Sophie Podolski : le pays où tout est permis/The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

Le livre est tout le problème

The search into new ways of writing is confronted with certain obstacles, the foremost of which is that of the book and its conventions inherited from 536 years of existence. Yet, literature is by in large independent of the particular medium that is the book, as reminds us the age-old oral tradition or the contemporary research of the Oulipo. The incursion of the computer into literature has t...

Nouvelles écritures de théâtre - Le texte est tout le problème

The term “new writings” refers globally to new forms of story telling. In the same way that the invention of cinema disrupted the writing of literature in both its themes and aesthetics, so the arrival of new technologies (cd-rom and the Internet) is bound to influence books and films by its own unique narrative modes. At the height of the breaches induced by reciprocal influences, where does t...

If God's Existence Is Unprovable, Then Is Everything Permitted? Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Morality

This essay is about how four deeply important Kantian ideas can significantly illuminate some essentially intertwined issues in philosophical theology, philosophical logic, the metaphysics of agency, and above all, morality. These deeply important Kantian ideas are: (1) Kant’s argument for the impossibility of the Ontological Argument, (2) Kant’s first “postulate of pure practical reason,” immo...

Everything Is Permitted? People Intuitively Judge Immorality as Representative of Atheists

Scientific research yields inconsistent and contradictory evidence relating religion to moral judgments and outcomes, yet most people on earth nonetheless view belief in God (or gods) as central to morality, and many view atheists with suspicion and scorn. To evaluate intuitions regarding a causal link between religion and morality, this paper tested intuitive moral judgments of atheists and ot...

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