Posted on January 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
There’s no easy way around Singer’s argument once you encounter it. That’s what makes it dangerous.
Posted on December 2, 2021 Leave a Comment
According to Grasshopper, the best life is a life devoted to playing games.
Posted on November 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
On one hand, Heidegger is arguably the most important figure in European philosophy in the twentieth century. On the other hand, he was for a time a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party.
Posted on September 15, 2021 2 Comments
If we can learn to learn from one another, the philosophy of the Americas has tremendous potential for syncretism and growth.
Posted on September 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
Building a syllabus, at its best, is also an act of love and a gift to those with whom it’s shared. Like a music mix, it’s constructed out of elements that I didn’t make myself but the assembly in uniquely my own.
Posted on September 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
Anglophone philosophy in the last half-century has slowly pulled its head out of its own proverbial ass and it has done so in no small part thanks to the contribution of these four remarkable women.
Posted on August 25, 2021 Leave a Comment
Nāgārjuna laid much of the philosophical groundwork for Mahāyāna Buddhism and was foundational to the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy.
Posted on August 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
Late April is an exciting time of year if you’re into philosophy and birthday cake. April 22 is the birthday of Immanuel Kant and April 26 is the birthday of Ludwig Wittgenstein, my own philosophical hero.
Posted on August 11, 2021 Leave a Comment
UNESCO has marked the third Thursday in November as World Philosophy Day but it might have been more apt to set it for April Fools’ Day.
Posted on August 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
Dominic Ongwen’s life was marred at an early stage by a stroke of staggeringly bad luck. Is he to blame for that bad luck?