Archive for the 'Philosophy' Category

horrible moments in the history of philosophy

January 18th, 2008

time for an infrequent post categorised under Philosophy. Here is a link to a nicely written blog post about horrible moments in the history of philosophy http://drjon.typepad.com/jon_cogburns_blog/2007/11/horrible-moment.html. The part on Turing served as a reminder of the great man’s belatedly publicized accomplishments and subsequent shabby treatment by the British government.

New Bertrand Russell Wiki

May 31st, 2007

Have recently been working on setting up a wiki covering topics related to the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. RussellWiki, as it is aptly named, is now up and running, under the auspices of the Bertrand Russell research group at McMaster University. Go check it out at http://russell.mcmaster.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Bertrand Russell reference

February 6th, 2007

I just came across a welcome Betrand Russell reference in an introductory music book I have been reading: Introduction to Music.
The book gives a brief chapter-by-chapter overview of several periods of art and popular music in western culture. At the commencement of each chapter, a general list of important historical events of the era […]