Philosophers’ Corner

  • The Post-Modern Family Values: Open Blog Entry

    One used to think of a family as one of the primary means of transmitting values from generation to generation. One might have thought, in fact, that that is one of the primary things that family is for. Of course, it has other functions — providing for its members daily material and psychological needs prime among them.

  • Work and the Self

    I said something during the episode that certainly could have been said more clearly about getting the proportions right. On the one hand, there’s how much of the time available to one, one’s work will take. There are only so many hours in a day, week, or life. How many of the hours of one’s day will one allow one’s work to consume? Work also consumes the self. And there’s only so much of the self to go around too.

  • Pornography: Open Thread

    Blogging has been light around here as of late — what with our gang’s various…

  • Torture

    Although we have not had, and don’t have scheduled in the near future, a program…

  • Two Skeptical Arguments

    Posted by John Greco I’ve been claiming that there are some really powerful skeptical arguments…

  • The Place of Scepticism and Sceptical Arguments

    I should start with a confession about my philosophical tastes. I tend not to find epistemology the most gripping of philosophical subjects. Roughly, epistemology has to do with the nature of knowledge. And a big part of epistemology historically has been devoted to answering the sceptic who challenges us to say whether and how we can know anything at all.

  • Thoughts on the Reader

    Thanks to everybody who made our  First Annual Dionysus Awards Show  such a success.  It was…