fieldus

Has bad philosophy killed the Booker prize? | Books | guardian.co.uk
Recently, the British philosopher Simon Critchley gave a lecture at the inaugural Speakers’ Corner held at the Paradise Row gallery in East London. There’s something a little out of the ordinary right there. It’s that juxtaposition of the words “British” and “philosopher”.
It sits uncomfortably with [...]

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? [...]

Peter Wollen notes,
“Visual display is the other side of the spectacle, the side of production rather than consumption or reception.
Guy Debord, the theorist of spectacle, noted how, in modern times, an excess of display has the effect of concealing the truth of the society that produces it, providing the viewer with an unending stream of [...]

Semi interesting musings on the difference between unhappiness and despair from Kieran Setiya.
The nub of the argument:
—————
…if despair is unhappiness about the impossibility of achieving some good, the good must be an object of commitment – or else irrelevant to one’s happiness – and so it must be something one thinks one could achieve. At [...]

I stumbled across this article on the meaning of life by Richard Taylor.
I will write a comment tomorrow.