Pop Goes Philosophy

Cultural Meanings in America Make Benefit Glorious Bank Accounts of Creationists

[7.May.08] :. Is Ben Stein taking a page from Michael Moore? No, from Borat is more like it.

Rock Hits Wall

[3.Mar.08] :. Does a conservative obsession with its past threaten the originality and imagination of today's rock music? Pink Floyd's The Wall casts a long shadow on the genre.

Lead Us Not Into Speculation, Nor Excessive Computation

[15.Jan.08] :. A prominent philosopher argues that you, me, and everyone you know may be an artificial computer-simulation of a person.

Don’t Keep Your Philosophy Under Your (Mr.) Hat

[14.Nov.07] :. The point of philosophy going pop is not to exalt the ivory tower and herd people inside; it’s to give philosophers a chance to leave.

My Philosophy, My Vertigo

[5.Sep.07] :. Are the workings of the human mind and heart forever beyond the reach of science to understand? Two philosophers find the question - and opposed answers - in Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Choose

[10.Jul.07] :. Stoics say freedom is an illusion. That's why they have no choice but to think deeply about the Grateful Dead.

High-Minded Bullshit

[8.May.07] :. Philosophy itself is often regarded as part and parcel with the bullshit of popular culture. But it is philosophers who been trying to determine exactly what bullshit is and how it works its magic.

The Meaning (wink, wink) of Life

[9.Apr.07] :. Welcome to Pop Goes Philosophy by various authors with Open Court Publishing; where philosophers find deep meaning in the depths, and at least a tiny ray of reflection in the shallows, of all that is pop culture.