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One of a Kind
David Stove was a philosopher of the not-cut-to pattern kind. (Is that a kind? Just how many are there?) For example, he did not hesitate to kick the seemingly unassailable Charles Darwin in the shins for a train of errors … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, Abigail L. Rosenthal’s Getting Past Marx and Freud, academic history, academic philosophy, academic politics, academic rivalry, Analytic philosophy, Anti-Utopianism, atheism and suicide, Australian academe, Australian politics, Bill Lycan, candid correspondence, capsizing an orderly life, Charles Darwin, colleagues and conformism, commonsensical philosopher, concealing a sensitive soul, conservatism and liberalism, Continental philosophy, crisis overpowering coping strategies, cultural assumptions, Darwin and human motivation, Darwin’s theoretical shortcomings, David Armstrong, David Hume, David Stove, David Stove Archive, David Stove’s Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution, dramatic life change, Edgar Allan Poe, empiricism, eulogy, ex-husbands, Feminism, first husband, gentlemanliness and politics, healthy common sense, ideology and academe, idols of the tribe, intellectual debts, John Bacon, kangaroos and black swans, Marxism, meritocracy, methodological empiricism and metaphysical materialism, Michael Devitt, moderation as lifestyle, non-believer, nonconformist academic, nonconformist philosopher, nonconformist thinking, obituary and posthumous friendship, overpowering crisis, philosophical absurdism, philosophical atheist, philosophical competition, philosophical conversation, philosophical correspondence, philosophical erudition, philosophical gossip, philosophical guide, philosophical Humean, philosophical marriage, Philosophical Materialism, philosophical pen pals, philosophizing with style, philosophy at Sydney University, Poe’s The Raven, political correctness, prayer for suicide victim, private despair, protecting a sensitive soul, providential divorce, providential life-turn, providential marriage, received views, research fellow, right wing and left wing, Roger Kimball, sacred cow, sensitive soul, shocking life-crisis, social conformism, suicide and afterlife, suicide and choice, Sydney Australia, Sydney University Staff Club, Trad and Mod Philosophy Dept, traditional and modern philosophy, tragic crisis in an even-tempered life, trendy philosophy, tyranny of one’s peers, tyranny of public opinion, unexpected crisis, University of Sydney, unsung heroes
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“A Philosopher’s and a Woman’s Place”
“A Philosopher’s and a Woman’s Place” I’ve mentioned that a former colleague — alongside whom many a good fight was fought — has decided (to my great surprise) to nominate me to give one of the American Philosophical Association’s John … Continue reading →
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Tagged "nice girls", "pretty girls", "thinking like a man", "thinking like a woman", "ugly girls", 20th century ideologies, 3:00 o'clock in the morning, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud" Clio Vol. 15 Number 1, academic journals, academic philosophy, acceptance letter, activism, Ambiguity, ambition, anal sex, anomalies, anti-colonial activism, Arab culture, Authenticity, beauty and fashion, body armor, career women, careers, classical virtues, colleagues, collegiality, communism, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cosmopolitan night life, counter-examples, dark night of the soul, Department of General Philosophy, Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, doctoral dissertation, embarrasment, encoded lives, eternal truths, ex-husbands, fallacy of equivocation, family honor, feminine ego, Freudianism, G.W.F. Hegel, historicism, historiography, history and eternal truth, honor killing, hymenoplasty, hypotheses, immodest dress, immolation of women, intellectual freedom, Jehovah's Witnesses, job struggle, John Dewey Lectures, Katherine Zoepf's "Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World", Lebanese women, male ego, masculine thinking, Master's thesis, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, murder, Muslim women, oral sex, originality, partriarchy, peer reviewed journals, philosophy, philosophy journals, piety, primordial fear, problem-solving, professional life, put downs, rape, refereed journals, rejection letter, research, sexual availability, sincerity, surface freedom, Sydney University, Syrian women, talent, The Examined Life, the Other, the philosophic life, the Qur'an, The Woman Question, unauthorized marriage, underground, virginity, Western dress, Western feminists, womanhood, womanliness, women in universities, women's freedom, writer's craft
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“Style”
“Style” Years ago, my acupuncturist used to know a guru named Ramamurti. He still has a following, although he has since passed to his reward. I am told that there are ashrams in Pennsylvania now dedicated to this guru. How … Continue reading →
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