Miscellanea
From philosophy football to quotable philosophers
Monty Python Philosophy Football Sketch
A classic skit from Monty Python:
Cakes, capitalism & happiness
Why have rising incomes not greatly increased happiness? A brief explication of one theory, drawing on the distinction between comfort goods such as watching TV, shopping or drinking, and creative activities such as baking, playing guitar or gardening (the latter making us more happy).
Jerry Cohen's impressions of famous philosophers
Jerry Cohen's hilarious impressions of philosophers past, from Isaiah Berlin to W.V. Quine
The PhilPapers survey of professional philosophers' opinions
The results of PhilPapers.org's 2009 survey of the philosophical views of 3,226 respondents, including 1,803 faculty members and other PhDs and 829 graduate students. Lists some interesting correlations, both between views in different fields and between philosophical opinions and the sex, nationality or age of respondents.
The Sydney Philosophy Disturbances
An account of the Sydney philosophy department's split into two faculties, one Left and one Right, in the charged political atmosphere of the sixties and seventies. Lengthy, but an insight into the academic politics of the times.
