Category Archives: Philosophy

Appreciative students

Posted on 15th February 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I had a lovely chat with some of my students last week. It was a usual level 1 philosophy seminar and I’d put them into groups of 2-3 to go through some Rousseau quotes together and decide what to make … Continue reading →

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The blind leading the blind

Posted on 26th January 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Pieter Brueghel the Elder – The Blind Leading the Blind flickr photo by Gandalf’s Gallery shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Thoughts without intuitions are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, B 75 … Continue reading →

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Pic n Mix Philosophy

Posted on 10th January 2016 by NomadWarMachine

There’s a theory in the Philosophy of Religion called religious pluralism, which has many variations, one of which is the belief that no one religion has got it right, but that parts of different religions can be combined to find … Continue reading →

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Making an ass out of you and me

Posted on 17th October 2015 by NomadWarMachine

In his History of Animals, Aristotle asserts that: Males have more teeth than females in the case of men, sheep, goats, and swine. History of Animals 2, 3 One wonders why he did not conduct an empirical study before making this … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein and games

Posted on 12th July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

rubber duck 016 flickr photo by dyhchan shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license I haven’t even been lurking in #clmooc this week – I’ve been away on a cruise to the Faroes and some Scottish Islands on a ship … Continue reading →

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Pay it Forward

Posted on 12th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m in a lucky place. I’ve ended up with a relatively well paid job and a husband who earns more than me. We’re not rich, but we can buy what we want on our weekly supermarket shop and still have … Continue reading →

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Heterogeneous rhizomes

Posted on 1st June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

When folk hear about the concept of a rhizome in D&G they often assume, not unreasonably, that the analogy being made is to the botanical concept of ginger, or potatoes, or Japanese Knotweed. Well, sometimes it is, and it can be … Continue reading →

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Steal and Remix

Posted on 17th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

So I know Alan objects to us using “stealing” to mean “remixing with the author’s permission”, but it’s something I say quite often, along with things like “can I nick a chip?”, although bizarrely I get mildly irritated when folk … Continue reading →

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My perspective on #rhizo15

Posted on 16th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

There’s been lots of talk about objectives and subjectives in #rhizo15 since Dave set this week’s topic. I played around with words such as subjecting ourselves as subjects and objecting to being treated like objects, but then I gave up … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein PI

Posted on 1st March 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m so used to abbreviating Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations  to “PI” now that I’d forgotten how funny it used to seem.  Here’s a cartoon that a friend drew for me when we were undergrads together (she gave me permission to publish it … Continue reading →

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