online archive
6:00PM
NOV 12 2007
Philosophy roundup
Nythamar de Oliveira (PUCRS): Rawls’s normative conception of the person: A Kantian reinterpretation. A review of Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by John Rawls. Robert Nozick and the immaculate conception of the state: An excerpt from Murray Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty. A review of Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics by Elizabeth Campbell Corey. From Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Alan Gross (Minnesota): Habermas, Systematically Distorted Communication, and the Public Sphere. "And to define America, her athletic democracy": Jurgen Habermas on the philosopher and the language shaper, in memory of Richard Rorty. "I’m bringing more people to philosophy": Simon Blackburn has strong views on politics and religion. One of most relevant thinkers you’ve never heard of: A review of The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions by Christian Wiese. A challenge for philosophy: Penn's Anita Allen is at the top of her field, but she has serious concerns about its lack of openness and diversity.
