Wed 7.13.11| Early Walter Benjamin
Human consciousness, creativity, development, and organization: So many facets of the human condition interested Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), whose insights into the big questions of modern existence...
View ArticleMon 1.16.12 | Black Bodies, White Gazes
Black bodies have been stereotyped, criminalized, and rendered invisible by what George Yancy calls the white gaze. In a recent book Yancy explores, among other things, the lived experiences of African...
View ArticleWed 1.25.12 | The Sublime in Art and Politics
What's this notion called the sublime? What does it mean to have a sublime response to something, and why has interest in the sublime waxed and waned? According to Iain Boyd Whyte, the sublime can be...
View ArticleWed 5.29.13 | Regarding Animals
We've all heard about human rights, but what about animal rights? What rights do animals, should animals, have, and what stands in the way of their realization? And how does the US compare with other...
View ArticleTues 6.18.13 | Rethinking Ecology
Gaia theory holds that the Earth is a living, self-regulating system, a whole much bigger than the sum of its parts. Timothy Morton dares to challenge not only that perspective's holism, but also the...
View ArticleMon 7.08.13 | What's the Good Life?
Many philosophers over the years and centuries have urged us to live a good life. But they've often disagreed about what a good life consists of. Thomas Hurka maintains that there are four intrinsic...
View ArticleWed 1.01.14 | Regarding Animals
We've all heard about human rights, but what about animal rights? What rights do animals, should animals, have, and what stands in the way of their realization? And how does the US compare with other...
View ArticleWed 1.07.15 | What's the Good Life?
Many philosophers over the years and centuries have urged us to live a good life. But they've often disagreed about what a good life consists of. Thomas Hurka maintains that there are four intrinsic...
View ArticleTues 4.28.15 | Heidegger, the Personal, and the Political
We often act in isolation, or feel like we do. According to Scott Cameron, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger emphasized the social meaning and significance of individual actions. Cameron uses...
View ArticleWed 11.11.15 | Buddhist Thought, Robot Ethics
If it's just a matter of time before humans create self-aware, artificially intelligent machines and robots, then what can Buddhist thought offer to that enterprise? James Hughes thinks Buddhist...
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