Philosophy of A-Z

A-Z: THE PHILOSOPHY OF (ALMOST) EVERYTHING

eclectic links to interesting and unusual philosophy pages on the web

alcoholism apotemnophilia artificial intelligence ballooning beer being class war dance dick egoism encyclical engineering eskimos evil flies football gambling genetic engineering greed holes homosexuality idolatry indians invisible man irrationality jeet kune do journalism kabbalah kindergarten kubrick life logan's run metaphysics music nationalism national socialism naturism neutron star ndi-igbo nitrious oxide online notebook orwell parliamentary debate peaceful slumber predictions quality roddenberry rudeness running sacrifice slumdog philosopher solipsism star trek stoicism submarines tantra teacher usury vanity volcanoes wagner warfare web whales xenomorph yukio mishima zen zero

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ALCOHOLISM: HERBERT FINGARETTE ON SELF-DECEPTION AND RESPONSIBILITY by Stanton Peele

APOTEMNOPHILIA: WHEN LESS FEELS LIKE MORE by Mark Dillof

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: DID HAL COMMIT MURDER? by Daniel C. Dennett

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ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD'S "WASHING DAY" AND THE MONTGOLFIER BALLOON by Elizabeth Kraft

LIFE AND BEER by Dave Ahl

BEING: IT IS by Parmenides

C

WAR OF THE CLASSES by Jack London

D

SPARSHOTT'S PHILOSOPHY OF DANCE Review by Julie Van Camp

PHILIP K. DICK ON PHILOSOPHY: A BRIEF INTERVIEW by Frank Bertrand

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PHILOSOPHICAL EGOISM: MAX STIRNER (1806—1856) by Andrew Carlson

ENCYCLICAL LETTER 'FIDES ET RATIO' by Pope John Paul II

THE IMPORTANCE OF PHILOSOPHY TO ENGINEERING by Carl Mitcham

ESKIMO PHILOSOPHY: YUPIAQ EDUCATION REVISITED by Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley

HE WOULD IF HE COULD, BUT HE CAN'T SO HE DOESN'T: A LETTER ON THE PROBLEM OF EVIL by Anthony Flood

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FLIES IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Plato, Nietzsche, Stirner, Wittgenstein

FOOTBALL - GOALKEEPER, PHILOSOPHER, OUTSIDER: CAMUS by Igor Mladenovic

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GAMBLING: HUMANS AS COMPUTING BEASTS by Ion Saliu

METAPHYSICS IN GENETIC ENGINEERING: CRYPTIC PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY IN THE 'SCIENCE' OF RISK ASSESSMENTby Philip J. Regal

PREFACE TO THE RIGHT TO BE GREEDY BY "FOR OURSELVES" by Bob Black

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HOLES by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi

THE ETHICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY by Timothy F. Murphy

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FREEDOM TO PRACTICE IDOLATRY by Robert T. Lee

EPISTEMOLOGY AND AMERICAN INDIANS by Lee Hester

INVISIBLE MAN: THE RING OF GYGES by Clayton Morgareidge

IRRATIONALITY IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY: THE MORAL IMPLICATIONS OF SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIOR by Christine A. James

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JEET KUNE DO: LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM CLASSICAL KARATE by Bruce Lee

JOURNALISM: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON DISCOURSE/ PRAXIS by Martin O'Hagan

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KABBALISTIC COSMOLOGY AND ITS PARALLELS IN THE 'BIG BANG' OF MODERN PHYSICS by Adam McLean

A PHILOSOPHICAL KINDERGARTEN: HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND by Robert Hill, Alan Holloway, Justin Woods and Martin Cohen

KUBRICK: HOW ONE FILM-REVIEWS WITH A HAMMER by Donald MacGregor

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PHILOSOPHY AS A SERVICE INDUSTRY: THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE by Esa Saarinen and T.P. Uschanov

LOGAN'S RUN: SCIENCE FICTION AND POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Ken Sanes

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TOWARD A RADICAL METAPHYSICS by Richard Schain

ROGER SCRUTON 'THE AESTHETICS OF MUSIC' Review by James Buhler

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THE LAST WORD ON NATIONALISM by Anthony C. Grayling

ALFRED ROSENBERG — THE FORGOTTEN DISCIPLE by Joachim C. Fest

THE HOLY NATURE MANIFESTO by Mikhail Rusinov

NEUTRON STAR: STRANGE STAR OR STRANGE SCIENCE? by Wal Thornhill

METAPHYSICS OF THE NDI-IGBO by Cajethan Ndubuisi

THE NITROUS OXIDE PHILOSOPHER by Dmitri Tymoczko

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ONLINE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTEBOOK: TODAY'S NOTE by Geoffrey Klempner

GEORGE ORWELL AND 'THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE' by Steven Kreis

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PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON THE TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY JULY 1 1999Tony McWalter MP and Charles Clarke MP

PEACEFUL SLUMBER IN THE FORREST OF THE MIND by Michael Levy

PREDICTIONS FROM PHILOSOPHY: HOW PHILOSOPHERS COULD MAKE THEMSELVES USEFUL by Nick Bostrom

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THE ROLE OF EVOLUTION, TIME AND ORDER IN PIRSIG'S "METAPHYSICS OF QUALITY" by Anthony McWatt and eric Priezkalns, with responses by Robert M. Pirsig

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LOGICAL RUDENESS by Peter Suber

RUNNING: EXPRESSIONS OF TRUTH by Dr George Sheehan

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ON PROGRESS AND IRONY: WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ABANDONMENT OF HUMAN SACRIFICE by Carl Pfluger

SLUMDOG PHILOSOPHER, RICHDOG PHILOSOPHER by Raam Gokhale

SOLIPSISM: MESSAGE FROM A LONELY PLANET by Geoffrey Klempner

THE PHILOSOPHY OF STAR TREK by Scott Whitmore

STOICISM: MANUAL OF EPICTETUS BY ARRIAN translated by Sanderson Beck

SUBMARINE WARFARE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SOCIETY by Johan Ulloa

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRIPURA TANTRA by Gopinath Kaviraj

CAN PHILOSOPHY BE TAUGHT? by Geoffrey Klempner

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DEFENCE OF USURY by Jeremy Bentham

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OF VANITY by Michel de Montaigne

VOLCANOES: PETER KINGSLEY 'ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, MYSTERY AND MAGIC' Review by David Fideler

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PERSUASION IN HITLER, WAGNER AND NIETZSCHE by John S. Moore

UNRESTRICTED WARFARE by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui

THE HYPERLINKED METAPHYSICS OF THE WEB by David Weinberger

WHALES: THEIR EMERGING RIGHT TO LIFE by Anthony D'Amato and Sudhir K. Chopra

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EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL LIFE by Steven Ravett Brown

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THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI — GHOST DOG, MISHIMA, AND MODERNITY'S OTHER by Ryoko Otomo

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ZEN AND THE ART OF DIVEBOMBING OR THE DARK SIDE OF THE TAO by Kelley L. Ross

THE ZERO ONTOLOGY - DAVID PEARCE ON WHY ANYTHING EXISTS by Arthur Witherall




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