New Heidegger Film

Check out the trailer to a new Heidegger film here. Looks much more entertaining than The Ister, though who doesn't want to watch a boat go slowly down a river while listening to Bernard Stiegler talk about technology.

Postgrad Don'ts

As we have a new bunch of postgrads starting I figured that I should share some invaluable knowledge from the mighty Spiros and his followers:

http://philosophersanon.blogspot.com/2010/03/incoming-student-visit-donts.html

I think that all of us have done at least one of the don'ts on the extensive list!

Enjoy

Heidegger on the web

Thanks for a great reading group yesterday, nice turn out and excellent discussions.

Here are some useful links for Heidegger that I have been using:

A list of his publications/lectures:

http://think.hyperjeff.net/Heidegger

A lot of Heidegger stuff here:

http://www.beyng.com/

In particular a useful but not complete list of Greek words used in Being and Time:

http://www.beyng.com/grk/hgrkwrds.html

Enjoy!

-Nikolai

Journal rankings

If anyone is like me and thinking to publish but wanting to know what the "good" philosophy journals are, I just discovered that the ARC and ERA has its own ranking of pretty much every journal ever. These have then be nicely organised for philosophy by the AAP.

You can find the excel sheet here. It is the file labeled: Rankings workbook

-Nikolai

Reading the impossible?

Today is the first session of the Heidegger Reading Group. To start off nice and gentle into the world of Heidegger we will be watching an interview with Hubert Dreyfus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1qhz0

An oldie but a goodie. If you can't make it to today's session (8th of March) then you can easily catch up online.

Is your philosophical theory bad-ass?

Here's an interesting link that rates philosophical views on whether or not they are bad-ass or wussy. She uses it to endorse her own dietary restrictions against eating cute things, called acutetarian.

Can anyone think of other bad-ass or wussy views? Personally, I would put metaphysical idealism as a somewhat wussy view because often what motivates it are epistemic worries, e.g., a metaphysical reading of Kant's transcendental idealism. Though I guess I have to concede that when idealist bite the bullet and admit that their view can lead to solipsism then that makes them somewhat bad-ass, but it's a forced bad-assness.

Welcome the LTU philosophy blog

Greetings and welcome to the blog and discussion space for the postgraduate students studying philosophy of La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Updates will include papers from the fortnightly postgrad colloquium, ongoing discussions taking place among members and drunken rants after long nights in the pub.

Topics are wide and varying but our university does have one project focussing on the divide between analytic and continental philosophy.

So welcome and please enjoy our philosophical ramblings.

-Nikolai