Caffeinate the State!
Oct 10For my readers in the Auburn area: the Auburn Philosophy Club will be hosting a panel discussion on the subject of “The State” this coming Wednesday, October 12th, 5:00-7:00 p.m., at the Gnu’s Room (the used bookstore and coffeeshop next to Amsterdam Café, near the intersection of Samford and South Gay; map here). The choice [...]
Of Interest to the Stronger
Oct 10I finally paid out the drakhmas to get the proceedings (both print and electronic, so over $100 total) of the Athens conference I went to in 2008. Here’s my contribution: “Thrasymachus and the Relational Conception of Authority” (in Patricia Hanna, ed., An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, vol. 3 (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, [...]
Eye For An Eye
Oct 10Women go crazy for the big blue eye. — Tom Waits, “Eyeball Kid” Here’s an interesting analysis of the Doctor Who finale. I hadn’t thought before of these past two seasons being bookended by gigantic eyeballs with opposite meanings. (Come on, by itself that’s not much of a spoiler.) I could add that the past [...]
Cloaking Device
Oct 10We all know it’s depressing/frustrating to be a libertarian and watch tv. But the same applies to being a philosopher and watching tv. Tonight I half-watched a series of National Geographic specials about vision, memory, illusions, and such. It was fascinating, and all the science in it was sound (AFAIK). But not all the purported [...]
The Revolution Comes to Auburn
Oct 09My comrade Ross Kenyon, of C4SS and ALL fame, is one of the organisers of Occupy Auburn.
Double Standard
Oct 07A picture like this could of course be made for libertarians too – showing libertarians with tax-funded educations walking on tax-funded streets, contacting each other via government postal monopoly, paying for their lunches with federally issued currency, etc. Libertarians understand why that would be a silly argument against anti-government protestors. They really should understand why [...]
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