Let’s Go for a Stroll
The Care Bears as virtue ethicists? Brandon Watson goes there. He’s been on a roll lately, exposing the uselessness of Eric Holder’s ethical support for assassinations, explaining why ethics is public, and, of course, relating the Care Bears to Aristotle and Hume.
Alyssa Rosenberg reflects on an essay by Jane Espenson.
Conor Friedersdorf considers Dennis Kucinich’s defeat.
Are Derrida and formal logic your things? New APPS has a symposium on Paul Livingston’s Derrida and Formal Logic.
A new entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy touches on pluralist theories of truth. Also in philosophy news, The Other Journal has a fascinating interview with Richard Kearney on evil, ethics, and imagination. (H/T: The Stone)
“Let’s Go for a Stroll” is a particularly awesome title for posts like this.
Thank you, Russell. I thought it fit well with the whole “journeys” thing.
One of the best posts I ever wrote (in my previous identity) actually involved the Care Bear ethos and a (platonic) relationship with a devotee that fell apart in part because I did not share that philosophy.