God, Time, Heidegger, and Personal Identity

Congratulations to Andrew Brenner and Ace Comparato whose projects were accepted for presentation at UNF’s annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Here are the abstracts of their projects:
“Special Relativity and Divine Eternality: The Contemporary Debate”
Andrew Brenner

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Conference Papers

Congratulations to the students whose papers have been accepted for presentation at the 12th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference at UNF on February 7th:
“How to Motivate the Maxim that ‘Ought Implies Can’ to Defend the Principle of Alternate Possibilities”
Sean Armil (University of Florida)
“On the Limitations of Formal Methods”
Wataru Asanuma (Florida State University)
“A Defense of [...]

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Simone de Beauvoir in Philosophy Now

The current issue of Philosophy Now marks the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir with several informative articles about her work.

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Happy Belated Birthday: Simone de Beauvoir

January 9th marked Simone de Beauvoir’s 100th birthday.
(HT: SWIP-List)

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Philosophers’ Carnival #53

Class is officially in session for the 53rd Philosophers‘ Carnival!
Since we at the Florida Student Philosophy Blog have recently returned to class, we thought you should too. We would like to thank all those who submitted, and we hope that you find the current selection as engaging as we did. Courses (or posts if you [...]

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Philosophy Soup, the Second Helping

With the Fall semester fully in swing there are great articles and discussions abound. Here are some for your consideration:
In his most recent post, Efficiency and Value, Richard from Philosophy, Etc. wonders whether supporting high-efficiency superstores provides more value than less efficient craft oriented systems.
Over at Brains, the most recent post is a [...]

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Thinking in the Air…

With the Fall Semester approaching quickly the blogsphere has been buzzing. Some interesting discussions to get your brain back in shape:
The multi-post discussion on Naturalizing Epistemology at The Space of Reasons is quite interesting (link to main page, the discussion goes back a few posts).
And Movement of Existence’s most recent post is Arguments for [...]

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Interested in Doing Ph.D. Work in Continental Philosophy?

Suggestions for which departments might be best suited to your interests are available here.

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Nietzsche: A Few Summer Readings

If you missed Ian’s three-part discussion of Nietzsche, I suggest you check it out:

Nietzsche’s Mythological Story
‘Der wille zur Macht’ and Reductionism
Rescuing ‘Der Wille zur Macht’ from Reductionism

- Rico Vitz

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Rescuing ‘Der Wille zur Macht’ from Reductionism

This post concludes my discussion on Nietzsche’s ‘Will to Power’ in light of its possible reductionist appearance. What I have said in the last posts still holds for this one, so no need to repeat myself!

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‘Der wille zur Macht’ and Reductionism

For this 2nd part of my three part discussion on Nietzsche’s ‘will to power’ (WTP), I wish to investigate the claim that Nietzsche is a reductionist in concern to humans being driven solely by the WTP like machines. As with my last entry on Neitzsche, this essay comes from my senior thesis and has be [...]

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Nietzsche’s Mythological Story

Below is a part of my senior thesis I recently wrote for my degree in Philosophy at Stetson University. In this part, I attempted to show that Nietzsche’s ‘will to power’ is a mythological doctrine and not a metaphysical or empirical theory. Since this is a blog, I’ve cut down on my work so that [...]

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An Interview with Richard Shusterman

Our good fortune continues. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University) to our blog for a brief interview related to the opening of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture and its inaugural conference, which will take place this week.
FSPB: Richard, thank you for joining us. Congratulations to [...]

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The Peculiar Phenomenology of Hallucination

It seems to me that when hallucination is discussed in Phenomenology, it is generally in the context of perception. Hallucination might be considered a type of perception, but this is not very illuminating for a phenomenon that seems to be so apart from what we consider normal perception. In the phenomenological context of [...]

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On Suicide

In “Star Wars: Episode III,” when Anakin Skywalker asked Chancellor Palpatine on the darker aspects of the Force, Palpatine responded that there are some things that are considered “unnatural” in discourse. For me, one of those “unnatural” subjects that is seldom addressed in open dialog is that of suicide. Here I wish to present a [...]

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“Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Itinerary”

… a colloquium featuring Stephen Watson (Notre Dame) at UCF today — Monday, February 5th. Information is available here.
- Rico Vitz

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