Archive for September, 2008
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
In my "other blog":http://blog.matthewsmith.id.au/2008/09/18/automatic-for-the-people/ I noted that I have developed an untimely obsession with anything that isn't study related but I think I can use evil for good and apply philosophy to my interests in other things, namely the new season on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Last week's ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Some thinking music while I write some philosophy assessment.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
This week's "Philosopher's Zone":http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2008/2359132.htm was a bit different: they featured a recording from the Melbourne Writers Festival of Jeanette Kennett discussing the topic of Love in Philosophy. Her opening anecdote was quite funny and the whole talk is worth your time:
bq. ...I discovered [the following] a few months ago ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Some rather shallow notes on our set philosophy reading from week 6: Gatens, Moira. "Sexual Difference or Sexual Equality".
Gender has been ignored in philosophy until very recently. Gatens discusses how some influential philosophy can be reapplied with gender in mind to show that women's femininity is socially constructed.
In philosophy ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
If you thought TV evangelists were scary, you aint seen nothin'. This week's Religion Report "Elite Fundamentism - The Fellowship's gospel of Capitalist Power":http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2008/2353921.htm is an interview with Jeff Sharlet the author of a book that looks at a fundamentalist group that has huge influence in American politics and industry ...
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