Anyone with a fast internet connection should have a bookmark to TED talks. Here is a link. TED is an organization (Technology, Education, and Design) which sponsors conferences at which major idea-people get together and offer short lectures or performances. You can watch anyone from Bill Clinton to Stephen Hawking to Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) to Jane Goodall to Daniel Dennett, etc. “Ideas worth spreading” is its tagline. Watching a couple over a week, during lunch, or during a 20-minute down-time, really gets you thinking about many new and exciting possibilities.
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“If God is Dead, Who Gets His House?”
Great title for an essay; read the whole thing here.
Student philosophy papers
Here are five papers by USU undergraduates presented at this spring’s LPSC Colloquium. Feel free to post any replies/objections/comments/questions!
alexei-bastidas-sartre-and-marx1
daniel-tate-nietzsche-and-wagner1
jordan-daines-nietzsche-and-dostoevsky1
jeremiah-graves-conceptions-of-faith-kierkegaard-and-mormonism
Congratulations to these students (and others!) for presenting these papers!
Reinventing the sacred?
“My aim is to reinvent the sacred. I present a new view of a fully natural God and of the sacred, based on a new, emerging scientific worldview. This new worldview reaches further than science itself and invites a new view of God, the sacred, and ourselves—ultimately including our science, art, ethics, politics, and spirituality. My field of research, complexity theory, is leading toward the reintegration of science with the ancient Greek ideal of the good life, well lived. It is not some tortured interpretation of fundamentally lifeless facts that prompts me to say this; the science itself compels it.”
Full article here.
The future?
It’s the last week of classes (or so I hear). What are your summer plans? Any goals? Any goofy adventures? Any unbelievably boring prospects? I plan to be reading, writing, reading, writing Nietzsche — woo hoo!!! And riding my bike.
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