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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

Or: “Art is long, life is short.” In mid-May German archaeologists  announced that they had found a piece of three-dimensional art, a little figurine carved out of mammoth ivory depicting a naked woma… more →

Philosophy On The Mesa

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 weeks ago: Or: “Art is long, life is short.” In mid-May German archaeologists  announced that they had found a … more →

Tags: Art and Music, Culture, Philosophy of Gender, Marija Gimbutas, gerda lerner, Mother Goddess religion, Hohle Fels, fertility figurine, Symbolic Thinking

D-Day: Still Relevant, 65 Years Later? — 1 comment

Nina Rosenstand wrote 4 weeks ago: I’ve been blog-silent for quite a while—first busy with finals, and then being out of town, someplac … more →

Tags: Current Events, Culture, D-day, normandy, Saving Private Ryan

The Story of the Lateralized Brain — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 1 month ago: Weren’t we taught that (1) you’re either “left-brained” or “right-brained”? And weren’t we taught th … more →

Tags: Science, animal intelligence, Lateralized brain; story-telling

The HYPE Virus — 3 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 2 months ago: For the past week I think many would agree that we have been under a mental siege, with no physical … more →

Tags: Current Events, ethics, Swine flu; H1N1 virus; storytelling animal, Alasdair MacIntyre, Gossip, Media ethics

Life on the Table Top — 5 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes I’m wondering if I’m living on a table top, and just haven’t discovered it yet. The signif … more →

Tags: Culture, Philosophy of Literature, frederick pohl, commercials, advertising, Science Fiction, Metaphor

Our 2nd Year! — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 2 months ago: Aside from being Earth Day, today, April 22, is also the day we on this blog celebrate our birthday, … more →

Tags: administration, April 22, Dwight Furrow

Earth Day is Rousseau-Day

Nina Rosenstand wrote 2 months ago: On this Earth Day 2009 I’d like to remind everybody of the immense influence Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( … more →

Tags: ethics, Philosophy, Culture, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Earth Day, state of nature, Environmentalism, Nature

Maybe a Brockovich Moment?

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: I watched part of Erin Brockovich yesterday, and caught one of the best moments in the film—a really … more →

Tags: film, Current Events, Socrates, perchlorate, Erin Brockovich, baby formula, DOXA, rocket fuel

Not Selfish by Nature — 12 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: Compelling evidence of a fundamentally less-than-totally-selfish human nature have surfaced within t … more →

Tags: ethics, Science, psychological egoism, David Hume, compassion, homo heidelbergensis, Out of Africa theory, Jean Jacques Rousseau, neandertals

Celebrating Lévi-Strauss, and Barbie — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: I have neglected to celebrate two significant birthdays on this blog, so now I want to make amends: … more →

Tags: Current Events, Culture, Levi Strauss, Barbie, Roman Jakobson, Ferdinand De Saussure, Structuralism, Anthropology, binary opposites

Determinism Again, Again — 1 comment

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: This started out as a comment to Dwight’s piece on Determinism Is Not Fatalism!, but it grew a … more →

Tags: ethics, Philosophy, Aristotle, Roy Baumeister, Free Will, Determinism, Lebenswelt, Sartre, falsifiability

“In Sync” is Not Just a Metaphor Anymore — 5 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: Dwight has posted about Denmark, so I guess it’s my turn to post about music! According to the Disco … more →

Tags: Science, Art and Music, Philosophy, neural synchronicity, Theory of mind

Faces of Evil--Duncan and Fritzl? — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: As chance will have it, two stories that we’ve been following are unfolding in the news simultaneous … more →

Tags: Current Events, ethics, Criminal Justice, Hannah Arendt; the banality of evil; the concept of evi

God is Not Dead, etc., Part 2 — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 3 months ago: Getting back to the issue of non-religion in Scandinavia (sorry it took so long—I’ve been swamped wi … more →

Tags: ethics, Culture, Religion, Scandinavia, Phil Zuckerman, Peter Steinfels

God is Not Dead, He Just Faded Away? — 8 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 4 months ago: I hurry to post this fascinating article from today’s New York Times about faith and non-faith in Sc … more →

Tags: Culture, ethics, religion; Scandinavia; Phil Zuckerman

Happy Birthday to Unselfish Abe! — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 4 months ago: There is another important 200th birthday today which should not go unnoticed by us, so Happy Birthd … more →

Tags: Current Events, ethics, Abraham Lincoln and the pigs, psychological egoism

Darwin and/or the Quest for Meaning — 5 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 4 months ago: Philosophers like to point out that the Western intellectual world has had its rug pulled out from u … more →

Tags: Current Events, Science, Darwin, theory of evolution, natural selection, Meaning of Life

Poison for Profit, Local Style — 2 comments

Nina Rosenstand wrote 4 months ago: The salmonella-in-peanut-butter scandal is already old, and seems to have dropped off the outrage ra … more →

Tags: Current Events, ethics, Culture

Let the Cloning Begin!

Nina Rosenstand wrote 5 months ago: Here we go! Welcome to the Spring 2009 semester. Lots of topics to talk about. Today’s news (from BB … more →

Tags: Current Events, Science, Culture


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