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Philosophy Apps for iPhone

Josh May — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:06:14 +0000

I recently found some decent apps for philosophy on the iPhone. Here are some free ones:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (by SEP)
Ask Philosophers (AskPhil) (by Amherst College)
The Republic by Plato (by IndiaNIC, LLC)
The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle (by IndiaNIC, LLC)
Stanza (by Lexcycle)

Here are some non-free ones:

Philosophy Bites ($2.99; forgot about this one in the original post)
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy – by Simon Blackburn ($14.99)

The first one, obviously, is the one more likely to be frequently valuable to philosophers. I’m quite surprised I hadn’t previously heard that the SEP has an iPhone app! Click on the links to learn about the others (just cancel the iTunes pop-up if you just want to read about them in your browser).

Any others I’m missing?

Three Minute Philosophy

Josh May — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:09:20 +0000

These “Three Minute Philosophy” videos are pretty funny. The Descartes one is especially fun:

You can find more (like ones on Aristotle, Hume, and others) on YouTube.

Philosopher on Craig Ferguson

Josh May — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:41:28 +0000

The philosopher Jonathan Dancy was on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson:

This was largely due to his son’s wife (Claire Danes) talking about him when she appeared on the show.

What Do Philosophers Believe?

Josh May — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:12:48 +0000

The Economist covers the recent results of the PhilPapers survey of philosophers:

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/what-do-philosophers-believe

Not too bad of a summary.

Al Mele Video Interview

Josh May — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:59:55 +0000

Al Mele talks about free will:

Very cool! This is just part of the whole interview (the part where he talks about free will). You can go to the website to get the whole thing.

Zimbardo on Colbert

Josh May — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:57:31 +0000

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who ran the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, was on the Colbert Report last year. Best part:

Zimbardo: Obviously you learned well in Sunday school.

Colbert: I teach Sunday school, motherf#@ker!

Peer Review

Josh May — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:07:26 +0000

Funny:

(HT: Nadelhoffer)

Gopnik on Colbert Report

Josh May — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:30:28 +0000

Developmental Psychologist, Alison Gopnik (who has done a lot of work that has interesting philosophical implications) was on The Colbert Report recently promoting her new book, The Philosophical Baby:

Jonathan Dancy on Conan

Josh May — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:44:27 +0000

Okay, well it was Jonathan Dancy‘s son, Hugh (who is apparently an actor), on Conan O’Brien:

Intuition

Josh May — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:22:11 +0000

There’s a lot of talk about intuition in philosophy these days. Anyway, here’s a song about it by Feist.

“What gives, what helps the intuiton?”—indeed.