Last time, I alluded, in a footnote, to an “elsewhere” wherein William Blake clarifies his mind/body dualism position. I have since been cadged by the masses into both clarifying myself and citing my sources. This quote comes from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate IV (which I linked to in my previous post, before […]
Alright, perhaps it is not yet an official holiday (is it?), but November 28th is in fact the anniversary of the death of this remarkable British poet-artist. It has been far too long since I added a meaningful post here; I have been working on a number of new things which have simply not allowed […]
When I first read the opening from Hobbes’ Leviathan as an undergraduate, I laughed. I laughed heartily. There was something clearly, and quaintly, absurd about his simple (though perhaps vaguely Rube-Goldberg-esque) chain of mechanistic causal events which for him became the workings of the universe. From Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter 1: Of Sense: The cause […]
Having now crossed the introductory threshold into Rorty’s work, a few general notions have struck me. The first is that it seems to me that Rorty, despite having a varied set of philosophical positions as a youth (assuming his autobiography is correct) and during his early philosophical career, held a remarkably stable philosophical position from […]
In my attempt to learn a bit more from some “post”-analyitic philosophers, I’ve decided to begin by revisiting Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature ([amazonify]0691020167::text::::sold here[/amazonify]). I rather regret going back to this text before having had direct experience with the work of Heidegger in particular, but I am also displeased that I […]
(If you came from facebook, click on the “view original post” link to see animations and formatting, the article’s much prettier that way. If you were invited, it’s because I thought you might enjoy a little joyful reminder of the pragmatism you once studied. peace.) No doubt that one of the most salient sources of […]
So much for getting back into the habit of “blogging”. So much, also, for the promises of new reviews, thoughts, comments, and readings. I have not, of late, had quite the slew of time for which I had hoped, and that which I have been afforded was spent in ways previously unanticipated. What I have […]
I’ve decided that a couple of things that I’ve recently read and heard deserve a good review. I eventually hope to put up somewhat in-depth reviews of Anthony T. Kronman’s book Education’s End, an actual review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Experiments in Ethics, and The Dead Science’s latest album Villainaire. If I get enough time […]
I’ve finished preparing my “summary” of Kwame Anthony Appiah‘s [amazonify]0674026098::text::::Experiments in Ethics[/amazonify]. I ended up deviating a bit too much to call my work a real summary, but I think many of the points will make for useful discussion. A lot of material has been intentionally left out, particularly after the situational examples illustrated, because […]
I’ve begun constructing a brief summary of Kwame Anthony Appiah‘s [amazonify]0674026098::text::::Experiments in Ethics[/amazonify] for next week’s philosophy club meeting. I intend to focus on three main concepts, beginning with the assumption of virtue ethics, moving through the challenges of situationist ethics, and ultimately applying a hybrid of those two concerns to the situations provided by […]