Tag: Public

• May 10, 2013

  Benedict or Cicero? Field philosophy or the monastic?

  Day 1. A philosopher is neither a teller nor an adviser. Day 2. What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance Day 3. ‘Living’ philosophy: Field philosophy Scholars of Aristotle have long been divided over the answer Aristotle gives to the question of how best to live. Much of the Nicomachean Ethics points in…
• December 14, 2011

  Brand naming: Thinking differently

  The inner circle of brand doyens at Lexicon (I almost wrote Lexipro, then almost quipped about Lexi-con) is exploring car names that could become impactful brands in a twenty-first century green economy. In “Famous Names: Does it Matter What a Product is Called?” (The New Yorker, October 3, 2011), the writer John Colapinto listens in:…
• October 18, 2011

  10 word bios

  Individual: So what do you do? Me: I’m a philosopher. I put lives in order. — Institution: So what do you do? Me: I’m a philosopher. I bring lives to order. — Him: So where are you from? Me: The Midwest. Him: And why’d you move? Me: I set out to make life work. — Her:…