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osopher wrote 1 month ago: Doesn’t seem like it’d take a rocket scientist or child prodigy to bump Kant’s int … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Ayn Rand, kant, Little Miss Sunshine, mill, Nietzsche, the box, Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism and Other Essays (J.S. Mill, J. Bentham; Ed. A. Ryan)

thefunnymountain wrote 1 month ago: Jeremy Bentham, lawyer and legal reformer, wrote a series of books and essays over the last quarter … more →

Tags: Book Notes, John Stuart Mill, Philosophy, Utilitarianism

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

kilodeltamike wrote 1 month ago: Neatly combining the topics of a number of my previous posts, namely the surveillance society, compu … more →

Tags: Critical Social Psychology, Group/Intergroup Processes, Social Influence, Big Brother, Surveillance, Internet, kilodeltamike, Foucault, discipline and punish

Rational Choice and Conscious Irrationality

noompa wrote 1 month ago: This past week, my Perspectives class studied Rational Choice; needless to say, the issue provoked r … more →

Tags: Oikonomikos, Cogito ergo sum, Behavioral Economics, rational choice, Olson, political psychology

Chapter 49 ~ "Panopticism" by Michel Foucault

Shon wrote 2 months ago: Chapter 49 ~ “Panopticism” by Michel Foucault (1978) Foucault begins with a discussion a … more →

Tags: TCR, 5369, carter, Philosophy of Technology, Theories of technology, technology, Foucault

Embalmed Bentham

khsrs wrote 2 months ago: If you want to get up close and personal with Jeremy Bentham then you can visit his body in King … more →

Tags: A-Level, as, ethics

Operation Bentham

sytaffel wrote 2 months ago: Having mounted a public relations campaign in an attampt to restore the image of the met after the G … more →

Tags: activism, climate change, Climate, climate camp, ClimateCamp, police

Channel Hopping

Tim wrote 2 months ago: Onfray says that French philosophy, preferring German Idealism, has often ignored the Anglo-Saxon tr … more →

Tags: Philosophy, History Of Philosophy, Michel Onfray, mill, peirce

Holoptic Foresight Dynamics - Part 2: The Evolutionary Path Toward Holoptic Environments in Organizations and Society5 comments

Frank Spencer wrote 3 months ago: In my last post on HFD, I covered the basics of holopticism, noting that a many-membered view of the … more →

Tags: Memes, Foresight, Social Futures, Organizational Futures, Foresight Techniques, Spiral dynamics, Open-Source, social change, Human development

Quote of the Day 14 May 091 comment

Mahala wrote 6 months ago: Jeremy Bentham  It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is t … more →

Tags: Quotes

Why I'm a Vegetarian10 comments

missivesfrommarx wrote 6 months ago: It’s not complicated. There’s just two steps. First, take this quote from Jeremy Bentham … more →

Tags: Capitalism and Exploitation, Torture, Vegetarianism, suffering, Utilitarianism, PETA, Factory Farming, Animal Cruelty

Editor-In-Chief Quits Over 'Active Thermitic Material'

Erik Larson wrote 7 months ago: Professor Marie-Paule Pileni has resigned as editor-in-chief of the Open Chemical Physics Journal ov … more →

Tags: 9/11, Erik Larson, Accountability, World Trade Center, controlled demolition, Steven Jones, Science, thermate, thermite

panopticons for all!1 comment

evie wrote 9 months ago: jeremy bentham would be so proud. or perhaps he is rolling in his grave completely nonplussed at thi … more →

Tags: piranesi, Art, Sculpture, England, Panopticon, Prison

Feminists Don't Have to Be Pro-Choice1 comment

newfeminist wrote 1 year ago: If there’s one thing that the doomed selection of Sarah Palin has proved, it’s that femi … more →

Tags: Feminism, Philosophy, Sarah Palin, feminists, Anti-Feminist, Abortion, Pro-Life, pro choice, feminist

Decision Making: Outcome or Process? Reason or Emotion?

psychistorian wrote 1 year ago: Lecture 16.  October 14 and 20. Afterthoughts.  In examining the moral question, we looked at two ki … more →

Tags: evolution of psychological systems, History of Psychology, Rationality, Cognitive Psychology, kant, moral question

How can the state’s justification be achieved?1 comment

Claudia Giampietri wrote 1 year ago: There are many different types of state. It seems, however, that all of them have something in commo … more →

Tags: Political Philosophy, Political Philosphy, Locke, Justification of the State, Hume, Hart, Nozick

Plato, a Platypus, a Bookstore, Bad Jokes and Eternal Truth1 comment

Gary Spear wrote 1 year ago: by Gary Meghan Hill, Lindsay Slone and I walked into a book store in Detroit, Michigan. Sounds like … more →

Tags: New Thoughts, Books, God, Jesus, Life, Christianity, Thoughts, Eternity, Law

Transparency: An Introduction to Panopticism7 comments

Genghis Philip wrote 1 year ago: Over the next week or two, I’ll be posting a series of articles about transparent identity. These ar … more →

Tags: critical theory, Transparency, Foucault, Genghis's Thesis, Panopticon

Discipline and Punishment through Social Media1 comment

Michael wrote 1 year ago: It is no mystery that candidates for federal public office, most of the time, go through a fairly vi … more →

Tags: reputation management, Foucault, philosopher king, canadian election, Candidate


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