The following was posted by byzantinespy:
While I was there we all watched President Bush conduct his much anticipated televised news conference. My first thought was that the press was asking him especially hostile questions. "Don't you think you should apologize?" and "Can't you think of any mistakes you have ever made?" seemed almost catty. But I was also ( Read more... )

So I had an excellent weekend at home. Thursday was an Ed Casey marathon running from about 2:30 in the afternoon until 1am. The best was rering to Galen's house after he evening talk and just hanging around with a bunch of my friends and Ed. He got excited when Galen mentioned my paper on the role of the affect in Merleau-Ponty's Eye and Mind, ( Read more... )

Heidegger defines the central question of philosophy in at least two different ways, and, as in all things Heidegger, these two senses of the question are intimately related. The first iteration of the question is that of the investigation of Being and Time: the question of the meaning of being. In a way, Heidegger supplies us with an answer to ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off for the weekend to listen to a series of Ed Casey lectures on public memory and place. Anyone who knows me philosophically can see how awesome this is for me. I'm a huge fan of Casey's work, and feel that one of the neglected areas of philosophical research are certain mental powers we have such as feeling, imagination (not as a ( Read more... )

Well, it turns out I made a realy good decision coming to Memphis instead of Villanova. Len announced today that he turned down the offer there and consequently will be staying here. Caputo also announced that he will be leaving Villanova to go to Syracuse's Religion department. That leave two BIG vacancies at their house, and only holes on the ( Read more... )

I'm really glad that I'm in a pluralist department right now because I feel as if I'm catching up on the analytic lingo enough to be an unstoppable philosophical juggernaught!!!!!

I played tennis today with my friend James, it was exciting to use my body for something beside embodying my mind. A good time was had by all, but I need to get myself ( Read more... )

The following appeared in today's New York Times ( Read more... )

Is anyone thinking of taking a spurrious trip to Germany in, say, the next week or so? If so, I would appreciate you picking up V.65 of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe: Beitrage zur philosophie (vom ereignis) for me. It's going to cost me about 70 Euros to get it here in America, and, frankly, I just can't see doing that. (oh, and not to be TOO big ( Read more... )

In a rare Monday update: My weekend sucked: I read over 150 pages for that stupid journal I help edit and ended up neglecting my real studies. Other than that, I did nothing ( Read more... )

* Well, I returned from spring break to realize that I'm a little overwhelmed with work. The extra class is really starting to take its toll on me. The extra 40 pages of Kant to read each week is just destroying any type of scedule I may have had. Arg.

** Have discovered why philosophy had been turning my stomach as of late: I don't give a rats ( Read more... )