Dialectic

I was recently in Kuala Lumpur with my 4 year old daughter. We saw a lot of Hindu temples, and my daughter was impressed by all the gods on ...

Apparently we missed the World Philosophy Day yesterday on the 20th of November. This is not too surprising considering Australia held no e...

Unless you have been living under a rock you may have heard of this: Mandatory Internet Filtering. In an effort to (ostensibly at least) ...

With the impending collapse of the entire capitalist system, the revolution must surely be at hand. More likely the media needs fuel to feed...

Richard Wright is with Syd now, performing that great gig in the sky. Wright was the keyboardist for Pink Floyd and father in law of Guy Pra...

The Australian have run a piece about the 1996 Sokal scandal by Simon Blackburn, a professor of philosophy from Cambridge, taken from his bo...

Here is an article by Carlin Romano about Bernard-Henri Levy and his new book newly out in the US Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the ...

The time has finally come for CERN to fire up the old Hadron Collider and find some God particles in a mini big-bang. I for one welcome o...

The Scottish have built a statue of economist and philosopher Adam Smith. Article from The Australian Article from adamsmith.org Discuss!

Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone! Free event at Bangarra Theatre, 14:00 to 15:00 on Saturday 24th Craig Schuftan will talk about Nietzs...

There are plans to dig up the grave of Friedrich Nietzsche in Rocken, Germany to get to his precious precious coal. It turns out that Nietzs...

David Chalmers was an attendance at a Buddhist conference on happiness held in Sydney this week. This is an Article from the Sydney Morning...

The Sydney Writers Festival , on between the 19th and 25th of May, is hosting Simon Critchley as one of its speakers. Critchley, who is a p...

Charles Darwin (along with that other Charles, Mr Sanders Pierce) died on the 19th of April, which just happened to be yesterday. To roughly...

Keeping with posting obituaries several weeks after the event, John Wheeler, the theoretical physicist who coined the terms ‘Black Hole’ and...

A little belated: Gary Gygax, the man who co-invented Dungeons and Dragons, author of the first edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and...

Aware that many of the members are fans of polemics, I would commend AC Grayling’s Against All Gods . I would even commend the work to thos...

The Sixty-Third Philosopher’s Carnival is presently being hosted by a Mr Noah Greenstein . Mr Greenstein’s theme is comedy. Now, if only we...

The Sixty-Second Philosopher’s Carnival is presently being hosted by Meaning More .

The Executive, having had some preliminary discussions about the Club in 2008, is asking for comments and suggestions. Having organised the ...

Professor Harold Tarrant, of the University of Newcastle , has translated the first volume of Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus . The t...