Tag Archives: Unethical Philosophy

IOS Regenerates!

3rd
May. × ’13
By Roderick

So, there is a new good thing in the world. Back in 1990, in the wake of the Peikoff-Kelley split and Truth and Toleration, David Kelley founded the Institute for Objectivist Studies as an alternative to the rigidly dogmatic Ayn Rand Institute. (I assume I don’t have to explain to readers of this blog what [...]

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A Pattern of Insubordinate Behaviour

2nd
May. × ’13
By Roderick

I saw Oblivion the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light …. It was pretty good, though the metaphysical issue was handled somewhat carelessly – and I could have done without the opening narration, which tells us nothing we can’t figure out as we go along if we’re paying attention. Plus [...]

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Pensacola: The Choice of a New Generation

29th
Apr. × ’13
By Roderick

The 2013 meeting of the Alabama Philosophical Society will be October 11-12 in Pensacola. Paper submission deadline: August 2. Details here.

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Sympathy for the Devil?

10th
Mar. × ’13
By Roderick

A question that Christian children sometimes (and Christian adults too seldom) ask is whether, if they should pray for their enemies, that means that they should pray for Satan – i.e., pray for Satan’s eventual reformation and redemption. The traditional answer is that angels’ mode of existence, between time and eternity, is such that their [...]

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North By Left

1st
Mar. × ’13
By Roderick

Today and tomorrow I’m attending the Auburn Philosophy Department’s 5th annual conference, this one on “Theoretical Agency: Issues at the Intersections of Freedom and Belief”; schedule here. After that I’m off to Hanover College, Indiana, at the invitation of John Ahrens, to give two talks, one on Milton Friedman’s critique of corporate social responsibility (for [...]

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Caffeinated Resurrection

14th
Nov. × ’12
By Roderick

It’s time for more Philosophy at the Gnu’s Room! (I forgot to announce our last one, “Philosophy & Technology,” Oct. 24.) Tonight’s session (Weds., Nov. 14, at 5:00 p.m.) is a panel of Dead Philosophers, at which various department members will be representing their favourite dead philosophers. I’ll be playing Aristotle. Come on by!

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