Bryan W. Van Norden’s June 25 opinion piece in The New York Times, “The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience,” is useful for one main reason: it is a symptom of the decline of two venerable institutions, academic philosophy (Van Norden’s profession) and print journalism. Van Norden’s basic thesis is that John … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 3—Kant, universities, The Deep(er) State, and philosophy.
“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 48. Kant, universities, The Deep(er) State, and philosophy. In “What is Enlightenment?,” Kant says that I have put the main point of enlightenment, of people’s emergence from their self-incurred immaturity, chiefly in matters of religion because our rulers have no interest in playing guardian over their … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018) Featuring Works By John Altmann, Andrew D. Chapman, Katherine Crabtree, Dennis Earl, Giovanni Frigo, Robert Hanna, Bruno Latour, Michelle Maiese, Otto Paans, Hugh Reginald, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Borderless Philosophy, aka BP, is a new and absolutely unique philosophy journal. BP publishes works of philosophy without any in-principle restrictions whatsoever as to length, philosophical content or topic, presentational format, or language. BP’s only criterion of selection is that the work be of genuine interest to philosophers or any other philosophically-minded person. BP publishes … [continue reading]
“Free Speech Is Wonderful–Unless You Offend Us and Then You Must Face the Consequences.”
1. Introduction Something I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot recently in journal/news media and social media, on blogs, and in everyday conversations, both in philosophical contexts and non-philosophical contexts, is the claim that “free speech is wonderful, it’s the First Amendment, it’s mom-and-apple-pie, I so totally love it–unless you offend us, and then you … [continue reading]