Showing posts with label Hist337. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hist337. Show all posts
Friday, April 27, 2012

Quote of the Day: Surprised by the Simple

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From the book that my class is reading for today: This is a surprising discovery, though the facts are entirely obvious to us. It is import...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Poem of the Day: Continuing to Live

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We are discussing (selected chapters from) Richard Rorty 's Contingency, Irony and Solidarity today in my class . At the beginning of t...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Quote of the Day

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Theodorides's Epigram (and Diverse Tangentially Related Matters)

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A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, Bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, Weathered the gale. -- Theodorid...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Kay Ryan Rides on Neurath's Raft (Kay Ryan Week™, Day 3)

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Remember, today is Special Class Cross-Over Day as Attempts ' Epically Earth-shattering Kay Ryan Week™ continues... As I mentioned a f...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Quote of the Day

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It is easy for us to lose ourselves in details in endeavoring to grasp and comprehend the real condition of a mass of human beings. We often...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

An Economical Example of Thomas Kuhn's Inconsistency About His Own Ideas

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...[T]he proponents of competing paradigms practice their trades in different worlds. [...] Practicing in different worlds, the two groups o...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

The Other Life of Russell Kirk

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Russell Kirk is best known as one of the intellectual founders of modern American conservatism; his best known work is The Conservative Min...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Quote of the Day: Walter Lippmann's Offhand Diss of Landscape Painters

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It is like turning from the landscape in the parlor to the ploughed field outdoors. It is a return to the three dimensional world, after a s...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Poem of the Day: Waste Land Limericks

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In honor of my students discussing the original for today, I present the classic parody... Waste Land Limericks I In April one seldom feels...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Snarky Academic Comment of the Day

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In later years Dewey deliberately adopted an antirhetorical style, in the belief that readers should be persuaded by the cogency of the thou...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Fifth Beatle of Pragmatism

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Who is the "fifth Beatle" of pragmatism? What does that question even mean? Ok, it goes like this. Everyone decided (for some inex...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Quote of the Day: The Problem with Simple Philosophies

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Characterizing Pragmatism

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Pragmatism is an incredibly important philosophical and intellectual movement -- "widely described as America's distinctive philoso...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Stray Thoughts on William Graham Sumner's What Social Classes Owe Each Other

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A week or two ago, preparing for class, I reread William Graham Sumner's What Social Classes Owe Each Other (1883). After doing so, I ...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Did You Know That Henry James Participated In a Round-Robin Novel?

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I didn't. But it seems he did: The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors (1908) includes a chapter by Henry James -- Chapter 7, ...

Quote of the Day: Peirce Contra Descartes

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American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839—1914) goes at the central move in the philosophy of the robot-lover Descartes , in this ...
Friday, February 04, 2011

I Wish I Wasn't Too Cynical To Believe This

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Nothing new, no time-saving devices, -- simply old time-glorified methods of delving for Truth, and searching out the hidden beauties of l...
Friday, January 14, 2011

William James Contra the Ph.D. Degree

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...is not our growing tendency to appoint no instructors who are not also doctors [i.e. holders of a Ph.D.] an instance of pure sham? Will a...
Saturday, January 08, 2011

Syllabus for The History of American Thought Since 1865, Spring 2011

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Starting a week and a half from now, I'm teaching (for the first time) an upper-level course on U.S. intellectual history , entitled The...
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