http://www.philosophia.com.au Australian philosophical review Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:48:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Jason ReadThe person who is addressing you is, like all the rest of us, merely a particularstructural effect of this conjuncture, and effect that, like each and every one of usas a proper name. The theoretical conjuncture that dominates us has producedan Althusser-effect.—Louis Althusser, 1966 (2003: 17) 1. Philosophy ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=110 http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=109 Now I was being told that another deep aspect of nature was also unified with space and time -- the fact that there are fermions and bosons. My friends told me this, and the equations said the same thing. But neither friends nor equations told me what it meant. I ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=108 ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet -- the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=62 crambo @ Merriam-Webster (sort of) interregnum @ Wordsmith suffisance @ Worthless Word for the Day effrontery @ Dictionary.com http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=63 From Xinhua: Romanian archeologists have found the Capitol of Sarmizegetusa, a temple in the ancient Roman province of Dacia, Rompres news agency reported Thursday. "We were glad to confirm the suppositions we have been nourishing for 25 years, about the place where the Capitol lies, one of the ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=64 From the Wiltshire Times: ROMAN remains have been found at a golf club in west Wiltshire. Shards of pottery and roof tiles were found at Cumberwell Park Golf Club near Bradford on Avon during work to build three new holes on the course. A man out walking his dog found the objects after ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=65 I've been meaning to pass along that the report in the Sunday Times a while back suggesting that Greek and Latin A-Levels were on the way out was apparently erroneous (although the Times has not printed a retraction). By way of compensation, here's a little piece from the Fakenham and ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=66 We've already mentioned a couple of instances ... now another online magazine (Lifted) has a reviewish thing of the Odyssey ... E.V. Rieu's translation (!). I'll admit that Rieu's translation was probably what got me into Classics (I read through it when I was eleven or twelve ... couldn't figure ... http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=67 From 1st-4th November 2007 the University of Edinburgh will be holding the Fifth A.G. Leventis conference, The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations, hosted by the Leventis Professor, Jan Bremmer. The provisional programme and booking arrangements can be found at: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/FifthA.G.LeventisConference.htm http://www.philosophia.com.au/?p=68