Tag: Film
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The Philosophy Rapture
by Robert Gressis _____ Assume there are about 20,000 professional philosophers in the USA. Imagine that the bottom 19,000 of them were raptured, leaving only the top 1,000 philosophers.[1] What would happen to philosophy? I don’t believe much of anything would happen to philosophy. Indeed, I bet that if you looked just at the top…
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Medium, Message, and Effect
by David Ottlinger There is a moment in Marvel’s recent Doctor Strange that stood out to me in the theater and has stayed with me ever since. The titular doctor has by now suffered an accident which has left his hands seriously debilitated, abruptly ending his career as a hot-shot surgeon. Now he is desperately…