Category: education
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You wander in philosophy in order to turn homeward
Wolfe was wrong when he said that you never can go home again. He was wrong because philosophy leads you home after your wandering. Only once you get there, you realize that the idea of home has changed, changed blessedly, blessedly changed. I Reading philosophers from all times and climes, I am struck by the…
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The return of the robots!
Beware the tin-tin bots, my friend! The jaws that bite, the hands that snatch! Beware the Jubjub can, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! — Beware, beware because the robots are everywhere. They take our cash, they send us our buys, they give us our tickets, they feed us our food. They file our taxes,…
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Pete Worley of The Philosophy Foundation asks, ‘How many things are there?’
Yesterday, I had a nice chat with Peter Worley who’s Co-founder, with his wife Emma, of The Philosophy Foundation. According to their website, their aim is to “bring philosophy to schools and the wider community.” Over the past 10 years, they’ve been training philosophers and teachers in leading schoolchildren in the art of philosophical inquiry.…
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Gladwell’s 10,000 rule for success and Aristotle’s reply
So a wise guy goes up to Malcolm Gladwell and asks him, “Hey, bub, can you tell me how you get to Carnegie Hall?” Gladwell, seeing that the guy’s probably in his early 60s, doesn’t miss a beat: “Of course. From here, you just take the N/Q/R to 57th St. and then walk a block…
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On murmuring, alienation, and institutional failures
The philosopher David E. Cooper’s massive doorstop, World Religions: A Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), does have a leitmotiv. It is the “problem of ‘alienation’ or ‘estrangement.’” By these terms, they [Hegel and Marx] meant the sense which many human beings–all of them, perhaps, at times–have of being ‘strangers’, of not being ‘at home’, in…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 