Category: Authors
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Status Quaestionis – Tamar Sharon
Each Status Quaestionis Splijtstof interviews a teacher or researcher in philosophy about their current projects and academic topics of interest. For this edition Jochem and Ted visited dr. Tamar Sharon, associate professor practical philosophy at the Radboud University, and co-founder of the brand new interdisciplinary Hub for Security, Privacy and Data Governance (iHub). We sat…
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Can I Still Listen to Michael Jackson?
Preamble Like wounded infantrymen caught in the sights of a crack shot enemy sniper, celebrities fall one by one to the unstoppable bullet of cancellation. From Woody Allen (handsy paedo) to Harvey Weinstein (all round scumbag), Roseanne Barr (racist) to R Kelly (sex fiend), each new day seems to bring a fresh allegation of unsavoury…
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The Wooden Duck of Edinburgh
Philosophical Story On June 11, 1762, Rousseau was ordered to leave France after the government banned his educational treatise Emile. His protectress, Marie-Charlotte-Hippolyte wrote to Hume asking him to house the Frenchman in Scotland, where the heart is free. Rousseau was not happy with this solution because he never trusted Hume; however, in the last…
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Filosoof op de arbeidsmarkt: René ten Bos
Wat bezielde je eigenlijk om het Denker des Vaderlandschap op je te nemen? Wat dreef je destijds?[Lacht:] Pure ijdelheid, dat is één. Ik kreeg die vraag op een gegeven ogenblik. Er is namelijk een soort comité, ‘de Maand van de Filosofie’, die bepalen wie deze titel kan krijgen. Er waren twee kandidaten, laat ik de…
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Introduction
Emotions are a pain in the neck sometimes. We have all been there. One day you might start to feel useless, as if you were not adding value to anything you put efforts in. No matter how many times your loved ones tell you that you are a fundamental part of their lives and no…
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Do Animals Think With Their Eyes?
That disproportionally big, mushy thing up there in our heads – we normally assume it to be the sole seat of reason, the stuff that makes us capable of complex thought and intelligent behavior. Cognition, most people believe, is bound to the brain. But might it be possible that what we normally call “cognition” does…
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On Inexactness
Philosophy, and maybe even human thought as such, has long been a quest for exactness; for figuring out the exact nature of reality and the forces that shape it; for figuring out the exact workings of language; for figuring out the exact meaning of happiness, justice, and the good life. Us humans, we gauge, compute…
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Beyond the philosophical toolbox:
Adopting the feminist philosophical approach in mainstream philosophy The Philosophical Toolbox Philosophy is characterised by a remarkable diversity of methods. From conceptual analysis and phenomenology to Taoist intuitionism or Sufist mysticism, philosophers throughout the ages and around the globe have developed a myriad of ways of doing philosophy. A common way of thinking about this…
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Is Lampje bewust?
Het is logisch onmogelijk ooit de binnenwereld van een ander te ervaren, en het is daarom even onmogelijk volledig zeker te weten dat deze binnenwereld bestaat. Als we wel de binnenwereld van een ander ervaren dan is dit niet meer de ander. Dit is het probleem van het epistemologisch solipsisme, en het plaagt al eeuwen…
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Het tegenovergestelde van de horizon
‘Communicatiestation Sigma’ staat met grote blokletters geschreven op de koffiemok die voor mij staat. Daarnaast een klein embleem van de Olympiaanse Alliantie. Dezelfde woorden staan op het toetsenbord waarmee ik dit type en op de kleren die ik aan heb. Vreemd eigenlijk, want de enige persoon in Communicatiestation Sigma hoeft er niet aan herinnerd te…