Bookforum Omnivore - Philosophical Inquiry and the Popularity of Philosophy

Here are three different collections of links on philosophy and philosophy-related topics courtesy of Bookforum's Omnivore blog. There are some interesting articles and reviews of some books that look enticing. Enjoy.

Philosophical inquiry

Jul 20 2012  

11:00AM

• A new issue of Childhood and Philosophy is out. 
• Iain Thomson (UNM): In the Future Philosophy Will Be Neither Continental nor Analytic but Synthetic: Toward a Promiscuous Miscegenation of (All) Philosophical Traditions and Styles. 
• Gianni Paganini (UNIPMN): The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Scepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context. 
• Roberto Andorno (Zurich): Do Our Moral Judgements Need to Be Guided by Principles? 
• From Conversations with History, an interview with Samuel Scheffler on philosophical inquiry. 
• A review of The Nature and Future of Philosophy by Michael Dummett. 
• From Brainstorm, is philosophy a science? Michael Ruse investigates (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5). 
• An interview with Patricia Churchland, the really nice guy materialist. 
• A review of The Ultimate Why Question: Why Is There Anything at All Rather than Nothing Whatsoever? 
• A review of Saul Kripke, ed. Alan Berger. 
• The first chapter from Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper.

The popularity of philosophy

Aug 1 2012 

7:00PM

• A new issue of Philosophy in Review is out.
• Kevin Tobia, Wesley Buckwalter and Stephen Stich (Rutgers): Moral Intuitions: Are Philosophers Experts?
• J. David Velleman (NYU): Foundations for Moral Relativism.
• From NDPR, a review of The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher; a review of The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation by Sarah Clark Miller; a review of Moralism: A Study of a Vice by Craig Taylor; and a review of Against Moral Responsibility by Bruce N. Waller.
• From The Utopian, an interview with T. M. Scanlon.
• The new leveller: An interview with Elizabeth Anderson.
• A review of Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays by Barry Stroud.
• Is philosophy literature? Analytic philosophy is reputed to be overly dry and technical, but a host of 20th century works are lyrical, engaging and a delight to read.
• Addicts, mythmakers and philosophers: Alan Brody explains Plato’s/Socrates’ understanding of habitually bad behavior.
• Public forums for the discussion of ideas are flourishing everywhere, from festivals to pubs, but will the popularity of philosophy groups have any lasting impact?

A third critical theory

Aug 2 2012 
11:00AM

• Ali Rizvi (UBD): A Critique of Modern Philosophy. 
• James Mensch (Charles): Violence and Existence: An Examination of Schmitt's Political Philosophy. 
• From Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, a review essay on Jurgen Habermas. 
• You are all proletariats: A review of Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (translated by Rodney Livingstone; Verso 2011). 
• A review of Adorno for Revolutionaries by Ben Watson. 
• A riposte to the Habermases, Rawls and Bidets of the world: A review of Proletarian Nights: Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth Century France by Jacques Ranciere and 1839: The Chartist Insurrection by David Black and Chris Ford. 
• A review of Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises. 
• Rasmus Fleischer on Robert Kurz and the collapse of modernity: A quarter of a century ago, the Nurnberg school of Wertkritik (value-critical theory) emerged as a project to develop a third critical theory, pertinent to the third industrial revolution. 
• Paul Mason and/or Karl Marx: Paul Le Blanc on occupations, insurgencies and human nature.