Humanities
Beyond that, it reinvigorates a number of philosophical debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. It also contributes to contemporary debates in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. And finally it can serve to push philosophy to confront its residual iconoclasm that makes some of its practitioners fearful of images and the
Information richness
I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don't. I think they're publications. And I think the role of comments is to add value to the posts. If you want to rebut a post, then you can create your own blog and post
Cliche
The phrase "State of the Art" turns 100 and according to an article in The Smart Set, it is not aging well.
Conversation
in which the speaker's activity is spatially and temporally coupled with the listener's activity. This coupling vanishes when participants fail to communicate. Moreover, though on average the listener's brain activity mirrors the speaker's activity with a delay, we also find areas that
Teaching and Learning
For some, it is designed to "help students prepare for the transition from high school to college". For others, it provides an opportunity to "ponder the relationship between private and public narratives and forms of representation in a range of texts and cultural traditions". In the
EME
Samuel Colbert says that a one-side-accountable, boss-administered review is little more than a dysfunctional pretense. It's a negative to corporate performance, an obstacle to straight-talk relationships, and a prime cause of low morale at work. Even the mere knowledge that such an event will
His plan was to show his coworkers just how dependent they really were on e-mail, emphasizing how many times a day they were compelled to check it, and proving that it was no longer a productivity tool, but a procrastinator’s best friend. One Man's Vision of
Comic relief
From a time when the B.O.O.K. was a new technology Thanks @jlori.
Odds and Ends
Tentative forecasts, 20/20 hindsight.
Odds and Ends
There is something about the sea, I can't be away from it too long. It's like the old Masefield poem [Sea Fever, which begins 'I must go down to the seas again']. It's to do with the fact no one owns it.
Teaching and Learning
Q: 'Why don't you go around and talk to other philosophers?' A: To me that's not philosophy. It is like literary criticism. A real writer, like Hemingway, doesn't cast around for opinions, he goes off fishing somewhere, starts calming down. He said:
Work and the workplace
A few months ago I received an email about a Commencement address by Anna Quindlen and I never got around to looking into it. Highlights: "You will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life