How Star Wars Illuminates Constitutional Law (and Authorship) – New Rambler Review
How Star Wars Illuminates Constitutional Law (and Authorship) – New Rambler Review.
“There’s a Twinge in My Chest:” Mad Men Goes in Circles
“There’s a Twinge in My Chest:” Mad Men Goes in Circles By James B. South Last week in my discussion of “Severance,” I noted that Mad Men seemed to be winding down, showing us that the future of the world was artificial and that the lives of the characters, their motivations, desires, and actions were resistant…
Is Fake All That’s Real? Mad Men Winds Down
Is Fake All That’s Real? Mad Men Winds Down By James B. South When Rod Carveth and I edited Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as it Seems, we could not have foreseen that the show’s historical time period would extend to 1970. As the final half of its last season begins, though, it’s…
Transcendence with The Boys in the Boat
Transcendence with The Boys in the Boat Harmonizing the Team and the Individual (Reposted from Psychology Today) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown is a terrific underdog story about how the University of Washington crew team became national champions and eventually Olympic gold medal winners in 1936. I’m sure there will be…
Memo to Frank Underwood
Memo to Frank Underwood Your plan to cut entitlements by $500 billion and use the money to ‘create’ jobs won’t work. Why not use it to cut payroll taxes across the board instead? By Peter Lewin The consensus verdict on season 3 of Netflix’s House of Cards will arrive in due course. I will…
On killing virtual dogs
Great excerpt from How You Play the Game, over at the following link: On killing virtual dogs
Philosopher Decodes Modest Mouse
Check this out: A UGA Philosopher professor decodes 5 Modest Mouse songs.
If There Are 50 Shades of Grey…
…Why are there no empowering words for vagina? By William Irwin [originally posted over at Psychology Today] I read Fifty Shades of Grey because I wanted to see what all the fuss is about, and I hoped I might be titillated. The book didn’t excite me, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. The trilogy…
REOPENED: Call for Abstracts: Minecraft and Philosophy
[Deadline for Abstracts extended to March 23rd 2015] Minecraft and Philosophy Edited by Ian Schnee The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and re-post widely Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium. Submission…
Humans of New York and Philosophy
Humans of New York and Philosophy How to See a Face By Roberto Sirvent and Duncan Reyburn Even in our image-saturated world, the face remains the primary signal of identity. From infancy, the face initiates that all-important moment of genuine recognition. We find ourselves mirrored in the lives of others as they welcome us into…
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 