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Category Archives: New Lexicon
Re-thinking Rigor, version 2.0.1.2
An interesting overview at an education blog critiquing the amount of time spent spinning pedagogical PR rather than thinking through a sustainable PAIDEIA. What I want is for every American child, every British child, Canadian child, Irish child, Australian child, … Continue reading
The Most Practical Major?
[Philosophy] is also one of the most competitive disciplines. When I was a science editor I sometimes saw readers’ reports on colleagues’ philosophy manuscripts. There were often pages and pages of challenges to the authors’ arguments, concluding with a recommendation … Continue reading
Branding Logos
So everybody seems pretty familiar with logos these days. In fact, product branding has made some logos more recognizable to children than the faces of their grandparents. But I want to talk about the oldest of all logos… the ancient … Continue reading
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Getting One Over On Ourselves
“Heaven preserve you from questions of origin.” – Valéry (Notebooks, C. 21, p.275, 1938; as quoted by Derrida in Margins of Philosophy) “The essence of scientific wisdom… lies in being tentative about what one takes to be… necessary.” -Wilfred Sellars, “Is … Continue reading
The grammar of the digital humanities
I confess: I like grammar. I like grammar not because I like following rules (though I often get mistaken as a rule-follower by inattentive observers), but rather because I like searching for rules — and that’s really what grammar is … Continue reading
A New Lexicon Redux
What the word fails to say, circumstance mutely adds… The real meaning of a word is not in the dictionary; it is in the instant. Jose Ortega y Gasset, Concord & Liberty, p. 13 I got a lot of positive feedback … Continue reading
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A New Lexicon
[Philosophical problems] are, of course, not empirical problems; but they are solved through an insight into the workings of our language, and that in such a way that these workings are recognized – despite an urge to misunderstand them. The problems are … Continue reading