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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Thursday, May 04, 2006
First On-Line Philosophy Conference – Papers
The first set of papers for the much announced On-Line Philosophy Conference:
- Mary Coleman, ‘Holistic Directions of Fit and Smith’s Teleological Argument’
- Julia Driver, ‘Luck’
- Noa Latham, Fundamental Laws’
- Alfred Mele, ‘Practical Mistakes and Intentional Actions’
- Stephen Stich and Daniel Kelley, ‘Two Theories about the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality’
- Jessica Wilson, ‘Non-reductive Physicalism and Degrees of Freedom’
- Outstanding Undergraduate Paper: Andrew Bailey, ‘Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism’
The papers and commentaries are available here, while comments can be made at the Conference blog.
- Mary Coleman, ‘Holistic Directions of Fit and Smith’s Teleological Argument’
- Julia Driver, ‘Luck’
- Noa Latham, Fundamental Laws’
- Alfred Mele, ‘Practical Mistakes and Intentional Actions’
- Stephen Stich and Daniel Kelley, ‘Two Theories about the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality’
- Jessica Wilson, ‘Non-reductive Physicalism and Degrees of Freedom’
- Outstanding Undergraduate Paper: Andrew Bailey, ‘Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism’
The papers and commentaries are available here, while comments can be made at the Conference blog.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Foucault, footy and philosophy
Marc Abrahams
Tuesday May 2, 2006
The Guardian
Of all the football leagues for all the players in the world, the Australian Football League is the first to sponsor research that overtly applies the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Australian football is not soccer, nor is it American football. It is, fans and players like to point out, based on a different philosophy from anything else that answers to the name "football". Australian behaviourists Peter Kelly and Christopher Hickey elucidate one aspect of the game's philosophy in a study they call: Foucault Goes to the Footy: Professionalism, Performance, Prudentialism and Playstations in the Life of AFL Footballers.
Read the whole article here
Tuesday May 2, 2006
The Guardian
Of all the football leagues for all the players in the world, the Australian Football League is the first to sponsor research that overtly applies the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Australian football is not soccer, nor is it American football. It is, fans and players like to point out, based on a different philosophy from anything else that answers to the name "football". Australian behaviourists Peter Kelly and Christopher Hickey elucidate one aspect of the game's philosophy in a study they call: Foucault Goes to the Footy: Professionalism, Performance, Prudentialism and Playstations in the Life of AFL Footballers.
Read the whole article here
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