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Philosophy of Action - Conferences & Seminars
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This section will be updated from time-to-time, especially if a major event is coming up. However, to see all the relevant current events please see PhilEvents. The Human Agent: Capabilities and Justice. Salzburg (Germany, Jan 10). Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany, Jan 11). Autonomy and Diachronic Agency. Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands,. Power, Time, and Agency. Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester (UK, 17-18 Jan). Abstracts due 31st October 2012. Staging a new field. Unive...
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The Ends of Thought: September 2011
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Thursday, September 15, 2011. Personal Identity, Duplication, and Divine Justice. Posted by Roman Altshuler. Two distinct persons, they cannot both. I haven’t read Mathews’ argument, but only Baker’s short summary of it. Presumably he defends some of his premises, though I can’t imagine how. Here I will just quote Baker’s summary in full (from her “ Death and the Afterlife. Desert, since God must also be just to Himself. Whatever the idea behin...
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The Ends of Thought: Why Bother Talking to Analytic Philosophers?
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Why Bother Talking to Analytic Philosophers? Posted by Roman Altshuler. Continental philosophers interested in communicating with their analytic analytic counterparts sometimes express frustration: why should they. Have to do all the work? To get people who refuse to read Heidegger—obstinately, it seems—to accept that yes, maybe Heidegger had one good idea somewhere? On Heidegger by Simon Blackburn, who seems to have s...
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The Ends of Thought: Critchley: Sinking Like a Stone
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Monday, May 17, 2010. Critchley: Sinking Like a Stone. Posted by Roman Altshuler. Critchley's occasional contributions to the New York Times have never exactly been prime content, but he's now been given a column and has decided to kick it off with a bang. That's the charitable reading, anyway. Less charitably, what the hell? Does the question "What is a Philosopher? But maybe we are on more solid ground when we recall that "philosophy has repe...
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The Ends of Thought: April 2012
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Sunday, April 22, 2012. We're Ranking Non-Continental Continental Journals Now? Posted by Roman Altshuler. Ah, a lovely new Leiter poll, this time ranking " the best journals for scholarship on the post-Kantian traditions in Continental philosophy. Very sensible results, aside from EJP. If you assume that the best way to do scholarship on Continental philosophy is not to do it at all. Oh, sorry, PPR. That only shows that PPR. I'm guessing every...
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The Ends of Thought: January 2012
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Thursday, January 5, 2012. Posted by Roman Altshuler. From a recent IHE article. About the smoker at the APA (for background on the most recent criticisms of the smoker, see here. APA executive director David Schrader] noted the concerns of some women and said there had been informal discussions at the APA. Some had suggested a cash bar instead of free alcohol as a way of tempering bad behavior by making it a bit difficult to drink too much.
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The Ends of Thought: Critchley and Leiter on Continental Origins
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Critchley and Leiter on Continental Origins. Posted by Roman Altshuler. In a recent post. 1 The goal of philosophy in the continental tradition is emancipation, whether individual or societal. 2 “It was felt by post-Kantians like Maimon and Jacobi, and by the German idealists, that Kant had established a series of dualisms in the. Critchley presents this goal as central not only to German Idealism (which it certainly i...
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The Ends of Thought: June 2011
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Thursday, June 9, 2011. X-Phi, True Selves, and what Philosophy is Actually About: Knobe Again. Posted by Roman Altshuler. Unlike certain elements in the philosophy blogosphere, I've been pretty happy with New York Times'. True, a few of the articles have been pretty bad, some haven't been all that enlightening, and I've made my views of the. S editor, Simon Critchley's, contributions to the column known. Featured, interested to read Priest.
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The Ends of Thought: Belated Note on Gutting on the Analytic-Continental Divide
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Belated Note on Gutting on the Analytic-Continental Divide. Posted by Roman Altshuler. I'm guessing everyone who might read this blog caught Gutting's piece on Bridging the Analytic-Continental Divide. Be written more clearly. That's upsetting. I can't speak about Derrida, et al., but quite a bit is lost in most analytic commentaries on Heidegger that I've read- temporality, for example! This is exactly why it's general...
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The Ends of Thought: CFP: Time and Agency
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The Ends of Thought. JOURNEYS TO PHILOSOPHY'S THIRD KINGDOM. Friday, April 22, 2011. CFP: Time and Agency. Posted by Roman Altshuler. J David Velleman, New York University. Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida. John J. Drummond, Fordham University. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:. Causal and teleological theories of action. Action individuation within a stream of activity. Temporality, movement and the life world. Please...