Bookforum Omnivore - Philosophy Unbound

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, another collection of links around the topics of philosophy, philosophical books, morality, and more.


Philosophy unbound

FEB 15 2013 

12:00PM

• A new issue of Essays in Philosophy is out. 
• Maren Behrensen (LIU): Can the Amoralist Be Your Friend? 
• Bruno Guindon (McGill): Buck-Passers and Thick Reasons. 
• Brent G. Kyle (ASAF): How Are Thick Terms Evaluative? 
• Thom Brooks (Durham): Philosophy Unbound: The Idea of Global Philosophy. 
• Lisa N Guenther on reading Plato on death row. 
• Jonathan Simmons reviews Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans. 
• “Wad Some Power The Giftie Gie Us”: Tim Madigan takes up a very gentlemanly system of morals.
• “Philosophy has lost its way”: Mark C. Taylor on his book Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo. 
• Katie Steckles on Principia Mathematica, the Musical. 
• A previously unrecognized moral principle was discovered last week at the University of Mesa.