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Can I Have a Napkin, Please?
Okay, two prefatory remarks about this video post. (1) I am a closeted super-huge-fan of musical theater. If I could go back and re-do all the important moments of my life– good or bad– I would re-do them in song. I often wish the world happened just the way it does in musical theater. I…
Read MoreThere Are No Stupid Questions
February 13, 2009
Leigh M. Johnson
Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching
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When I was an undergraduate, I remember one of my (English Lit) professors saying on the first day of class: “There is no such thing as a stupid question.” Obviously, this was a warm-and-fuzzy attempt to impart some measure of confidence to students, to encourage us to voice our questions and concerns without reservation, and…
Read MoreNo Good Deed Goes Unpunished
And, in this case, the “good deed” was my pedagogical experiment with (now, regular practice of) blogging in the classroom. I’ve been featured on The Dean’s Blog: Celebrating Teaching and Learning at my college, in a story hyperbolically entitled “Philosophy in the 21st Century.” I am, of course, really honored by the recognition… so, what’s…
Read MoreSpeaking of Philosophy
The picture to the left there is from my dissertation defense party, which took place at a much-beloved dive bar in Philadelphia (Oscar’s Tavern) where I have imbibed almost equal amounts of libations and philosophical conversation. As a matter of fact, this setting (and settings very much like it) is about my favorite mise-en-scène for…
Read MoreNominations for Secretary of Culture?
February 9, 2009
Leigh M. Johnson
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Last night at the 51st Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy President Neil Portnow extended a long-overdue appeal to President Obama when he said: “Our finest national treasure is our culture in the arts, so it’s time that we acknowledged that fact with the creation of the Cabinet position of Secretary of the Arts.” How right…
Read MoreThe Muselmann
Perhaps one of the most ethically challenging, and truly heartwrenching, figures of contemporary (by which I mean, post-WWII) philosophy is that of the Muselmann. The word Muselmann literally means “Muslim” (“one who submits to God”), but is used to refer to prisoners of Nazi concentration camps who had become so destitute and dehumanized as to…
Read MoreArt Imitating Whose Life?
February 6, 2009
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture/Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive
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About a month ago, I started watching the television show “24” from its beginning. I was immediately hooked, as I wrote in my initial post on the subject (“24” Is Like Television Crack), and this week I just began Season 5. My general impression is that the quality of the show declined after the first…
Read MoreBrother, Can You Spare a Pancreas?
Despite the questionable and declining quality of my internal parts, I am registered as an organ donor. Every few years, when I go to renew my drivers license, this decision seems like a no-brainer. Now, I’ll admit that it may be the case that my organ-altruism is really motivated by self-interest, since I am a…
Read MoreIf It Looks Like a Science, Walks Like a Science, and Quacks Like a Science…
… then it must be a duck. Beginning today, my Philosophy of Race class will be learning about the first theorists of eugenics, an early 20th C. pseudo-science that (in the words of one of its founders and leading proponents, Sir Francis Galton) studied “all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the…
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