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Category Archives: Philosophy
Libertarians and Race Realism
In “Libertarians and Race Realism“, Gilbert Cavanaugh provides a good overview of how and where the two movements have intersected: For those of us who enjoy a touch of libertarianism, the news of Jared Taylor’s recent appearance at Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s … Continue reading
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The Professor & The Student
I refer to Thomas Nagel often in this blog, and his seminal “What Is It Like To Be A Bat? article singlehandedly launched the New Mysterians movement in philosophy of mind, but my absolute favorite New Mysterian philosopher is Colin … Continue reading
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Paul Gottfried: Brief Bio
In Front Porch Republic is a brief article on “What You Need to Know about Paul Gottfried“: It is necessary to historicize Gottfried in order to understand the nature of his criticisms. He became friends with Russell Kirk during his … Continue reading
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Bring Back Existentialism
Before the Humanities became all-consumed with literary ‘theory’ and then become trapped, still so today, in a cesspool of politicized postmodernism (race/class/gender), genuine issues of life and death were the focus. In “Let’s Bring Back Existentialism“, Peter Lawler argues for … Continue reading
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Camus’ Algerian Legacy
From an article on Algeria’s cultural snubbing of Albert Camus’ Algerian legacy is this nice paragraph about the arc of Camus’ oevre: “There is a Camus for every stage of life,” says Kaplan, trying to explain Camus’ staying power and … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Conversation
Nigel Warburton has a nice article that contrasts the legends of western philosophy being created in extreme solitude with the historical, and necessary, communal dialectic.
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A.J. Ayer vs. Mike Tyson
From an article on burgeoning philosophy clubs (alas, in the U.K. and not so much in the U.S.) is this great, even if apocryphal, tale: AJ Ayer, author of Language, Truth and Logic, was 77 when he took on Mike … Continue reading
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Team Nagel
I can’t recall the last time a single work of philosophy has generated so much A-level commentary. I, for one, am on Team Nagel. William Carroll, a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of Oxford, … Continue reading
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Gottfried, Strauss, and Jewish Ethnocentrism
The excellent Paul Gottfried, a retired professor of humanities, is that most rare specimen in intelligentsia: a jew who is honest and forthright about jewish ethnocentrism and its historical suppression of Protestant ethnocentrism. Having written the recent book Leo Strauss … Continue reading
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Tallis on Nagel
Raymond Tallis provides a good overview of the important contributions Thomas Nagel brings to philosophy of mind, a discipline largely dominated by reductive materialists.
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