http://www.gadflymagazine.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/from-the-editor/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/revolutionizing-art/ Tell me about your background. How did you get into philosophy? I began as a mathematician, and I got bored with doing mathematics. I thought I wouldn’t do any creative work in it. My tutor suggested that I do history of science, so I did this in my third year at Cambridge, which I had to do to finish my residence requirement for the degree. While I was doing history of science, I got interested in philosophy of science. I then went to graduate school in philosophy without having taken any philosophy classes, which was nearly disastrous. But I survived, and I worked in philosophy of science for  the first part of my career. But I’ve done lots of other kinds of philosophy at various stages along the way.]]> http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/making-small-talk-with-philip-kitcher/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/what-can-philosophy-say-about-art/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/xenakis/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/the-lapse-of-history/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/you%e2%80%99re-precisely-my-cup-of-tea/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/our-parents-ourselves/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/on-love/ http://www.gadflymagazine.com/2010/04/a-philosophical-framework-for-understanding-finnegans-wake/