Still thankful
Classics: * Wealth and life expectancy. * Cosmopolitanism and individualism. * The cornucopia. * That progress in understanding political economy is possible.
Musical experience — intriguing example
Adam Curtis at the BBC blog gives us two identical video clips set to very different music. Listen to some of each clip to see whether you experience what Curtis suggests. About the first clip, Curtis says, “I think it gives a sense that we are all together in the dance.” I agree. But the
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John McCrae and Veterans Day
I like David Henderson’s approach to this solemn day of focusing on the individuals involved in wars rather than the often-gestural generalities. Henderson highlights the moving second stanza of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The
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Philosophy of Business: William Kline interview
Professor Kline visited Rockford College on Tuesday to give a talk on four major thinkers — Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith — who in large part established the intellectual framework for our modern business world. Kline is a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Here is my seven-minute follow-up interview with Kline
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Cyberseminar on postmodernism — update
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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Philosophy and Film Series: Crimes and Misdemeanors
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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“Entrepreneurship and Ethics” chapter published
I contributed the “Entrepreneurship and Ethics” chapter to editor Christoph Luetge’s Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (Springer Science+Business Media, 2013). Abstract: Much of the current business ethics literature takes corporations and social responsibility as its key operative concepts. Meanwhile, much of the business and economics literature is moving to seeing entrepreneurship as
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Talk on conflicts and harmonies of interest
Today I’ll be giving a talk for the Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence on the topic of “Non-Profits & Conflicts and Harmonies of Interest.” The talk is at 4 p.m. in Grace Roper Lounge.
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