In this extensive interview with Stephen Preskill, we cover much ground. We kick off the discussion Preskill’s latest book Education in black and white, about Myles Horton, a life-changing teacher activist whose work at Highlander Folk School influenced civil rights movement. Preskill discerns three major themes: anti-racism, dialogue Horton’s exemplary life. then move on to who could be consid...

hegel’s interpretation of sophocles’ antigone is surely one of the best we can find in literature or philosophy. in his book “phenomenology of spirit”, hegel goes through insightful interpretations of antigone and analyzes this work based on his own system of philosophy. hegel is one of the few systematic philosophers who made a universal body of philosophy which is supposed to overwhelm all hu...

In this article two bawdy passages are compared. In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Athenian and Spartan negotiators, driven to a state of desperation by their women’s sex-strike, map out their respective sexo-territorial demands on the sexy body of the personified Reconciliation. In Shakespeare’s The comedy of errors, again, Dromio of Syracuse is trying to escape from the rotund kitchen maid Nell, w...

En este texto de presentación del número especial “Filosofía la participación política”, coeditado con Moira Pérez y Blas Radi, mapeo algunos los temas problemas que motivaron convocatoria a trabajos. primera sección presento dos grandes modelos política en contextos democráticos, tesis fenómenos desdemocratizantes presente se ven facilitados por un cierto modo entenderla. segunda propongo una ...

Active joints Hypermobile robots: • Koryu-I and Koryu-II (Hirose, 1993) • Snake 2 (Klaassen and Paap, 1999) • Soryu (Takayama and Hirose, 2000) • Millibot Train (Brown et al., 2002) • Moira (Osuka & Kitajima, 2003) • Pipeline Explorer (Schempf et al., 2003) • Omnis family (Granosik et al., 2005) • MAKRO plus (Streich & Adria, 2004) • KOHGA (Kamegawa et al., 2004) • JL-I (Zhang et al., 2006) • W...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Edison's invention of the electric lamp, one of many heralded accomplishments that brought him lasting fame. For much of life Edison enjoyed a popular reputation as a laboratory genius who personified the spirit of scientific discovery. Was he really a scientist, or only an inventor? His participation in the Draper Expedition to the solar eclipse of 1878...