James Franklin, “Corrupting the Youth: A history of philosophy in Australia”:http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/contents.html (Sydney: Macleay Press, 2003), 465pp. ★★★ (3 stars) This lively and opinionated history of philosophy in Australia is a good read, but lacks overall structure. This book has more of a personal intellectual story to it than most, for me. In late 2004 I [...]
Today I’ve posted the frontmatter and introduction of my PhD thesis on role-playing videogames, which now has “its own page here.”:http:/benhourigan.com/phd-thesis I’m really hoping to get some feedback on this, especially from gamers. Some reasons why you should read the thesis as I serialise it, so you can give me comments: * It’s the only [...]
More like a leaking reactor than a liberal arts faculty – Miranda Devine – www.smh.com.au Readers of Miranda Devine’s piece likening Sydney University’s Faculty of Arts to a “leaking nuclear reactor” may wonder whether its indoctrination of students with leftist propaganda and postmodernist nonsense is an isolated phenomenon. The answer is no. For the curious, [...]
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