Last week (November 20, 2019), I discussed one aspect of etymological lunacy. Looking for a (or even the) protolanguage is a sound idea, even though specialists’ efforts in this direction have been both successful and disappointing. The existence of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Semitic can hardly be doubted; yet many crucial details remain unknown. — Read on … Continue reading Etymology and delusion, part 2 | OUPblog
Category: Philosophy
Diana as Personification of the Night (ca. 1765) by Anton Maengs
Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live – Issue 75: Story – Nautilus
We are all storytellers; we make sense out of the world by telling stories. And science is a great source of stories. Not so, you… — Read on m.nautil.us/issue/75/story/our-brains-tell-stories-so-we-can-live
Saint George and the Dragon (c. 1470), by Paulo Uccello
Geopolitics of Ancient Greece: Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon
Geopolitics of Ancient Greece: Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon — Read on youtu.be/vn7Y0NHbrEI In this presentation we will discuss lessons for geopolitics from three great books written in Ancient Greece. The Histories of Herodotus, the History of Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and the Hellenica by Xenophon. While Herodotus is considered to be the Father of History, … Continue reading Geopolitics of Ancient Greece: Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon
An Actual Sequence View of Freedom – 3:16
van Inwagen thinks we can bypass these issues because the real threat to our free will is not causal determination (our acts having deterministic causes) but simply determination (our acts being necessitated by past events and the natural laws), since this is enough to guarantee that we cannot ever do otherwise. I think this is … Continue reading An Actual Sequence View of Freedom – 3:16
Democracy and Its Discontents | by Adam Tooze | The New York Review of Books
Democracy and Its Discontents | by Adam Tooze | The New York Review of Books — Read on http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/democracy-and-its-discontents/
How Erasmus Darwin’s poetry prophesied evolutionary theory | Aeon Ideas
The prescience of art: Erasmus Darwin’s poetry anticipated the theory of evolution before his grandson Charles was even born — Read on aeon.co/ideas/how-erasmus-darwins-poetry-prophesied-evolutionary-theory
Summer Reading 2019: Philosophy | Five Books Expert Recommendations
If you're looking for the perfect philosophy books to take on holiday in 2019, look no further. Great beach reads, picked by philosopher Nigel Warburton. — Read on fivebooks.com/best-books/philosophy-summer-reading-2019-nigel-warburton/
For Argument’s Sake | History Today
After 800 years, a playful medieval poem still offers lessons in how not to debate. — Read on http://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/argument’s-sake
