“Admirers of Marx and Freud tend to claim both that their ideas had a positive net effect and that these ideas would not have been proposed had Marx and Freud never lived” - " I concur with the latter claim, but not with the former," says Jon Elster (Columbia) (from 2011, via MR).“When you long / To invent right and wrong / When you’re glad / To explore good and bad / But you’re through / Telling folks what to do - That’s metaethics! - Nomy Arpaly and Jamie Dreier (Brown) sing about metaethics, backed up by Michael Smith (Princeton) on guitar.“Technology tempts us into being satisfied with pseudo-friendships” - Paul Woodruff (Texas), who says his “end is near”, reflects on technology and friendship.What it is like to be a philosopher in Ukraine–before 1991 and after - a report from Viatkina Nataliia (Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
“Works of art that illustrate philosophy are inventive in their presentation of abstract philosophical ideas in concrete visual form even as they attest to the importance of written philosophy as a source of artistic inspiration” - Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke) on how art can illustrate philosophy.“Why make a law about something that doesn’t exist?” - the puzzle that prompted philosopher Daniel Hoek (Virginia Tech) to discover that what we've known for 300 years as Newton's first law is based on a mistaken translation.
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