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Battlestar Galactica as methodology

Filed under: ProfPTJ's Podcasts — ptj at 8:24 pm on Sunday, February 21, 2010

Here are my comments from the (in)famous Battlestar Galactica panel from ISA 2010 in New Orleans. The paper in question is still rather rough, but I’m happy with the overall shape it’s taking.

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Sociology of IR panel

Filed under: ProfPTJ's Podcasts — ptj at 8:19 pm on Sunday, February 21, 2010

My somewhat elliptical discussant comments from a panel entitled “What Language(s) Do You Speak? Knowledge, Networks and the Sociology of IR,” from the 2010 ISA conference in New Orleans.

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Two Philosophers Shoveling Snow

Filed under: ProfPTJ's Podcasts — ptj at 6:40 pm on Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Here is the live performance of my not-a-classic-of-philosophical-drama dialogue “Two Philosophers Shoveling Snow,” an earlier version of which was posted over at The Duck a few days ago. The attached file is the slides from which Benjamin Herborth and I read the dialogue during a roundtable on critical realism at the 2010 ISA annual meeting. I took the part of “Roy” the critical realist, and gave Benjamin the part of “Will” the pragmatist — and he started his subsequent presentation by announcing that he was not Will. Obviously I’m not Roy, either.

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