Another fun collection of philosophy links from Bookforum's
Omnivore column.
May 25 2012
- The inaugural issue of the Women Philosophers' Journal is out.
- From Talking Philosophy, what does a philosopher look like? Here is Cynthia Freeland’s essay on Steve Pyke’s collection of photographs, Philosophers.
- Will Crouch on how to be a high impact philosopher.
- Alistair MacFarlane reveals paradoxes in the long life of Bertrand Russell.
- From Full Stop, an interview with Robert Paul Wolff; and an interview with Joshua Knobe, one of the founders of something called Experimental Philosophy, or XPhi (and more).
- From 3:AM magazine’s series on philosophers, interviews with Patricia Churchland; Katerina Deligiorgi; Kit Fine; Alan Gilbert; Pete Mandik; Eric Olson; Graham Priest; Mark Rowlands; and Kieran Setiya.
- The Greatest Fool That Ever Lived: James V. Schall reflects on the nature of philosophy, Stoicism, and the Incarnational view of life.
- Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher: He was one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century, but few people consider him a thinker — that would be a mistake (and part 2 and part 3).
- A look at what philosophers do, in case you were wondering.
- Are the Stooges funny? A philosopher says “Soitanly!”
