Month: February 2011

  • Morality in Europe Today

    “Morality in Europe today,” wrote Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil, “is herd animal morality.” On April 22, 2010, there took place an extraordinary creative event in Dusseldorf, Germany – at the KIT (Kunst im Tunnel) art space – called “Morality in Europe Today” (Zeitgenössische Moralvorstellung in Europe). The event was curated and organized by Gertrud…

  • Questioning Steven Hawking’s Scientific Discourse, by Marc Silver and Simon Schaffer

    Alan Shapiro: Most of this text is an interview-conversation between Professor Marc Silver of the University of Modena and Professor Simon Schaffer of Cambridge University that took place in Cambridge, UK in November 1995. It was originally published in Marc Silver’s book Arguing the Case: Language and Play in Argumentation (Chicago: Adams Press, 1996). The decision to…