When philosophers go bad...

Even philosophers can get things wrong, with hilarious consequences. See the list at www.philosophicalmisadventures.com

Nietzsche’s Ears
Friedrich Nietzsche had some interesting ideas about The Origin of the Ears:

Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life of the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been; in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight …

Thursday Seminar Series

This Thursday, 29th, Prof. David Evans Talks about 'Teaching Philosophy Historically' in 16 University Square, G01, at 4pm

Slavoj Zizek NY Times OpEd piece

Slavoj writes in the light of the apparent confessions of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

PG philosophy conference

2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
11TH ANNUAL BRITISH POSTGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE (JULY
13TH-15TH 2007)


The School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia calls for papers
for the 11th Annual British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (formerly
the National Postgraduate Analytic Philosophy Association) Conference at
UEA in Norwich from Friday 13 July to Sunday 15 July 2007. The Conference
is currently scheduled to showcase themes and techniques current in the
discourse of (particularly analytic) philosophy.

The conference invites paper submissions from graduate students in all
areas of philosophy.

Papers should be around 2,000 words and serve as the basis for an oral
presentation of no more than 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of question
time. Author's name, address, school, and contact information (preferably
email address) must be provided on a separate coversheet. Each submission
should include an abstract suitable for printing on a programme.

Submissions may be made electronically (preferred) to M.Lavery@uea.ac.uk
or by post to:
BPPA Conference Submissions
c/o M. Lavery
School of Philosophy
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ

The deadline for submissions is 20 April 2007. Selected presenters will be
notified as soon as possible thereafter so that accommodation can be
arranged through the University’s Conference Center.

Please feel free to contact the conference organizers via email at
M.Lavery@uea.ac.uk.

This conference is made possible through the generous support of the
Analysis Trust, the Aristotelian Society, and the Mind Association as well
as the UEA School of Philosophy.

Calling all inhabitants of Earth (and its twins)!

A definite must this one:

http://www.ucd.ie/news/mar07/030507_Putnam_Award.htm

You gotta love those folks at UCD for putting that up. Legends.

Society Meeting 7th March

Cancelled!

A mere hiatus in pondering.

See below for Thursday seminar times and topics.

15th March

John Skorupski's talks about "Consequentialist Arrogance" on Thursday, March 15 at
4 pm in 16 University Square, room G01.

Perceptual error?

See what you know you aren't seeing at:

http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.php