Professors Shawn Klein and Michael Perry — my colleagues in Philosophy and English Literature — are co-hosting the 1st Annual Rockford College Sports Studies Symposium: An interdisciplinary conference on the study of Sport, to be held at Rockford College on April 28, 2012 from 10 am to 2 pm. Panel #1 Chairperson: Shawn E. Klein […]
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I spoke on Educating for Entrepreneurship at the Fórum da Libertade in Porto Alegre, Brazil this week. Over 4,500 people attended the two-day conference with many high profile Brazilian business, cultural, and political leaders. My talk was one of two in a panel on the theme of Education: Obey, Think, or Create? The panel was
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In this extended interview, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl responds to a series of questions about his life and work. Den Uyl is the author of many works. His latest book, co-authored with Douglas Rasmussen, is Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics. Why did you become a philosopher? [0:19] Where did you get
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Entrepreneurial Research Science The latest issue of Kaizen features my interview with physicist R. Paul Drake. I met with Dr. Drake in Michigan to discuss the realities of professional science — multi-tasking, grant-writing, travel, and learning from failure — the adequacies and inadequacies of American science education, and the likely future of America’s pre-eminent position
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On April 17, Professor Tara Smith will be speaking at Rockford College on themes related to her Money Can Buy Happiness. Professor Smith received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books in moral and political philosophy,
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In my Philosophy of Art course, we’ve been reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy for the last two weeks, and we can add him to the list posted here of intellectuals across the ages bemoaning the poverty of their own time’s culture. Nietzsche on mid-19th century Germany: “What else, in the desolate waste of
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The Bases Foundation has announced its Fourth International Conference, to be held in August in Rosario, Argentina, on the theme of “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century”. The conference has an impressive lineup of speakers, including Lawrence White of George Mason University, Christopher Lingle of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Karol Boudreaux of the
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My original post on Toohey’s five strategies of altruism has been published in a print version designed by Christopher Vaughan, with graphics and scary pull quotes. Here is the PDF version. The post’s opening: “The ethics of altruism holds that others are standard of value. One is good to the extent one puts the interests
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