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Three minute philosophy

YouTube user CollegeBinary does a video series called Three Minute Philosophy. Each episode describes the views and beliefs of a noted philosopher: Galileo, Kant, Descartes, Locke, and more.

By Jason Kottke  •  Jul 22, 2010  •  philosophy   video

David Foster Wallace, philosopher

A short piece on David Foster Wallace's college philosophy thesis.

Even after he began writing fiction in college -- he simultaneously completed a second undergraduate thesis, in English, that ultimately became his 1987 novel, "The Broom of the System" -- it was still philosophy that defined him academically. "I knew him as a philosopher with a fiction hobby," Jay Garfield, an adviser on Wallace's thesis and now a professor at Smith College, told me recently. "I didn't realize he was one of the great fiction writers of his generation with a philosophy hobby."

By Jason Kottke  •  Dec 15, 2008  •  David Foster Wallace   philosophy

On Richard Dawkins, relativism, and truth.

On Richard Dawkins, relativism, and truth.

By Jason Kottke  •  Dec 30, 2005  •  philosophy   Richard Dawkins   science

More philosopher ratings, this time from Crispin Sartwell

More philosopher ratings, this time from Crispin Sartwell. "jacques derrida: there's something to be said for the deconstructuive method, a tool which i've been known to throw around myself. otherwise, this is so, so, so full of shit. obviously, it's intentionally obscurantist, which is i guess supposed to be part of the profound game of defamiliarizing language etc. fuck you.'

By Jason Kottke  •  Jul 18, 2005  •  best of   jacquesderrida   lists   philosophy

BBC Radio 4 poll results for Greatest Philosopher Ever!!

BBC Radio 4 poll results for Greatest Philosopher Ever!!. 1. Karl "Boom Boom" Marx; 2. David "The Kid" Hume; 3. Ludwig "Van" Wittgenstein; 4. Friedrich "Freddie" Nietzsche; 5. Plato "Johnson"

By Jason Kottke  •  Jul 18, 2005  •  best of   davidhume   friedrichnietzsche   karlmarx   lists   ludwigwittgenstein   philosophy   plato   polls

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