October 7, 2019
Category: Philosophy As A Discipline
December 11, 2016
How can we think philosophically about disability?
The vast majority of conversations people have about disability concern our personal reactions to disability rather than engaging with the disabled themselves.
November 3, 2016
[PSA] Yelling is not an argument; insults are not evidence.
Yelling is not an argument; it is a form of violence.
October 10, 2016
How should we think about moral relativism?
Some cultures eat horse meat, others make children work, others have caste systems, while others publicly display their own sex acts. Are these just preferences or can they be evaluated from an objective standpoint?
March 10, 2016
Should philosophy be "in your face"?
People have tried to destroy philosophy. They have killed and exiled philosophers, they have banned books and ignored scholars, but philosophy is still here.
February 22, 2016
Where do I go from here? A blogger asks for help solving a blogging-related problem.
Has this blog really just been mine all along?
December 14, 2015
How did poetry reveal the limits of philosophy?
Despite its linguistic precision, despite its profound role in educating and motivating the imagination, poetry was the great blind spot of the twentieth-century philosophers.
November 9, 2015
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