Summer Reading List 2009
June 14, 2009
Even if you’re not going to Biarritz for the summer as usual, you can relax…
Hildegard von Bingen
September 20, 2026
Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th century mystic, polymath, and composer whose work spanned visionary theology, philosophy, cosmology, medicine, botany, and music. Her extraordinary intellectual accomplishments belie her humble claim to be “just a woman”. Was her humility justified in the face of the divine,…
The Mind and the World
June 7, 2009
What kinds of contact can the mind have with the world? Can we know how…
Flirting with Philosophy
May 31, 2009
What is flirting? Can you flirt without intending to? Can you flirt by dressing a…
Aging and the Well-Lived Life
May 24, 2009
Aging is a physical process that will always be with us. But conceptions of aging,…
Capital Punishment
April 26, 2009
The death penalty: An effective deterrent? A just retribution for horrendous crimes? Or a racist,…
Can Science Explain Consciousness?
April 19, 2009
Humans are conscious, billiard balls are not, and computers aren’t either. But all three are…
Where Does Morality Come From?
March 29, 2009
Time is the most familiar thing in the world, and yet philosophically one of the…
The Root of All Evil?
March 29, 2009
Money makes the world go around. But what sort of thing is money? Bits of…
Science, Ethics, and Censorship
March 22, 2009
Science is, on the one hand, a huge enterprise funded to a great extent by…
The Copyright Wars
March 22, 2009
Today there is an entire generation of people who have never paid for music. From…
Skepticism
March 15, 2009
Various forms of skepticism play important roles in the history of philosophy. Do we really…
Immortality and the Afterlife
February 15, 2009
Many religions contemplate some form of personal continued existence after death: reincarnation in another body,…
The Movie Show
February 8, 2009
Movies play a large role in modern life. We enjoy watching them; we idolize the…
The Judiciary in Democracy
February 1, 2009
In many democracies, the judiciary is protected, to one degree or another, from the voters. …
Mental Imagery
December 28, 2008
In the Early Modern period many philosophers took ideas to be mental images of the…
Animal Minds
December 21, 2008
People have strong but divergent opinions about the nature of animals’ minds. Do dogs make…
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