The Philosophy of “I Heart Huckabees”
Via The BBC David O Russell took the 1994 Sundance Festival by storm with coming-of-age yarn Spanking The Monkey and two years later directed Ben Stiller in screwball comedy Flirting With Disaster. However, it wasn’t until the release of his Gulf war satire Three Kings in 1999 (starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg) that he [...]
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The Philosophy of “I Heart Huckabees”
Via The BBC David O Russell took the 1994 Sundance Festival by storm with coming-of-age yarn Spanking The Monkey and two years later directed Ben Stiller in screwball comedy Flirting With Disaster. However, it wasn’t until the release of his Gulf war satire Three Kings in 1999 (starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg) that he [...]
Rutten’s argument for the existence of God
by Alexander Pruss Emanuel Rutten sent me the following interesting argument which I am posting with his permission. Please make sure to be clear that if you cite this post, everything except the title, the preceding sentence and this sentence, is taken verbatim from Rutten. He has some other interesting arguments on his blog, some of which [...]
Is Narrative Identity Four-Dimensionalist?
by Patrick Stokes Abstract The claim that selves are narratively constituted has attained considerable currency in both analytic and continental philosophy. However, a set of increasingly standard objections to narrative identity are also emerging. In this paper, I focus on metaphysically realist versions of narrative identity theory, showing how they both build on and differ [...]
Collective Responsibility
by Mike Labossier Protestors, or at least people characterized as protestors, engaged in acts of vandalism and violence in Oakland. These incidents took place after a peaceful protest in the same city. Not surprisingly, the non-violent protestors disavowed these destructive actions. Not surprisingly, people who are critical of the occupier movement might be inclined to [...]
Rage and Reason
by David Remnick Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s chief representative in Jerusalem, is perhaps the most moderate adviser in the councils of Yasir Arafat. (He is no doubt the only one to have worked on a kibbutz or to have written a graduate-school essay at Harvard on Wittgenstein and the role of jokes in [...]
