Author: Huenemann

Congratulations to Will Holloway and Carson Bessinger, each of whom presented a paper at the UVU undergrad philosophy conference yesterday, and each of whom performed fabulously. It was a marathon of a conference, with two papers presented each hour from 8 to 4 with only one break, which was when I had a guest appearance in a Nietzsche class. The papers were uniformly impressive, and the discussions were provocative and intelligent. Everyone patiently endured my keynote address, and then there was a fancy dinner afterward with about 10 of us, including Will. With driving, a 14-hour day for me — exhausting, but in a good way.

Read an intellectual essay on it here. Do any of you play this game? Is it as fun as it sounds? Is it art? Does it corrupt your soul?

Read David Brooks’ short but tedious essay on whether there’s any point in doing philosophy. I frequently find his essays intelligent, but hey, I guess every brain needs a holiday.

Here is an essay on finding/creating purpose in a Darwinian world. Not the greatest essay, but on the mark, I’d say.

A bumper crop:

The hitherto unknown religious views of the late great John Rawls

Whether Kant might have thought it’s okay to tell a lie sometimes

A philosopher living with a wolf

Enjoy!