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This month, the New York Times featured numerous philosophers’ opinions on the “experimental philosophy” movement which has garnered increasing attention in the last couple of years. In response, at Thoughts Arguments and Rants, Brian Weatherson tries to discern what precisely makes “experimental philosophy” any different than the many other scientifically aware philosophical approaches that have existed [...]
Archive for August, 2010
A Philosophers’ Blog Carnival!
August 31st, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind 
Tags: Brian Weatherson, David Chalmers, Eric Thomson, Torbjörn Tännsjö 
4 Comments »Reflection And Moral Behavior
August 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In the video below (via Pete Mandik), philosophers Josh Knobe and Eric Schwitzgebel discuss the extent to which thinking about morality can make them behave more morally by measuring whether ethics professors, who presumably think about morality the most often and the most systematically, are any more consistently moral or at least act more consistently [...]
Posted in Ethics, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality Tags: Eric Schwitzgebel, Josh Knobe No Comments »Daily Hilarity: 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes
August 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke These are so hilarious but I feel obligated and embarrassed to admit a good handful of the more melodramatic lines were ones I rather liked when I first saw them. Your Thoughts?
King vs. Beck
August 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Just as Christian fundamentalists quote only very selectively from the Bible what is most useful for their rather peculiar contemporary interpretations of their religion, so does Glenn Beck only focus on narrow slivers of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas despite insisting that he and those in his movement are the true heirs of, and resumption [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Jr., Martin Luther King, Socialism, VorJack No Comments »New Wedding Customs Of The (Probably Near) Future
August 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Chaos Pet glimpses the future: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Comic Strips, Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology, Hilarious Tags: Chaos Pet, Facebook, Wedding Vows 3 Comments »Daily Hilarity: Video Game Health Care Bill
August 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody Tags: Super Mario No Comments »ZJ On “The Ground Zero Mosque”
August 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 5 of the best minutes of discussion on this topic anywhere on the internet: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Islam, Islam, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion Tags: zinnia jones, zj, ZJemptv 1 Comment »Just Another Raving Socialist…
August 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Now, according to the natural order instituted by divine providence, material goods are provided for the satisfaction of human needs. Therefore the division and appropriation of property, which proceeds from human law, must not hinder the satisfaction of man’s necessity from such goods. Equally, whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, [...]
Matt & Trey Talk Skepticism
August 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Hemant Mehta for this video with the South Park geniuses discussing the skeptical themes in South Park: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Satire, Satire, Skepticism, Skepticism, Videos Tags: Isaac Hayes, John Edward, Matt Stone, Penn Jillette, South Park, The Amazing Meeting, Trey Parker 1 Comment »Ken Mehlman, Former Bush Campaign Chief And RNC Chief, Comes Out Of The Closet
August 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke He now wants to become an advocate for gay marriage. He explains: “It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life,” said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. “Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over [...]
Creepiest Interview With A Political Candidate Ever
August 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke File this train wreck under “has to be seen to be believed”: (via The Village Voice) Your Thoughts?
Inside The Medieval Mind: Knowledge
August 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A description of the 6 part video which begins below (click through to watch the whole thing): One of the world’s greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew’s University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. In the first programme, Knowledge, he explores the way medieval man understood the world [...]
Daily Hilarity: On Getting Old
August 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Videos Tags: Aging, Home Instead Senior Care, Mary Maxwell No Comments »What Would Darwin Say To Today’s Creationists
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Eugenie Scott on both the stagnation and the devolution of creationism since the time of Darwin: Your Thoughts?
Evolution To The Rescue In The Gulf!
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nature is amazing: Deep sea microbe populations are evolving in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, helping to digest the oil that continues to contaminate the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study published today (August 24) on the ScienceExpress website. The findings provide tantalizing clues that the ocean is evolving in a way that will [...]
Olbermann Details All The Evidence Of Obama’s “Secret Muslim Faith”
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The depth of the conspiracy is so chilling: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Islam, Islam, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics Tags: George W. Bush, Keith Olbermann, Secret Muslim No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Japanese Language Exercises
August 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Whatever works, I guess: The best comment on YouTube: interestingly enough, this was the entire vocabulary of my ex-wife. And this video takes it in a whole other hilarious direction: As another astute YouTube comment puts it: So it’s proper etiquette to take a Japanese woman to a porn movie on a first date? [...]
Allan Hazlett Leaves Fordham For Edinburgh
August 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Allan Hazlett arrived at Fordham long after I was done with coursework and, curiously, our primary interactions were in interviewing each other. When he visited the campus as a prospective member of the faculty I participated in a lunch designed for him to meet the graduate students so that he could learn about the program [...]
Mike Campbell Plays 14 Year Old Fan’s Home Made Guitar On Stage
August 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke This is a terrific story about the guitarist from my favorite band, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and a remarkable young fan: One night in front of the computer, Griffin was watching footage of a 1985 concert. “And Mike Campbell, the lead guitar player from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, came out playing this really [...]
The Intimacy Of Face Touching
August 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Referencing the scene which begins the clip above from the excellent film, Life as a House, in which Kevin Kline plays a man dying of cancer, Clergy Guy ruminates on his own experiences with touching the faces of the sick and explores the role of touch in intimacy: The scene resonated with me because within the [...]
If You Look Up “God Complex” On Wikipedia
August 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Look whose name you’ll find! It’s been edited out already. (via Sendai Anonymous) Your Thoughts?
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