November 29th, 2006 § 0
Jay Rosenberg, “Philosophy: What is to be done?—Bleak prospects“, in Topoi, Volume 25, Numbers 1-2, September 2006, pp. 97-99.
Keywords: philosophy, pedagogy, mass-media, barbarism, superstition, muck, ignorance, stupidity, resignation, frustration, rage, hamsters.
November 22nd, 2006 § 1
There have been a number of attempts in recent decades to show that mathematical entities are dispensable. The chief difficulty for these proposals lies in the vast number of mathematical entities to be dispensed with.
Zoltán Gendler Szabó, “Review of A Subject with no Object“, in The Philosophical Review, Vol. 108, No. 1, January 1999, p. 107.
November 9th, 2006 § 0
A Haiku Composed of Three Quotations from the New York Times on the Occasion of The Democratic Party Winning Both Houses in the United States of America Midterm Elections.
Is it too early?
Rather like a “real” person,
The salesroom burst into applause.
November 8th, 2006 § 1
From a Times article about Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes, the 900-page debut novel which just won the Prix Goncourt–
Gallimard, which received the manuscript under a French pseudonym and planned to publish only 12,000 copies, has used paper reserved for the new Harry Potter book to print thousands more.
(Time to write the first draft: 112 days).