Monday, July 23, 2018
The 'New Questions of Philosophy' - Daily Nous
The 'New Questions of Philosophy' - Daily Nous: “What subjects are now being confronted at the frontiers of philosophical inquiry, breaking from the familiar philosophical concerns of canonical figures like Plato, Locke, and Descartes?” That was a question raised recently by the editors of “The Masthead,” a new member-based media program at The Atlantic. One of those editors, Caroline Kitchener, sought examples of such subjects from philosophers Elizabeth Harman (Princeton) and Andrew Janiak (Duke), who share them here. Professor Harman discusses love: While philosophers have traditionally discussed the nature of love, philosophers today are taking seriously its lived reality, and the implications of that reality. Love is not just romantic love between two people. The lived reality of love includes polyamorous love, love between siblings, love between friends, love of fetuses and children, and many other types and forms of love. Considering love as it is actually lived leads us to new questions: such as how we should recognize the loving relationships of others, and how we should treat the objects of love. Professor Janiak discusses the work on heretofore ignored women in the history of philosophy: The old idea that women never produced any important works of philosophy is increasingly being revealed as a sham. The historical record is full of treatises, plays, poems, and letters written by women who contributed to philosophy over the past few centuries, from Margaret Cavendish in E...
The Protestant Origins of Dysfunctional Education - Crisis Magazine
The Protestant Origins of Dysfunctional Education - Crisis Magazine: As a former boarding school teacher, this time of year brings memories of enormous frustration at the chaos, moral and intellectual, that is contemporary American education. While the general disorder is the fault of Adam and Eve, the particular mess has much to do with Luther and Calvin, who not only spawned the Protestant Reformation …
Why Are We So Unhappy? - Crisis Magazine
Why Are We So Unhappy? - Crisis Magazine: The recent spate of suicides by the rich and famous is a symptom of our growing sense of gloom. We enjoy social, technological, and economic conditions that would have been considered utopian less than a century ago. Yet, unhappiness, and even depression, are at record levels. Why? In his impressively researched book, The Progress Paradox, …
Sunday, July 22, 2018
How Is a Man Not Like a Computer? - Crisis Magazine
How Is a Man Not Like a Computer? - Crisis Magazine: I have just read a fascinating and, to my mind, cheerful article, by the research psychologist Robert Epstein, on why your brain is not a computer—for the simple reason that your brain does not store memories in the way that a computer does, nor does it function according to algorithms. We are not computers but …
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