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What is philosophy?

A review of Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy by Paisley Livingston. Saving philosophy from the suits: The long march of market mechanisms through Britain's cultural institutions has accelerated — is there a business/state case for philosophy and humanities? Why Middlesex Matters: John Protevi considers why so many American academics have joined the fight to save a noted philosophy program at a British university. Get em while they’re young: 20 years on from the introduction of philosophy in British primary schools, Brooke Lewis looks at how the subject is faring. The Examined Life, Age 8: An article on philosophical reasoning taught in the second grade. What is philosophy? It's not about beards and togas. If Aristotle ran the Huffington Post: An article on Tom Morris and a series of “interviews” with philosophers (like Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and Allen Thompson, Dave Baggett and Shannon Eric Kincaid). From The New York Times's new philosophy blog The Stone, Simon Critchley on what is a philosopher. From McSweeney's, Mike Sacks on famous philosophers and how they were first discovered. From PopMatters, a review of Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (And So Can You!); and a review of Zombies, Vampires and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead. From John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Aristotle's "mean" philosophy to the principle of charity, here are the greatest principles of philosophy. From The Philosophers' Magazine, the editorial team of the journal Philosophy of Management make the case for their emerging field; what can the Stoics do for us? Antonia Macaro investigates the alleged usefulness of Stoic philosophy for life today, and Nancy Sherman on modern soldiers and ancient wisdom; and here are one two three reflections on the philosophy of day to day life.