“Making distinctions” is “the method of philosophy,” so you must forgive me for complaining about this. I am awash in ethics debates this semester, and…
Generosity Is Not Justice
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Do We Experience Reality?
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Do the election results make you think that some people have lost touch with reality? If it helps, many philosophers think no one has ever made…
Experimental Philosophy, Old and New Modern philosophy begins, in many ways, with what was known as “experimental philosophy” — the name given to the work…
Perception as Synthesis?
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While checking some audio-books-on-CD, to make sure I was returning all the right discs to the library, I noticed something odd. The slip covers/pages/whatever that…
Decisions Are Not Choices, or Are They?
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The words “decision” and “choice” seem to be pretty much synonymous in English, as do their verbal counterparts “decide” and “choose.” However, they strike me…
Three Ways of Understanding the Distinction I find it helpful to understand the difference between Analytic and Continental philosophy in three different ways, all of…
Nicki Minaj and Boethius
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In his Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius defines eternal beings as any one who “possesses the whole fulness of unending life at once.” That is, a…