February 2012
14 posts
Love and Death - Todd May →
All machine and no ghost? →
The more we look at the brain, the less it looks like a device for creating consciousness. Perhaps philosophers will never be able to solve the mystery.
Who Was Charles Dickens? →
Spring Poems - The Paris Review →
Kevin Prufer, On Sentimentality & Complexity →
Podcast: The Tragedy of Life - Philosophy Now →
Vacancy in the Park - Wallace Stevens
March … Someone has walked across the snow, Someone looking for he knows not what. It is like a boat that has pulled away From a shore at night and disappeared. It is like a guitar left on a table By a woman, who has forgotten it. It is like the feeling of a man Come back to see a certain house. The four winds blow through the rustic arbor, Under its mattresses of vines.
Philosophy Podcasts | The University of Chicago →
How doctors choose to die →
When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment. An American doctor explains why the best death can be the least medicated – and the art of dying peacefully, at home.
A Requiem to an Age of Brilliant Polish Poetry →
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)
The Art of Living →
A free Stanford course explores the most timeless existential questions.
Your Guide to Literary Tumblrs →
The New World of William Carlos Williams →