Author: Huenemann

… is available. I’ve put extra copies in the envelope on my office door, Main 208. Looks like a very good collection of essays by undergraduates in philosophy.

Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

Read the rest of the interview with Woody Allen here.

A few students have asked me about the possibility of forming some sort of informal reading group over the summer, thus avoiding the very real dangers of intellectual withdrawal. So let this be a space for self-organization: if you are interested, add a comment, maybe with a proposal of what to read, or when/where to meet. I can’t promise how involved I’ll be, as I have a book to write, but I hope to poke my head in here and there, at the very least.

The famous Monty Python soccer match, between the German Idealists and the Ancient Greeks, is scheduled for a rematch. Details here.

What, you don’t know of this famous match? Shame on you. Once again, here it is:

The Student Research Symposium sponsored by our department is being held tomorrow, from 3:30 to 5:45. Many interesting papers are to be delivered! More details are available in our Department office, Main 204. But I want to specifically mention those of philosophical interest:

Friday, April 23, 3:30 pm, Main 207:

Andrew Barnard, “Schultze Gets the Blues: The Aesthetic Philosophies of Schopenhauer and Plato”
Grayson Weeks, “Ransom Theory and LDS Perspectives”
Jonathan Chambers, “Kantian Legal Positivism: an Oxymoron?”