Experimental Philosophy

Is actually becoming quite popular in major departments. A NYT article is here.

Continental Philosophy and Robert C. Solomon

I've just been invited to chair an "octavian session" for a memorial conference UT is having for Bob Solomon. Our session will be an informal discussion with a few former students and colleagues focused on "continental philosophy and Bob." In preparation, I'm going to be reading around a couple of books he wrote on the subject and thought I'd use this forum as a means to formulate some ideas and questions for discussion.

In case you're interested, the two books are Continental Philosophy since 1750: The Rise and Fall of the Self and The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy.

The DIR Model

John emailed a pdf article to start the discussion. More background information can be found here.

Welcome

I know we all remember Murphy's Irish Pub on Wells Street very well. How many beers and how many arguments over Aristotle and Heidegger did we have? What better venue for our discussions? This blog can serve as our virtual trip down memory lane and might be a better medium than an email chain for posting comments to what we're reading.