Rethinking the 'Just War,' Part 1 The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Can war be justified? Is there such a thing as morally proper conduct in war? With Veterans’ Day upon us and, with the Obama administration preparing to face another four years of geopolitical choices in unstable regions, The Stone is featuring recent work by Jeff McMahan, a philosopher and professor at Rutgers University, on “just war theory” — a set of ethical principles pertaining to violent conflict, whose origins can be traced back to Augustine, that still influence the politics and morality of war today. The work will be published in two parts on consecutive days — the first dealing with the background and history of the traditional just war theory, and second consisting of the author’s critique of that theory. — The Editors There is very little in the realm of morality that nearly everyone agrees on. The Evolution of the Theory Leif Parsons The Theory’s Importance
philosophy bites A New Birth of Reason - Susan Jacoby Cover Story - Winter 2013 Print Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state Robert Ingersoll (Library of Congress/Brady-Handy Photograph Collection) By Susan Jacoby December 7, 2012 Why do some public figures who were famous in their own time become part of a nation’s historical memory, while others fade away or are confined to what is called “niche fame” on the Internet? Ingersoll emerged as the leading figure in what historians of American secularism consider the golden age of freethought—an era when immigration, industrialization, and science, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection, were challenging both religious orthodoxy and the supposedly simpler values of the nation’s rural Anglo-Saxon past. They knew that to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. In his lecture “The Gods,” Ingersoll proclaimed, The Agnostic is an Atheist.
Teaching philosophy lessons, examples, & philosophy activities Benjamin Franklin Quote Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Plutarch Quote The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. These philosophy plays, lessons & philosophy activities were written by Rev Dr Wally Shaw, a teacher and philosopher, as a study aid for those students (philosophy for children, and those studying an introduction to philosophy) wanting to learn about philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and Socrates. We have had great feedback on these philosophy plays as an aid to learn philosophy either by yourself or as part of a study group. These philosophy plays are suitable for use in university philosophy, college & high school philosophy or as a school class. Why should those philosophy teachers (High School teachers, College and University Philosophy lecturers and philosophy professors) and others in university philosophy, college philosophy, high school philosophy want to use these docudrama scripts? 1. The statement can:
Platform Adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, NV Download as a PDF As adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others. We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized. Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles. These specific policies are not our goal, however. We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.
Reading List - Diversifying Syllabi June 6: Disability, etc.Shelley Tremain, “On the government of disability”Elizabeth Barnes, “Disability, Minority, and Difference”Deaf Bioethics: A Case Study (at Adams, Chapter 1, The Sexual Politics of MeatJune 20: Solidarity IRachel McKinnon, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice”Rachel McKinnon, “Stereotype Threat and Attributional Ambiguity for Trans Women”Linda Alcoff, “The Problem of Speaking for Others”July 5: Queer philosophyC. Libertarianism First published Thu Sep 5, 2002; substantive revision Tue Jul 20, 2010 Libertarianism, in the strict sense, is the moral view that agents initially fully own themselves and have certain moral powers to acquire property rights in external things. In a looser sense, libertarianism is any view that approximates the strict view. This entry will focus on libertarianism in the strict sense. For excellent discussion of the liberty tradition more generally (including classical liberalism), see Gaus and Mack (2004) and Barnett (2004). Libertarianism is sometimes identified with the principle that each agent has a right to maximum equal empirical negative liberty, where empirical negative liberty is the absence of forcible interference from other agents when one attempts to do things. Libertarianism can be understood as a basic moral principle or as a derivative one. Libertarianism is often thought of as “right-wing” doctrine. 1. 2. Libertarianism is committed to full self-ownership. 3.
Digital Philosophy – Melissa Jacquart • Digital Research • Content Visualization • • Enhanced Class Resources • Collaborative Work • • Social Media • Mobile Devices • Blogs • The Digital Humanities is a quickly growing area of research in the academy. The Digital Humanities refers to the intersection of various forms of computation and technology, and the disciplines of humanities. It includes a wide range of tools, from the simple use of word processors and presentation tools (like Microsoft Word/PowerPoint, Apple’s Pages/Keynote, or OpenOffice), to Data Mining, and even includes Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). However, it is important that we don’t think of the digital humanities simply as tools that we use to learn. As instructors, there are many ways in which we can use a variety digital tools in the philosophy classroom to lead to deeper learning and engagement with course material. Digital Research Digital Research Databases. University Library Websites. Philosophy-Specific Research Tools. Back to Top Infographics.
Online videos of philosophical lectures – A brood comb |Updated on May.03rd 2008| Bored by movies, and don’t feel like reading a book? You can watch philosophical and other interesting videos on web. Alternatively you may want to check the newest developments of my first iPhone game – Henophobia At Young Philosophers: Also… Debbie in the comments pointed to this course on Death by Shelly KaganAnd a link to a Gresham College Lectures and Events, which Tjh recommended in the comments long time ago, but I never got to pick out the philosophically interesting ones. Some of those are philosophically interesting: Or check the whole collection for more. TED talks site hosts bunch of videos related to philosophy of mind, featuring Dennet, Pinker, Ramachandran, Kurzweil and others. You can check the lecture “Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective” by Thomas Metzinger (1hr) presented at UC Berkeley.If you are interested in that video, check PSYCHE symposia on Thomas Metzinger’s book Being No One. Here. Like this:
Introduction to Philosophy A Conversation with Michael Ayers on Locke and BerkeleyPart One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five. Dan Dennett on Charles DarwinPart One , Two , Three , Four , Five , Six , Seven.