web log, Will Wilkinson has a good piece on Rawlsian egalitarian arguments against free speech. The firing of Juan Williams makes perfect sense in that framework, as does the left’s outrage over the Citizens United decision. Wilkinson rightly notes the principled outcome of that framework: “it seems to me that this conception
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Kindle version of Explaining Postmodernism published
The Kindle version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available. The book had a gratifying two hardcover printings and eight softcover printings from 2004-2009, and I am finalizing an expanded edition to be published in hardcover in the spring of 2011. Here’s the book description: “Tracing postmodernism from
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Sir Ken Robinson on factory schools
A stimulating, 11:40-minute animated talk by Ken Robinson. I have qualms about some of Robinson’s intellectual-history-of-education claims, but his portrait of mainstream contemporary education (especially the repulsive cop-out that is the ADHD “epidemic”) and his prescriptions for reform are bang-on accurate. [Which reminds me of my extended series on the philosophy and history of education.]
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