On November 13 at 4 p.m., Martin Coleman will be visiting Rockford University. Professor Coleman is a leading expert on the philosophy of George Santayana (he of the “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” line) and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Indiana University — Purdue University in Indianapolis. […]
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Dois escândalos sexuais em departamentos de filosofia têm, de certa forma, escandalizado o mundo acadêmico nos últimos dias. Um deles, na Universidade de Miami na Flórida, levou à renúncia do professor Colin McGinn. O outro, na Universidade do Colorado, Boulder, resultou na substituição do chefe do departamento, Graeme Forbes. O caso do professor McGinn diz
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Esclarecimento inicial: eu sou um filósofo e essa nova coluna no site The Good Life tratará de tópicos como a natureza humana, o conhecimento, o sentido da vida e, é claro, a política. Permitam-me começar citando algumas das opiniões de meus colegas sobre a política. O jogo favorito dos filósofos é discutir qual foi o
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From November 3-8, I will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina to give five seminars in connection with the release of Explicando el Pósmodernismo, la crisis del socialismo, which is the Spanish translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The event wil be held at the Universidad del CEMA. A number
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Rape is among the most horrific of crimes. Sex should be a fun and beautiful thing – but rape takes that most personal of experiences and turns it into a degradation. “There is moderately good news about the number of rapes in the USA. According to the
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The Spanish translation of Explicando el Posmodernismo is now out, and here is the publisher’s site for the book. Also, here’s information about the other editions and translations: English expanded edition, Persian, Swedish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, audiobook, e-book, and more.
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “After beating up on some ‘left’ icons (here, here, and here, for example), it’s time to give some grief to the ‘right.’ “American political vocabulary tends to sort people into liberals on the left and conservatives on the right. All are big-tent labels, and we argue continuously
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA 1º Argumento Primeiro, vamos definir nossos termos. Por “liberalismo” nos referimos a um conjunto de princípios que são institucionalizados. Os cientistas políticos falam desses princípios de forma sistemática. Entre eles está o Estado de Direito, isto é,
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