Over 21,000 Visits to Dead Philosophers Society

ShareOur humble online journal has attracted more than 21,000 visitors since its May 2009 launch.  Our daily visits increased by more than 20% in 2010 over 2009.  A Happy 2011 to all our thousands of visitors.  We’ll see a lot more of each other in the new year. Kinga and Richard

Wittgenstein on Twitter??

ShareWell, not exactly. A philosophy student at King’s College is tweeting Wittgenstein’s life in 500 tweets over the course of 6 months.  Not serious but very entertaining.  Follow Wittgenstein as he strolls quickly through his life in 140-word segments here.

Jeremy Bentham Project

ShareI found this interesting article* in the New York Times.  The University College London has been transcribing Enlightenment Philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s papers for over 50 years.  Now the editors of the project have made it possible for anyone to help transcribe these papers. They have set up a wiki where anyone can sign up and start [...]

Recommended Histories of Western Philosophy

ShareFor DPS members that could use some background in philosophy a good general history of philosophy can be very useful. A Law and Philosophy professor at the University of Chicago asked other academic philosophers last June for their recommendations on reliable, hopefully single-volume histories of Western Philosophy.  Here are the recommendations with a comment on [...]

Bioethics Center at Holy Apostles (article from the Catholic Transcript)

ShareCardinal Francis Arinze, retired prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, walks on the campus of Holy Apostles College and Seminary on Oct. 11, the first day of a three-day visit during which he delivered a bioethics lecture. To his right is faculty member Father Dominic Anaeto, who, like the Cardinal, is [...]