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This post was edited by Skinned on Sep 6 2014 10:42am

Not directly political but I thought it was funny and maybe has political implications regarding human behavior:



Credit: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3259

This post was edited by Voyaging on Sep 6 2014 10:52am

Lol.

I like Camus' take. He's one of my favorite guys in philosophy...probably my favorite. It is weird, because most universities end their philosophy curriculum around the time of his death, as if nothing has happened since.

There's at least Zizek

I'm not a philosophy major but it was my understanding that modern analytical philosophy forms the core of what is taught in universities (Wittgenstein, Popper, Putnam, Kripke, etc.) Maybe I'm way off though.

My university generally has tracts related to legal and political philsophy (law, ethics, critical thinking, etc) or related to philosophy of mind and cognitive science, which is interesting because our psychology department uses the ecological perspective of James Gibson ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_psychology ) which I fundamentally disagree.

Here are some books the faculty wrote: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff/books.html Some cool stuff there, and you'll see by the titles the tone of the department. There are analytical classes and strong logicians there as well, but everything on there is based on Wittgenstein, Popper, and reactions to them or problems in their systems (if that is a correct word for that), which is why I was hinting off in my post....

And the lack of true philosophy being written (non-logic stuff anyway) probably has to do with the rise of cinema and the role of movie-maker as modern philosophers. Now that movies are being rendered stupid, repetitive, and unoriginal due to the need for profits (capitalism retarding the spirit and quality of culture) I don't know what is going to take its place.

We're getting a bit off topic lol, but just wanted to say there are still some masterful films being made, just usually not in the US (although there have been a few American masterpieces in the last decade).

See Werckmeister Harmonies for an example of a (semi-)modern masterpiece, I think you'd really like it

As for true philosophy being written, I'd say there's more than ever. A lot is logic, but lots of work in philosophy of mind is being done (the obvious name here being David Chalmers). Kripke's work in philosophy of language+metaphysics+other realms... Also a lot of transhumanist philosophy is increasingly relevant, like the work of Nick Bostrom and David Pearce, though perhaps you wouldn't call that "true philosophy".

This post was edited by Voyaging on Sep 6 2014 11:28am

I'll have to check it out. I've kind of gotten away from cinema in the past couple years. Rarely do I see a movie that I like anymore. There is always something that ruins it

I'll be sure to look into that movie though And there are some fun movies to watch, but most of them trick their audience into thinking they're grappling with great ideas instead of actually doing it. The new Batman movies are notorious for this.

Also, in regards to my last post, my university has a huge computer science program with people all over the world coming for it.

This post was edited by Skinned on Sep 6 2014 11:30am