How To Think About Science.

A great radio series – I only listened to a few of these, but it’s very thought-provoking and for general public (like myself):  If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything [...]

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Everyone loves Levinas: CFP

While “societies” based around a single philosopher often result in old fashioned philosophical hagiography, it’s too bad that it looks like I will have exhausted my travel funds by then, but regardless, er..FYI: NORTH AMERICAN LEVINAS SOCIETY Fourth Annual Conference and Meeting: “Philosophy and Its Others” June 28-30, 2009 University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) The [...]

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“Gratuitous Mischief:” Tenured Faculty

I came across an article in The Symptom (over at lacan.com) entitled “Towards a Theory of the Tenured Class,” and there were some passages that just made me giggle out loud (I’m not sure because it rings true or because it’s just plain silly-I’m going with a combination of both!). For one: To professors with [...]

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Some Texts I Came Across.

I’m sure people already saw these, but just in case, I came across a couple of text available online in PDF format:

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Boycotts and Other Refusal

Now, this is interesting.  From the Guardian: Nicolas Sarkozy this week faces the first mass-protests over his handling of the financial crisis as unions prepare to paralyse France in a general strike uniting train-drivers, air traffic controllers, journalists, bank staff and even ski-lift operators. “Black Thursday” is the first general strike since the French president’s [...]

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Old New Philosophy.

Terry Pinkard has this translation of Hegel’s advertisement for his then upcoming Phenomenology: This volume is the exposition of the coming to be of knowledge.  The phenomenology of  spirit is supposed to take the place of psychological explanations and also those of abstract discussions about the grounding of knowledge.  It examines the PREPARATION for science from a [...]

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CFP: Deconstruction and Science

The journal Derrida Today is planning a special issue on “Deconstruction and Science” Deadline for submission of 300-word abstract: 30 June 2009 Deadline for submission of paper (no more than 6000 words): 30 November 2009 Co-edited by: Nicole Anderson Critical and Cultural Studies Department Macquarie University, Australia General Editor, Derrida Today H. Peter Steeves Professor of Philosophy DePaul University, Chicago [...]

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German Question: Pfaffenthum

This is my first real question to our imaginary audience, an important step on the way to the real blogging experience, I am sure, and it deals with a word Pfaffenthum that Kant uses in several places and that is generally translated in the Cambridge edition as “priestcraft” or “popery” (in Notes on Metaphysics, 18:601). [...]

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History Of Philosophy.

Sorry about the apparent overuse of striking through words, but it just looks so much better that way. I came across this interview (.PDF) with Robert Pippin in which he covers some of the issues discussed in the recent posts vis-a-vis history of philosophy and Hegel. Scroll to the back of the file, the interview is the [...]

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Rebels Without A Cause A Pause.

Graham Harman presents his own (semi-serious, I hope) interpretation of the origins of “speculative realism”: I would argue that Ray [Brassier]’s phrase “speculative realism,” which he now likes much less than I do, performs a similar function. There were lots of frustrated ex-continental types out there, bothered and annoyed by something, but they didn’t quite [...]

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