Thursday, March 5, 2009

Best Philosopher in the Last 200 Years

The Leiter Reports is doing a poll on who's been the best Philosopher in the last 200 years; it is quite silly on many grounds -especially since John Rawls is on the short list (not that he's not good fun to read)- but I thought it might be fun. Here it is.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Emerge this!

The Pitt HPS Club will be discussing the super-general, related-to-everything phenomenon of EMERGENCE for our next meeting. Below is a sexy podcast by WNYC's Radiolab, which will offer a good jumping off point for discussion.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2005/02/18

Feel free to post desired discussion topics below.