philosophy
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Ethics for Exiles
Following from the previous post – “Word and Flesh” – a thought that has followed me at least since graduate school has made itself known once more. I don’t think I’m ready to develop the thought in full – it might require a book! – but I should at last set the thought down in… Continue reading
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Word and Flesh
In 1989, Wendell Berry delivered a commencement address at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. With the aim of saying “something useful about the problems and opportunities that lie ahead” of the graduates, he started with a quotation from As You Like It, when Orlando says, “I can no longer live by… Continue reading
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From the Archive: A Bizarrely Inexplicable Post
A mention of the work of Douglas Adams in The New York Times, this morning, has prompted me to go back to the archives of my earlier blog, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth, for a post from December 20, 2011. **** As long as I am acknowledging my intellectual debts, I should pay tribute to… Continue reading
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From the Archive: Confessions of a Former Objectivist, part three
This one was first posted to A Skeptic’s Creed on February 16, 2007. **** Confessions of a Former Objectivist, part three On second thought, it may be that the paper I wrote about Objectivism during my last semester in college is best left in obscurity. Part of the problem is that I just can’t help… Continue reading
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From the Archive: Confessions of a Former Objectivist, part one
This week I’m going to dig much deeper into the archive, back to a blog I maintained for a few years called A Skeptic’s Creed, of which the tag-line was “splashing around in the acid-bath of doubt.” This entry is from February 13, 2007. An interesting connection – or is it a near miss? –… Continue reading
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Philosophy in 2015
Dr. Leigh M. Johnson’s “Morbidity and Mortality Report” on the travails of Philosophy as a profession in 2014 has started me thinking about my own relationship with the field in which I was trained. I have often been pleased to point out that I have not worked in a philosophy department since 1998, following instead… Continue reading
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From the Archive: What Philosophers Do
Since I’m in the midst of mid-winter revels, of one kind and another, I’m still drawing from the archives of my other blog, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth. Today’s revived is from October 9, 2011. It takes up a question that will continue to occupy my mind as I develop this new blog: What should… Continue reading
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From the Archive: On Expertise
As I’m on holiday break, I’m relying on the archives of my other blog, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth, to keep things moving along with this new blog. I will resume the development of new posts soon. Today’s entry, from May 27, 2011, takes up a question that is still of concern to me, especially… Continue reading