The EirePreneur, one of my favorite bloggers from Ireland, conducted an interesting investigation in his post, “How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web.” As he writes, “I decided to test what intelligence might be evident in the del.icio.us social bookmarking service.” From Steven Pinker (who I hate) to Steven Johnson (whose Emergence I [...]
February 22, 2006 – 03:19 pm
Francis Fukuyama has written an intriguing article over in the NY Times magazine, entitled “After Neoconservatism.” As former neoconservative theorist, Fukuyama argues that with the Iraq conflict, the ideology that won the cold war has come to threaten peace, and asks if the movement can turn away from militarism and toward a more durable use [...]
February 7, 2006 – 01:52 am
Dawn is the teacher’s assistant for a Feminist Philosophy class at Green Mountain College this semester. She had the idea to put together a class blog for the course, where she would post links to news articles and intriguing questions about the week’s assignment, and the professor of the class thought it was a great [...]
December 15, 2005 – 11:51 pm
“In metaphysics, a being is in a relation with what it cannot absorb, with what it cannot, in the etymological sense, comprehend.” - Emmanuel Levinas, Totality & Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.
What is the ontological status of that space where the software meets the hardware? I’m not speaking technically here. Technically, that space is way [...]
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December 14, 2005 – 11:51 pm
As near as I can tell, the entire philosophy of neo-pragmatism is based on the assumption that philosophy is supposed to work. But for the life of me, I’m not 100% sure what it is that philosophy is supposed to work on. I suspect that it is a theory of “judgment,†but again, I’m not [...]
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Also tagged Books, deconstruction, derrida, elgin, epistemology, john_dewey, love, postmodernism, pragmatism, putnam, richard_rorty
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December 2, 2005 – 06:21 pm
I’m three minutes and twenty-four seconds into the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album, E 1999 Eternal, and it is exactly what I want to hear when I put on hip-hop/rap. In the words of this white boy in Vermont, rap don’t get no better than this.
And the best part is that I didn’t even know it until [...]
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