I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for more than ten years, and more recently, maybe a year and a half ago, I started a gradual transition to veganism. For the past year I’ve been more or less vegan — ‘more or less’ because I’ve still made a few exceptions in cases where vegan food simply wasn’t [...]
I tend to bookmark some blog posts that I find interesting in the hopes that I’d some day get around to commenting on them on my own blog. Most of the time that doesn’t happen, or by the time I get around to it the posts are quite old. But that doesn’t mean that it [...]
My sister pointed me towards this BBC Radio 4 podcast in The Infinite Monkey Cage series (Mon 6th December 2010 edition). It seems to have been prompted by Stephen Hawking’s comments to the effect that philosophy is dead in his recent book. A rather superficial discussion, although Julian Baggini and Raymond Tallis clarify some of [...]
The latest addition to the Wiley-Blackwell Philosophy for Everyone series is now out: Cannabis: What Were We Just Talking About?. I’ve got a paper in the volume as well, it’s entitled ‘Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy‘. You can buy the volume from Amazon (but you can download my paper from the previous [...]
Just a week left until the deadline of this conference. Not really on my area at all, but I find the theme interesting, and it does relate to issues that I have written about, e.g. the drug culture. Also, Sydney is a great city! Conference Call for Papers: “The Unacceptable” 29th April – 1st May [...]
Nigel Warburton and James Ladyman discuss the prospects of popularizing philosophy here (a BBC article and BBC Radio 4 clip). Nothing particularly surprising there — Warburton, who is behind the Philosophy Bites podcasts and is publishing a related book is very optimistic about making philosophy intelligible for the layman, whereas Ladyman, whose work is primarily [...]
One of the blogs that I follow, Blog o’ Beer, has just started a new section on beer books. I thought this might be something worth sharing. I recommended the inclusion of the new Wiley-Blackwell Beer and Philosophy volume as well. Unfortunately I missed the CFP for that and didn’t get the chance to write [...]
An online version of the so called Trolley problem recently sparked discussion on one of the philosophy mailing lists. The discussion concerned the reference to a ‘very fat man’ in the description of the problem. The Trolley problem concerns moral philosophy, which I know very little about and have very little interest towards, but I [...]
As some of you may know, Wiley-Blackwell has a new popular philosophy series aptly titled Philosophy for Everyone. One of the forthcoming volumes, edited by Dale Jacquette, is Cannabis & Philosophy: What Were We Just Talking About?. When I saw the call for papers I was reminded of my high school years when I used [...]
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