Author: Huenemann

Pretty funny.

Advisory: naughty words used (aplenty).

There is a good YouTube interview with John Perry, a philosopher at Stanford who has been hugely influential in thinking about personal identity. What’s especially valuable is the personality Perry shows — patience, wisdom, and modesty. Worth a look.

See the results of a largish poll here.

I just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night, and was struck by the prominence of Heideggerian themes in it. I know a lot of students out there are hopped up on Heidegger — one of you should write a paper on the Heideggerian elements in the movie. Some of the themes I saw: the overall significance of time for Dasein (Button’s aging process as the reverse of everyone elses’s, and the questions it raised; the backward-running clock); technological enframement (contrast between the old nursing home and the newer hospital, buttons vs. zippers); importance of care (again, the feeling of the old nursing home, as well as the nuggets of wisdom Button learns along the way); finally, the great need for editing.