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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
Today’s episode is about Wittgenstein. Our guest will be Juliet Floyd.
Many regard Wittgenstein as perhaps the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. I don’t share that view. But there’s no denying that, for a man who published only one book during his lifetime — a book […]
Poetry, Philosophy, Truth
Thursday, January 1st, 1970Howdy folks; Troy Jollimore here. Ken and John were kind enough to invite me to be their guest for the “Love, Poetry, Philosophy” show they taped at Powell’s City of Books in June. And now that the show is being broadcast, they were kind enough to invite me to blog for the show as well. […]
Why we Charge for Downloads
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 posted by Ken Taylor
A lot of our listeners are unhappy that our new download service is not a free service, but is instead a subscription based service. Some have written that’s it’s anti-democratic of us to charge, that’s it’s contrary to the the mission of Stanford University, that we’re just being capitalist […]
Suscribe to the Phiosophy Talk Download Service!!
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 We are very pleased to announce that Philosophy Talk has launched a subsciption-based download service. For more details and to sign up now go to our webpage
There you can subscribe to Philosophy Talk downloads for automatic, weekly delivery. By subscribing to our download service, every future […]
Does Postmodernism Mean Moral Relativism?
Thursday, January 1st, 1970Original post by Philosophy Talk
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Am I a Postmodernist
Thursday, January 1st, 1970Am I a Postmodernist?
John Perry
The term “postmodern’’ came into use as a description of certain
trends in architecture, art, and literature in the 1970’s, although the
trends it describes reach back earlier in the twentieth century, to
Joyce and Finnegan’s Wake in the case of literature, and to the 1950’s
at least in the case of architecture. But what […]
Playful Intentions and the Problem of the Hypno-Flirt
Thursday, January 1st, 1970Hi all - and thanks Ken and John for the invitation to be on the show today and to write for this blog.
I liked Ken’s Gricean point about the flirter requiring the intention that his/her intention be recognized by the flirtee, and I just wanted to follow up on that a bit. One case I […]
Flirting as a two-step dance
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 posted by Ken Taylor
Ah the glories of summer. Though lots has been happening behind the scenes at Philosophy Talk — much of which you will hear about very soon — not a lot has been happening on this blog of late. But now that our summer more or less […]
Where Does Morality Come From? - PS
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 Sorry folks, I meant to add that the previous post was by me, Alex Miller. Cheers!
Original post by Alex Miller
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Where Does Morality Come From?
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 WHERE DOES MORALITY COME FROM?
During the program on Sunday July 1st I drew a distinction between two ways in which this question might be taken. First, we could take it as a question about the *causal origin* of morality: how does it originate? (Compare: where did Stonehenge come from? This would be answered by […]