My colleague Kelly Jolley’s anthology Wittgenstein: Key Concepts has just been published. I have a couple of pieces in it. Here’s the table of contents: Introduction: Kelly Dean Jolley [my AU colleague] 1. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Remarks: Kelly Dean Jolley 2. Wittgenstein on Meaning and Meaning-Blindness: Craig Fox 3. Language Games and Private Language: Lars Hertzberg [...]
The entry on Ayn Rand that Neera Badhwar and I co-authored for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now online. While we each wrote a bit of everything, Neera was the principal author for the sections on ethics and social-political philosophy, as well as for the biographical section, while I was the principal author for [...]
I never actually knew what itching was for, so I looked it up. According to this article, it’s thought to be an evolutionary mechanism that is sending the signal something is happening on your skin that’s like a bug crawling on your skin, so go flick that bug off before it bites you. (Of course, [...]
“I don’t try to make you believe something you don’t believe, but to make you do something you won’t do.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein “Over and over, you’re falling, and then catching yourself from falling. And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.” — Laurie Anderson I’ve written before about [...]
Check out a couple of amusing – and terrifyingly insightful – essays on procrastination, here and here, by philosopher John Perry (author of the best of the Hackett dialogues). I’m posting this instead of grading term papers.
On Friday the 12th I’m off to Prague for the PCPE (which means I’ll unfortunately miss most of the ASC here in Auburn, though I do plan to drop in on the first day, the 11th). The PCPE doesn’t actually start until the 19th, but its coinciding with my spring break means I can spend [...]
Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings. (Full story here; CHT BMB.) What does it say about me as a crusty cynic that [...]
Two more Cato Unbound posts from me, one a reply to Mike’s latest on whether it’s conceptually incoherent to be indifferent to one’s own interests, and one a belated response to Doug’s earlier question about religion.
The best rap song ever written about the dispute between Hayekian and Keynesian explanations of the business cycle! (Though presumably also the worst rap song ever written about the dispute between Hayekian and Keynesian explanations of the business cycle.) (CHT Elizabeth Brake.)
I’ve been wanting to see Jeff Tucker’s interesting piece on classical liberal themes in Mark Twain in print ever since I heard him present a version of it at the 2006 ASC. Now it’s up!
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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