Spring Comps

I guess I should post some useful information while I'm at it.

Here is the Comp schedule:

Comprehensive Exam in Ethics: Mon, January 28th from 9am-noon

Comprehensive Exam in Social and Political Philosophy: Wed, January 30th, from 9am to noon.

Come to the dept. with a laptop if you're taking 'em.

taking a break now

here is my contribution to the debt-limit crisis

unfortunately, there wasn't enough room to fit "dollars" on it

happy exam week

funny MLA ha ha

from Inside Higher Ed

same shit, different disciplines

Mostly German Philosophers Love Song

The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song 
J. Boor 
Hegel, I Goethe Goethe have ya, 'Cause I Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche So bad. 
I'd like to Leibniz the stars with you. But I know you'd Schopenhauer late, like you always do. 
So I say, Hegel ... 


here's the guitarring and the singing: link

h/t: Edgar

SPEL colloquium

There is a SPEL colloquium this Thursday, Dec 6, from 11:45-1:00 in UUW 324.

Speaker: Carlos Cortissoz

IASH

December 5, 2012

Robert Guay, Associate Professor, Philosophy

IASH Fellows’ Speaker Series:  “Nietzsche on Truth and Politics”

Nietzsche's account of truth is usually taken as an offering a radical form of skepticism or relativism. Robert Guay will argue that Nietzsche's main interest in truth was in identifying a conflict between a transcendent sense of truth and a sense of truth required to govern linguistic and epistemic practices; Nietzsche's concern was that a common conflation of these senses leads to harmful effects on a variety of social practices.

12:00pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)