Things are not always what they seem, but that’s the way to bet.
Mar 092023
Mar 082023
Heidegger was not a bad philosopher because he became a Nazi. But he may have become a Nazi because he was a bad philosopher.
Mar 072023
The East, the West, the classical and Christian, the medieval and modern, the peasantry, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, the 18th, 19th, 20th century — what intellectual malfeasance shelters under the definite article!
Mar 062023
The more you hope a story is true, the likelier it is to be false.
Mar 032023
A theory of mind must account for the existence of theories of mind.
Mar 022023
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not because it is subjective, but because it must be noticed.
Mar 012023
Unambiguous instances of humans overriding their biology are scarce, and suicide, the most drastic, commands respect, if only on that score.
Feb 282023
Of all avocations the grimmest must be politics. The one thing nobody seems to get out of it is fun.
Feb 272023
No one is consigned to the psychiatrists for participating in a mass delusion, however absurd.
Feb 242023
What drives the proverbial cycle of good times and hard times? In part weakness and strength, mostly idleness and occupation.