Tag: Filler

Adding to the dearth of content…

From the New Zealand Herald (and normally I would make a sarcastic comment about its quality of reporting, but here they are simply printing a news story from Reuters) on the Litveninko poisoning:

‘Looking tanned and dressed in a dapper pink shirt, Lugovoy said the Kremlin’s enemies and the Western press were portraying him as a “Russian James Bond” in a campaign to tarnish Russia’s image.’

Looking tanned and dapper? Oh, Journalism, how low have ye sunk? You can’t imagine a news report in 1944 going ‘Hitler, dressed to the nines in the latest lederhosen with a natty Swiss cap, said that ordering the extermination of the Jews was simply a necessary action to get the German economy onto an even footing.’

Actually, maybe I can.

06/01/2007

Contains Traces of Nuts – A Link

In lieu of an actual post I link you to ‘The Fundy Post’ for apt commentary on the attempt to legislate alternative medicines in New Zealand. If I had been going to post on the subject I would have written something like Mr. Litterick’s entry, just not as pointedly funny.(I have a sneaking suspicion that my meagre readership already reads ‘The Fundy Post’ and that this post is somewhat redundant.)Coming up soon – a summary of views on Testimonial Knowledge. I bet you can’t wait.

05/30/2007

Recent Reading

Yes, it’s all quiet on the Western Front. I’m currently reading up on three topics, one of which is directly thesis related whilst the other two are satisfying an academic interest. Of direct relation to the thesis is the (relatively) new field of Social Epistemology, which looks at knowledge not in relation to individuals but in relation to groups. This is very important to my topic on Conspiracy Theories because, at some point, I will have to write something on the notion that Conspiracy Theories can be group beliefs as well as individual beliefs. This all ties into questions of testimony as well, but my allergy-addled brain isn’t coping with higher thought functions this morning.

My other readings are on ‘forcing’ in epistemology (countering the radical skeptic in regards to the possibility of error in acquiring knowledge) and the use of intuitions in Philosophy. Both of which I am sure I will someday find a use for.

In other news: I now have two lilac-point Siamese. I’m obviously still allergic to cats and the two week acclimatisation is not even halfway over. Thus I sniffle and suffer and really don’t want to do anything else than vegetate at the moment. Thank god for weekends and trashy TV on DVD.

03/04/2007