Graduate Student Conference Pop Culture and Philosophy Keynote Speaker: William Irwin, King’s College April 12, 2025 The graduate students of the UAlbany Philosophy department are proud to announce that the topic of The 17th Annual UAPA Grad Student Conference is Pop Culture and Philosophy. All are invited and the conference is open to the public.…
[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…
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 Guidelines: Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and…
House of Cards and Philosophy Why Write about Popular Culture J. Edward Hackett Philosophy is everywhere, but it conceals itself, hidden behind the debates internal to its own activities. There are many reasons why philosophy does not have a higher profile in the wider culture. Let me just suggest a few: First, philosophy is not…
Weeds and Philosophy Pop Aesthetics and Grotesque Beauty Anna Faktorovich I watched all 8 seasons of Weeds on Netflix, and re-watched the first two seasons today, as I did my laundry, shopping and cooking, to grab the screenshots that follow and to refresh my memory for this article. The obvious angle to take on this…
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 