The Philosophy Discussion Forum

This List is updated every time I finish a book be it Audiobooks which are in Italics and normally from Librivox or conventional paper copy. 1.Book 1 Study is Hard Work Armstrong 2.Book 2 Gang Leader for a Day 3.Book 3 Jeffrey Deaver The Broken Window 4.Book 4 Snyder and Mitchell Cultural Locations ...

Happy Halloween/All Saints Day me I don't 'do' Halloween but Happy day nonetheless. I think her ideas on emotions should be taken into account in legal ideas as they affect both men and women. Men need to be encouraged to let it out just like we all need emotional care. In that sense her ideas shoul...

I finished Nussbaum's Upheaval of Emotions a mega tome of 766pages now I am reading Glover Causing death and Saving Lives and Richard Dawkins The God Delusion which looks like a deconstruction exercise albeit an intelligent one. I plan to follow with Steven Lukes 'Relativism' so its all gist to the ...

I am struggling as a Christian but I would HAPPILY devour the Atheist Reading Lists and participate in their Forums. I am a member of RDF (Richard Dawkins Forums) which is potentially a place of massive learning. I don't wish to hide any Christian belief but I also will not transgress rule about not...

I finished Nussbaum 'Upheavals of the Emotions, the Intelligence of the Emotions' last night all 714 pages before we meet the rather substantive Bibliography. Book 26 out of 50 proposed Reading List for this year. I am trying to work out what to read next. Charles Taylor: Modern Social Imaginaries S...

Richard Dawkins The God Delusion ( 200 pages) and 214 pages to go of Nussbaum's Upheaval of the Emotions I am aiming for the magic 24 then 25 to be 50% of the way through 50 Book Goal including of course beloved Librivox Audiobooks mainly but not exclusively in Philosophy (yes one DOES need to liste...

The Bed is where I like to be, that special warmth, enclosing me. Like a womb, where I do hide. Away from where I can be espied. The Bed is where I like to be, make mine a Boudoir that's where I need to be. Laptop, TV and Iphone to 'earn' the relaxing bed. a place to learn. Oh dear I speak thou in c...

Us ignoramusus need feeding *intellectul zoo* and or Explorer heading off into foreign and unchartered territories.

Te he he he he he he *mischievous* *snatches a juicy paper/public lecture/book title etc from the internet* *mischievous levels soar somewhat exponentially.....spreads the love xxx *rick lewis and co wonder on earth we got 'ere*

Happy Birthday Nikolai and how would you frame your birthday wishes (perhaps with an short explanation for the ignoramouses among us)??

Rick you should really open up a section of ACCESSIBLE Philosophy Sources not ones where one is likely to be asked for an Institutional login as a vast number of us bar Academics and Students cannot access such Repositories.

Ive just finished reading cancer ward by Solzhenitsyn, brilliant book, really gets you thinking about questions of how far you take the idea of "saving" someone. Makes you think about people's different perceptions of a problem too. Anyone read it? Also Im thinking of reading In Cold Bloo...

I also reading The God Delusion for a crash course in Atheism. Only Nussbaum and dawkins now! Book 18 and 19 this year!! I am not yet on two books a month let alone a book a week. My lovely Philosophy Audiobooks on Librivox Bertrand Russell Aristotle, Boethius, Plato etc (must post up list so PN Rea...

I agree some thing like 'The Philosophers Inn' or even have different kinds of venues from Philosophers Cafe to some version of sophisticated Club or Wine Bar with the emphasis firmly on the Socialising and making merry. :D Rick Lewis how wonderful is the idea started by the initiating person and de...

Whether I love a book or authorial point of view or hate it I guess a Review is in order. *imagines laying into some crappy stuff* but I have the highest regard for Academics Reviews if I am able to get hold of them as well as the high points of literary culture in the Broadsheets.