Epideixis

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194014642024-03-09T09:04:32.350+11:00EpideixisMHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-8227166485508381512007-08-02T09:04:00.000+10:002007-08-02T09:12:50.324+10:00Hiatus

Clearly there has not been a substantive contribution to Epideixis for a while. So with the project (that never came to be) stalled for the present, the Contributors would like to redirect our readers to Dialectic, our more active forum.We have the intention of returning here when, eventually, we decide upon and find the time for, some more substantive discussion. As the title states, this is

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1171152620633534402007-02-11T11:08:00.000+11:002007-02-11T11:10:20.633+11:00On Ideas

'Ideas are bullet-proof' - V For Vendetta.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1171152419055007762007-02-11T11:01:00.000+11:002007-02-11T11:06:59.070+11:00Arendt on Acts

'It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.' - Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1994), 273.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1160490873986585502006-10-11T00:34:00.000+10:002006-10-11T00:34:38.896+10:00A Legal Question

‘The online purchase of a New Zealand-made drug touted as the "strongest energy pill legally available in the world" could land NSW residents in jail, police have warned. The benzylpiperazine-based products are legal in New Zealand and marketed online under names such as "Dark Angel", "Grin", "Red Hearts", "Majik", "Kandi", "Frenzy", "Altitude" and "Humma", police said.’ Quoted

Captain Kickarsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09761360601256251604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1159920313284828962006-10-04T09:54:00.000+10:002006-10-04T10:05:13.316+10:00Three Articles

Firstly, an interview from Cogito with philosopher John Haugeland on human intelligence and responsibility. It includes an interesting discussion of AI (so Sam should read it).Secondly, a Foucauldian analysis of EU telephone and internet surveillance regulations, from Le Monde diplomatique. Thirdly, a discussion of the role of religion in social cohesion.All via Eurozine.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1159225029026254932006-09-26T08:47:00.000+10:002006-09-26T08:57:09.070+10:00Question on the Relationship between Justice and Punishment

I recently spent a couple of hours talking a criminology student through various aspects of Foucault’s work – in particular disciplinary mechanisms and prisons – in the context of a paper she was writing about the success of prisons.While this conversation was taking place, especially during the two hour intermission that was legal ethics (week nine – game theory and client counselling), the

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1159222914808449712006-09-26T08:08:00.000+10:002006-09-26T08:21:54.880+10:00Philosopher's Carnival, No. thirty-six

The 36th Philosopher's Carnival is being hosted by What is it like to be a blog?

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1158316152743516152006-09-15T20:23:00.000+10:002006-09-15T20:29:12.756+10:00Sekirew on Kanzan

‘Yes, Kanzan’s heart is like an autumn moon, but what about your own heart? Isn’t it also like the autumn moon? Instead of using another’s thoughts create your own’ – Ashiza Sekirew, ‘Enso’

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1157930842895260612006-09-11T09:23:00.000+10:002006-09-11T09:27:22.896+10:00On ‘Choose Life’

Peter Singer, with Agata Saga, has contributed to the Australian debate regarding the legal status of stem-cell technology research, with an article in The Bulletin.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1157930577354938912006-09-11T09:10:00.000+10:002006-09-11T09:22:57.373+10:00On ‘Schopenhauer’

William R. Schroeder’s review of Julian Young’s Schopenhauer, for NDPR.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1158015738885929772006-09-11T08:59:00.000+10:002006-09-12T09:02:43.460+10:00On the 11th of September 2001

Allegedly, five years ago the world changed.Perhaps the locus of change was simply in the mode of perception.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1157584717277199732006-09-07T09:13:00.000+10:002006-09-07T09:18:37.276+10:00Philosopher's Carinval, No. Thirty-five

The 35th Philosopher's Carnival - the 'back to school edition' - is being hosted by Philosopher's Playground.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1157168251859838702006-09-02T13:36:00.000+10:002006-09-02T13:37:31.860+10:00Spinoza On Gladness

‘there is no small difference between the gladness by which a drunk is led and the gladness a philosopher possesses.’ – Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics (London: Penguin, 1996), p. 102.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1157168016049820732006-09-02T13:31:00.000+10:002006-09-02T13:33:36.050+10:00On ‘Foucault the Neohumanist?’

