[This is the Bibliography from Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Bibliography Abrams, M. H. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Fifth edition, Volume II. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986. Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth, and Logic [1936]. Dover, 1946. Ayer, A. J., editor. Logical Positivism. Free […]
Given Heidegger’s towering presence in the landscape of 20th-century philosophy and “deep ecology” environmentalism, How Green Were the Nazis? is an important book.
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Steve Jobs on integrity: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
* His writings have been translated into eighteen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, German, Korean, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, French, Hebrew, Estonian, Urdu, Turkish, and Arabic.* He has published in academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street
Links to my syllabi, readings, PowerPoints, video lectures, and other supporting materials. Jump to: Biomedical Ethics (PHIL 256) * Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325) * Philosophy of Science (PHIL 330) Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 103) * Modern Intellectual History (HIST 103) * Contemporary European Philosophy (PHIL 313) * Philosophy of Art (PHIL 349) *
5/31 We individualists have our work cut out for us. David Boaz notes the TomPalmer.com.) And John Stossel reports: Tax Foundation notes that between 1977 and 2004 the 29 largest energy companies in the US earned $630 billion in profits. A nice big number. During the same period, however, the US federal government collected $2.1
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12/19 Merry Christmas!! There, I’ve said it. Lester Hunt wonders about The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time. (Via classic advice on how to survive the holiday party season.) 12/18 Fruits of the Enlightenment: a fascinating New Yorker piece on from the UK to Philippines for a kidney transplant. A related story on
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9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I
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8/30 A heartfelt missive from an exasperated American farmer: just how starving those starving college students are—though he also notes wryly who is paying for the party at the nation’s top party campuses. 8/28 Morgan Meis asks what art is in a 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. (Via four galaxies colliding. The
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6/30 Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal comments wryly on the Supreme Court’s latest free speech decision: artistic manifesto, based on a presentation he gave at Rockford College, Illinois. 6/27 In Canada’s National Post, a reflection on the phenomenal Arts and Letters Daily, which the state of Montessori education. And here is Alexandra York
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