Author: Kleiner

Associate Vice Provost and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Utah State University. I teach across the curriculum, but am most interested in continental philosophy, ancient and medieval philosophy as well as Catholic thought, all of which might be summed up as an interest in the ressourcement tradition (returning in order to make progress). I also enjoy spending time thinking about liberal education and its ends.

Rationing health care

Peter Singer was on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” today, discussing the rationing of health care.  Listen here.  Tune in tomorrow for the opposing view (Singer argues we must ration health care, tomorrow they’ll offer the other view).

Singer recently published an article on why we must ration health care in the NYTimes.  Read that article here.

Religion, Culture, Politics

Not a philosophy post (sorry, Huenemann, to religify our blog), but of interest to those interested in religion and culture:

As a former Anglican (Episcopalian) and now Catholic, the recent Papal invitation to Anglicans to convert has been of considerable interest.  It appears some, and perhaps many, will take the Pope up on his offer (the Archbishop of Westminster has already expressed his interest).  There are lots of things at work here, and this article in the Times does a nice job of sorting some of them out.

Atheism-Theism debate

SHAFT will be showing a new documentary called Collision this Wednesday (Oct 28th) in the Engineering Building, room 302 at 5pm.  The documentary follows noted blowhard errrr public intellectual and atheist Christopher Hitchens and his foil Douglas Wilson (a theist) as the two travel around the country debating the atheism/theism.

All are welcome to attend.  Visit the SHAFT page for more info and for a preview clip.