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Got curious about McLuhan, whose ideas I have only a very superficial conception of, via one of @melmcbride's Friendfeed posts. This seems like a useful resource page of links and extracts.

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Errol Morris interviews photography expert Hany Farid and Little Green Footballs proprietor Charles Johnson about the use of photo-manipulation tools in journalism and propaganda. Reproduces some incredible Heartfield images.

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"Now for the poet, he nothing affirmeth..."

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Montaigne's famous defense of Raymond Sebond, the proponent of natural theology, in which he lays out a profoundly, even shockingly skeptical view of human knowledge.

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In his early 20s, the great Scottish philosopher, David Hume, wrote this "letter to a physician" (unidentified, but probably Arbuthnot) giving an account of his melancholic symptoms and his efforts at self-treatment.

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John Patrick Diggins (a brilliant scholar) reviews Taylor's "A Secular Age" for the NYTBR. He is courteous and respectful but ultimately fairly negative on Taylor's apparent dependence on neo-Hegelian "dialectical fantasies."

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This (the clipped section) is a great quotation. I first saw it here: http://worldcat.org/oclc/68133035

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A short excerpt from Descartes's Meditation Three (Latin).

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The underlying argument behind the SCOTUS decision on ND's partial-birth abortion ban is that [i]women[/i] need to be protected from having abortions, according to this commentator, and this is a new argument (though long familiar to anti-abortion activis

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This dude pairs a randomly-selected Family Circus comic with a randomly-selected aphorism from Nietzsche. Via Habakkuk's Watchpost (watchpost.blogspot.com/2006/12/fun-on-internets.html), a great blog.

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I love this dialogue (written ca. 380 BCE). I think of it as one of the founding documents of the academic study of religion. I just put part of it in my profile.

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Quotes from Vico (1668-1744). The last one is worth pondering.

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Randomly stumbled across this. Looks fascinating.

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An archived essay from Johns Hopkins UP introducing Vico's conceptual framework for the human sciences.

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Brief historical introduction to existentialism.

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Undergrad philosophy conference in Oregon. The 11th annual conference is April 20-21, 2007; submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2007.

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A list of fallacies organized alphabetically. Most are drawn from logic, but some are rhetorical. Very cool.

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