Posted in ethics on June 16th, 2008 No Comments »
High spirits | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Outside its quotation marks, Baudelaire’s argument is nowadays almost impossible to make publicly. But before the statisticians and their nannies eclipse all possibility of praising drunkenness - beyond the prim encomiums to the health benefits of an occasional glass of red wine - it is worth pausing to […]
Posted in lit, ethics on June 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Last Night’s TV: Imagine…Doris Lessing – The Hostess And The Alien, BBC1
I approached the film a little warily, nervous that it might settle for the clichés of formidable old age, indifferent to social and cultural convention. I’d reckoned without Doris Lessing, whose entire life seems to have been conducted with a wild daring, and […]
Posted in ethics on June 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Book Review - ‘The Drunkard’s Walk,’ by Leonard Mlodinow - Review - NYTimes.com
When statistics are used in a court of law the effect can be just as misleading. Mlodinow recalls the O. J. Simpson trial, in which the prosecution depicted the defendant as an inveterate wife abuser. One of Simpson’s lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, countered with […]
Posted in world, ethics on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
A nose for Nazis | Comment is free
The truth is that the Fritzl horror reveals precisely nothing about the Austrian people - but the rabid reaction to the Fritzl horror reveals a great deal about the sense of loss, confusion, desperation and chauvinism amongst opinion-formers here at home.
I wonder what Thomas Bernhard would […]
Posted in design, zeitgeist, ethics, value, pic on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Smile and kiss your right to privacy goodbye (according to David Byrne)
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Posted in ethics on December 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Appiah introduces the trend towards a more experimental approach to philosophy and uses the famous sense and reference debate to illustrate how this has been applied:
In one of the most famous arguments of postwar philosophy of language, Saul Kripke addressed a question that had long preoccupied philosophers: how do names refer to people or things? […]
Posted in world, zeitgeist, ethics on January 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
You couldn’t have made recent headlines up. Poor lib dems. First Charles Kennedy, then that gay rent boy habit, there’s Menzies Campbell generally, which has the unfortunate habit of giving the whole party the air of a nursing home, and now Lembit Opik, weak-chinned ‘wild-man’ of the Liberal Democrats, is dating one of the pair […]
Posted in ethics on November 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Browsing and noticed that the admirably blunt Simon Blackburn has written a review of Pinker’s BLANK SLATE for the The New Republic.
Worth a look, I’m sure.
Download the text file - [right click and then “Save Link As’].
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