Watch Where You Point That Thing
The recent assassination of cartoonists of the publication Charlie Hebdo was deplorable. Producing humor that…
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Review of Iris Murdoch’s The Nice and the Good
This is a review of Iris Murdoch’s novel, The Nice and the Good (1968). Iris Murdoch…
Ethical Relativism
“What makes a man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born…
Philosophy Meets Literacy Through Positive Coaching
T. R. Girill Society for Technical Communication/Lawrence Livermore National [email protected] Philosophy Meets Literacy Through Positive…
Obituary for Stanford Professor Emeritus David S. Nivison
David Shepherd Nivison, emeritus professor of philosophy, religious studies, and Chinese language at Stanford University,…
The More Good the Better?
Suppose we know what all the goods are. It doesn’t matter whether we are hedonists…
Why Philosophize?
Recently, at a conference in Las Vegas, I was looking out my 29th floor window…
Can Studying Philosophy Make You a Better Person?
One of the many people who is considerably smarter and more productive than I am…
Richard Fletcher, Historian
Richard Fletcher was a rarity among historians. A medievalist, Fletcher published books on Anglo-Saxon England…
My Discovery of the X-Files
I missed the X-Files in its hey-day. The nine seasons running from 1993 to 2002 corresponded almost exactly…
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Last week saw the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, situated…
Teaching Philosophy
The study of philosophy, or the study of what other people have said that gets…
What is philosophy?
I have a few moments. So I want to ask the basic question: What is…
How Fiction Shapes Us
By guest blogger Joshua Landy What, if anything, do works of verbal art—poems, plays, novels,…
Nominations open for the Third Annual Dionysus Awards!
We’re gearing up to record our third annual Dionysus Awards Show. This will be the…
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