Professor Kline visited Rockford College on Tuesday to give a talk on four major thinkers — Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith — who in large part established the intellectual framework for our modern business world. Kline is a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Here is my seven-minute follow-up interview with Kline […]
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Prompted by Eduardo Marty’s link to this discussion of postmodernism and libertarianism, here are updated links to my 1999 cyberseminar on The Continental Origins of Postmodernism, conducted while I was on sabbatical and Scholar-in-Residence at the Atlas Society. Abstract for the course: For this 1999 online seminar “The Continental Origins of Postmodernism,” TAS Director of
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The Philosophy and Film Series presents Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, starring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, and Anjelica Houston. My colleagues Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm will host a screening of the film and a discussion of its philosophical themes. Date and Time: November 8, screening at 6 p.m. and discussion
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Some initial evidence for your consideration: paintings from Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, and de Kooning. At a TRAC conference in Ventura, I heard an intriguing talk by Kay Kane, professor of drawing at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Kane’s talk was based partly on (and partly diverged from) Wendy Steiner’s Venus in Exile (University
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The Atlas Society has a new CEO this year, Aaron Day. This press release announces Day’s appointment and background. The release also lists the names of those of us on the newly-constituted Board of Advisors: Ed Crane President, Cato Institute Steve Davis Director of Advanced Projects, SpaceX R. Paul Drake Professor of Physics, University of
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The Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is presenting a day-long conference on the moral and legal status of gun ownership today. GUNS IN AMERICA: Conflicting Points of View Gun ownership by private citizens is one of the most hotly debated issues in America today. What
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The Philosophy and Film Series presents the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. My colleagues Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm will host a screening of the film and a discussion of its philosophical themes. Date: October 11 Place: Severson Auditorium, Scarborough Hall, Rockford College Time: Screening at
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Following up on a series of recent posts on Marxism and its fellow travelers (Engels, Mao, Guzmán, Hobsbawm), a question about whether Marxism’s brutal history is a built-in consequence of its principles or an accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory. So a series of quotations from some principal figures: Marx in 1848: “there is only one
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I’ll be speaking on Entrepreneurial Ethics this coming Wednesday evening at Wheeling Jesuit University. Some of my remarks will be based on my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” and the rest will connect those themes to other works in progress. The talk is part of part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. Thanks to
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My colleague Shawn Klein has organized a trip for Rockford College students to see Atlas Shrugged, Part II on Friday, October 12 at 5:05 pm. Interested students can see the movie for free, courtesy of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. (Only the tickets are free — not concessions or transportation.) Check out the trailer.
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