“How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read,” by Pierre Bayard

In which we learn how to talk about the titular book without having read it.

“Effective Teaching and Learning in Introductory Political Theory”, by Joel Kassiola

ABSTRACT There is no abstract for this paper. You can find the original article here, on JSTOR. Overview As one might…

“The Five Stages of Fascism”, by Robert Paxton

Robert Paxton provides strategies for identifying and analyzing fascist movements, and describes the process by which fascism comes to power in a country.

“Selections from the ‘Classified Sayings of Master Zhu’: On Reading and Reverential Attention”, by Zhu Xi and translated by Daniel K. Gardner

Zhu Xi lays out a process for effectively studying virtue.

Addendum to Commentary on “Extended Cognition and Functionalism,” by Mark Sprevak (2009)

An extended response to Sprevak’s arguments ad absurdem in “Extended Cognition and Functionalism.”

Article: “Extended Cognition and Functionalism,” by Mark Sprevak (2009)

In the course of arguing against functionalism, Mark Sprevak critiques both the Extended-Mind Thesis and some of its other critics.

“On Bullshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Harry Frankfurt asks, “What is bullshit, anyway?” Also, “What is truth?” but we all know that book proposal wouldn’t have flown except as a companion to the first one.

Article: “Technology and the Future of Persons”, by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013)

Lynne Rudder Baker asks under what circumstances (if any) external objects can be considered part of us in the same manner as an arm or brain.

“Cosmic Pessimism,” by Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker gives pessimism the aphorism treatment in a series of disconnected meditations and musings.