Western Philosophy

The Ancient Origins of Consciousness by Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt review – how the brain created experience

Edit The Guardian 09 Jun 2016

An evolutionary history shows how consciousness is key to human survival ... Eleven hundred years later, by which time, at least in western philosophy, minds and consciousness had become indissolubly linked to the brain, Descartes famously believed he had solved the problem by separating mind/soul from body as two separate worlds, interacting through a portal in the brain’s pineal gland ... No longer ... This has always seemed to me improbable ... ....

New Physics Beyond The Higgs?

Edit National Public Radio 08 Jun 2016

i ... Luis Davilla/Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption Luis Davilla/Getty Images ... Luis Davilla/Getty Images ... This kind of fundamental physics has a very noble heritage, as it traces its origins to the beginnings of Western philosophy and even beyond — to questions related to our origins ... Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist — and a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College ... ....

A Harvard philosophy professor on why you shouldn’t love yourself as you are

Edit The Independent 06 Jun 2016

... Can Teach Us About the Good Life, argues against the popular Western philosophy that loving yourself will lead to success....

The Greatest Philosopher You've Never Heard Of

Edit National Public Radio 31 May 2016

When most of us talk about philosophy — the hard-core, name-dropping, theory-quoting kind — we're talking about a particular lineage that traces back to the Hellenistic Greeks ... Taking that position, however, misses how closely the history of Western philosophy is tied to the monotheistic religions it grew along with ... For Western philosophy, this kind of question usually hinges around debates over the mind-body problem....

England vs Sri Lanka: Special talent Alastair Cook a model of consistency in reaching 10,000-Test ...

Edit The Independent 30 May 2016

Not for him the need to dominate by heaving for the boundary ... “Know thyself” may be a touchstone of western philosophy but it is still rare among English teenagers ... Read more ....

The interpreter of maladies

Edit Indian Express 29 May 2016

Author Shyam Bhat ... In school, he’d loved humanities a little more than science, which led him to study philosophy ... Western philosophy, as compared to the eastern one, is very primitive ... Bhat’s study of both the schools led him to construct his own psychotherapeutic method called the “integral self therapy”, which combines the practice of meditation, Vedanta philosophy along with existential therapies such as yoga, ayurveda ... ....

Philosophy for progress

Edit The Hindu 27 May 2016

Vijay Tankha, head of the philosophy department at Delhi University’s St ... How would you explain the discipline of philosophy to someone who doesn’t know much about it?. A standard way of looking at it is that philosophy is a discipline which looks at other disciplines ... Broadly divided into Indian and Western philosophy, the course covers thinkers from ancient to modern times....

In love with books — the other side of men in khaki

Edit Indian Express 24 May 2016

From Sherlock Holmes to history of western philosophy, the library has books from several genres including law and order, management, international terrorism, photography, spiritual, short stories and Marathi literature ... From Sherlock Holmes to history of western philosophy, the library has books from several genres such as law and order, ......

Personal expression flourishes at ‘philosophy cafes’

Edit The Japan News 22 May 2016

They were at a philosophy cafe organized by Kazunori Yamamoto, a 28-year-old company employee who studied philosophy at university ... Kayoko Ikeda, 67, who translated into Japanese “Sophie’s World,” the long-selling book about the history of Western philosophy, said, “You’ll acquire the skills to survive the era at philosophy cafes, where you can exchange opinions that transcend one’s status in society.”....

Ancient Athens is great value and affluent in all the right ways

Edit The National 19 May 2016

Why Athens?. The "birthplace of western civilisation", meaning primarily western philosophy and democracy, is far from a dry, dusty, academic destination. Modern-day Greeks are still awake and alive to debate and discussion in a way that so many others are not ... My first taxi driver argued firmly against the country's current prime minister, backing up his case with various statistics, trends and references to Aristotle ... Find your feet....

48 and Done. What a Run. Kumar Kangayappan leads his last commencement (University of Wisconsin - Green Bay)

Edit Public Technologies 18 May 2016

(Source. University of Wisconsin - Green Bay). UW-Green Bay faculty economist and Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, Kumar Kangayappan, participated in his final commencement ceremony Saturday, May 14. He will be retiring after a 48-year career with the University ... Prof ... Dr ... His research interests include economic development, poverty, macroeconomic theory and policy in developing countries, India, and Eastern and Western philosophy....

Thinking Anew – A true longing for goodness

Edit The Irish Times 14 May 2016

Laughter is our salvation when God is dead. Pinned in a corner by a prophet of self-obsession, competitiveness, criticism, gadgetry, bonuses, perks and boastfulness; there is rarely such an overwhelming sense of hopelessness ... We have far too many encounters like these ... Creation ... Just as we can describe western philosophy as a series of footnotes to Plato and Aristotle, wellness is a series of footnotes to the great spiritual teachers ... ....

Don DeLillo's latest is an ambitious novel of opposites – but can its halves be reconciled?

Edit New Statesman 14 May 2016

Zero K can't resist reaching for Beckettian heights while remaining rooted in the banal. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... But his influence is everywhere ... Beckett was apparently “classless, or outside class, as he himself would prefer to be” ... He is all language ... ... a bleak waste in which a pair of monologuers “rehearse again and again the great themes of Western philosophy” ... ....

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Eastern vs. Western Philosophy

Eastern Vs Western Philosophy