When I was a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1990s, I was an occasional guest host on a public affairs program of the local PBS station. In 1997 I interviewed the philosopher Richard Rorty. This afternoon, with the help of Emory graduate student Karen McCarthy, I finally got around… Continue reading Richard Rorty 1997 on Democracy and Philosophy
Month: January 2015
Neoliberalism and the Mail
The conservative / neoliberal attack on public sector enterprises, namely the United States Postal Service, has worked so well that now I, a leftie, am hating the US Postal Service. They are clearly understaffed and so I see mail carriers trying to deliver the goods as late as 8 p.m. God bless them. But when… Continue reading Neoliberalism and the Mail
On Nothing
Purging all the detritus in my home office, I wonder whether it’s time to get rid of my 4-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Surely with the new online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy this is just taking up shelf space. But I do love this one entry, even though I completely disagree with it, because it is… Continue reading On Nothing
20th century philwiki rocks a sinking boat
Even as I try to ignore those mean spirits, today I went to a certain blog and found this delightful bit: More PhD program wikis! Now we have 20th-century Continental philosophy, started by (brace yourselves) Noelle McAfee. Fortunately, since a wiki is just as good as its contributors it does not matter who started it. … Continue reading 20th century philwiki rocks a sinking boat
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