January 9th marked Simone de Beauvoir’s 100th birthday.
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Archive for the ‘Continental Philosophy’ Category
Thinking in the Air…
Posted in Continental Philosophy, Epistemology, General Interest, News & Notes on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Interested in Doing Ph.D. Work in Continental Philosophy?
Posted in Continental Philosophy, Grad School on August 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Suggestions for which departments might be best suited to your interests are available here.
Nietzsche: A Few Summer Readings
Posted in Continental Philosophy on July 10, 2007 | No Comments »
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
Rescuing ‘Der Wille zur Macht’ from Reductionism
Posted in Continental Philosophy on June 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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!
‘Der wille zur Macht’ and Reductionism
Posted in Continental Philosophy on May 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Nietzsche’s Mythological Story
Posted in Continental Philosophy on April 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
An Interview with Richard Shusterman
Posted in Aesthetics, Asian Philosophy, Conferences, Continental Philosophy, Interviews, News & Notes, Philosophy of Mind on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
The Peculiar Phenomenology of Hallucination
Posted in Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind on March 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
On Suicide
Posted in Continental Philosophy on February 28, 2007 | 9 Comments »
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 [...]
“Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Itinerary”
Posted in Continental Philosophy, News & Notes, Phenomenology on February 5, 2007 | No Comments »
… a colloquium featuring Stephen Watson (Notre Dame) at UCF today — Monday, February 5th. Information is available here.
- Rico Vitz
