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Goodbye, Rorty
Richard Rorty, the most important contemporary exponent of American pragmatism, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday.
If you're curious, here are some articles about him:
"How Richard Rorty Found Religion", a biographical article in First Things
An interview with Rorty in The Believer
A fond discussion of Rorty on Crooked Timber
Wikipedia Entry
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An article about my uncle!
The Detroit Jewish News ran a cover story about my uncle Amnon's history class! ( Reprinted here ) -
Reading about Schlegel!
Hegel with uncharacteristic lack of charity cites Schlegel's views as the main instance of a category he calls "Evil".
Raymond Geuss, The Sources of Normativity
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Silver
One thing I learned from the Swarthmore psychology department is that winners of bronze medals are happier than winners of silver. (That was the most memorable of Schwartz's Thinking, Judgment and Decision-Making lectures last fall. Lisa and I were primed for innuendo from the discussion of "peak-end theory," so by the time this topic came up we ( Read more... ) -
Goals
I like this "101 in 1001" meme that's going around, but I'm not ready to make goals for the whole 1001 days (from now to February 2010) yet. For one thing, I want to spend the '08-'09 academic year in Israel and be in grad school in the fall of '09, but those are Very Big Plans and my expectations about them are going to change ( Read more... ) -
All manner of news!
- I've decided to keep a sort of reading log of my summer research. I'm reading philosophical work about practical reason and normativity. I'd like to post my thoughts on livejournal (on a daily or maybe weekly basis), but I don't want to flood anyone's friends-list with boring philosophy rants, so I'm going to filter it. Comment with the word ( Read more... )
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Moving out, moving in...
As it turns out, the wine had gone bad but the movie was brilliant. Afterwards, I made soup from a can in Roberts' kitchen for the last time. (I remember the first time: spring break last year, vegetarian vegetable in the same cracked silver pot). ( ... ) -
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I just turned in my last paper of the semester. On the way to Papazian, I called my mother. The conversation went something like this:
I'm done!
Congratulations! But what about your thesis?
I'll work on that later. Now I'm just gonna turn my paper in and relax.
Relax? How long are you planning to relax??
Mom, I haven't even turned in my paper yet!
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