Day: December 9, 2007

In today’s New York Times Magazine, Kwame Anthony Appiah comments on the newborn philosophy movement of experimental philosophy, or “x-phi,” in which philosophers are turning to MRI machines and other laboratory technologies to help unravel philosophical quandaries. This new movement, he reports, has rudely challenged the way professional philosophers like to think of themselves. Not… Continue reading On Armchairs and MRIs