Richard Wolin, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, advances a humanist reconsideration of Foucault’s position.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1157167829304351802006-09-02T13:10:00.000+10:002006-09-02T13:30:29.356+10:00On Jahanbegloo

It was noted, in an earlier post, that Ramin Jahanbegloo had been imprisoned in Iran. In the past couple of days it has been confirmed that he has recently been released.Eurozine has published a paper, delivered by Jahanbegloo earlier this year, on ‘the clash of intolerances’.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1153436398301632852006-07-21T08:41:00.000+10:002006-07-21T08:59:58.323+10:00Question On Philosophers And Imprisonment

An Iranian philosopher – Ramin Jahanbegloo – is presently imprisoned (apparently in solitary confinement). (On Jahanbegloo, a collection of his papers and an interview with Postel.)While there is a tradition of philosophers being imprisoned – Socrates springs to mind – it seems somewhat discordant with the state of the discipline at present. This raises an interesting question – are there any

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1153434985300065672006-07-21T08:26:00.000+10:002006-07-21T08:36:25.330+10:00On the Dictionary of War

An interesting project, coming out of Germany, attempting to set out one hundred concepts – in the form of a dictionary – associated with war. [Via Utne.]

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1152752519531860572006-07-12T10:54:00.000+10:002006-07-13T11:01:59.566+10:00On Dreyfus

‘Human justice makes human errors. No human effort is immune from error’ – Justice Michael Kirby (High Court of Australia), ‘The Dreyfus Case a Century On – Ten Lessons for Australia’Today marks the centenary of the Dreyfus acquittal.[This is also the 100th post on epideixis, which is considerably less significant.]

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1152445030511710742006-07-09T21:37:00.000+10:002006-07-09T21:48:26.540+10:00The Death of Foucault

I started reading Derrida the other day, only to be hit with the thought, why? It seemed like something that I should be interested in, but it all seems a bit irrelevant now. Who was the last deconstructionist you met? Or the last person who actually read Derrida?So i stopped reading Derrida and started reading Habaermas. Martin then asked me 'why would you want to read Habermas?' Sadly it feels

Captain Kickarsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09761360601256251604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1151992473672180912006-07-04T15:47:00.000+10:002006-07-04T15:54:33.673+10:00Hart On Morality

‘Morality, what crimes may be committed in thy name!’ – HLA Hart, ‘Immorality and Treason’.[There’s not been a sermon here in some months; this sort of feels like one … possibly delivered by Nietzsche in the midst of the Genealogy …]

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1151991557916184452006-07-04T15:35:00.000+10:002006-07-04T15:39:17.930+10:00Philosopher’s Carnival, No. thirty-two

The 32nd Philosopher’s Carnival is being hosted by Adventures in Ethics and Science.

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1151881410627696062006-07-03T08:59:00.000+10:002006-07-03T09:06:17.903+10:00On Singer’s ‘The Freedom to Ridicule Religion-and Deny the Holocaust’

Peter Singer – recently listed by The Bulletin as one of the hundred most influential Australians, alongside philosophical spectre John Anderson – has argued that Austria’s laws criminalising Holocaust denial are a contravention of free speech which demonstrate the hypocrisy inherent in Europe’s attitude towards free speech.Why does reading Singer so often result in a sense of ‘if only things

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1151880993817573912006-07-03T08:54:00.000+10:002006-07-03T08:56:33.816+10:00What is it like to be a blog – Philoblog Notice

What is it like to be a blog – a wide ranging, and young, grad-philoblog.[It may be noticed that these have become notices rather than reviews, simply because they are more notices than reviews …]

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1151880854232941752006-07-03T08:33:00.000+10:002006-07-03T08:54:14.246+10:00On Carl Schmitt

Long Sunday has attempted to conclude the discussion of Carl Schmitt it instigated …

MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19401464.post-1151805217313495652006-07-02T11:43:00.000+10:002006-07-02T11:53:37.313+10:00On Hamdan v Rumsfeld

The Supreme Court of The United States of America opinions in Hamdan v Rumsfeld have been released.Legal Theory has this collection of the early commentary.

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