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In the spirit of answering my own questions from last weeks Kierkegaard discussion I noticed this interesting article on the …
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I just finished rereading Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard. I read it for a philosophy course in college and returned to it at …
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Every once in a while I notice a story about metrology, or the science of measurement, that reminds me how many of our concepts about …
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A note from a few months back when I was reading Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein. I’m posting it as a …
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It’s been ten years since Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris stormed Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, and killed …
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Is Twitter or any kind of technology killing poetry? That was the argument I listened to yesterday afternoon at a local Meetup group. I …
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I went to a funeral for my neighbor, Mary, on Friday. I estimate there were 80 people present. As I listened to the eulogy I was struck …
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I remember wistfully back in the 1980s listening to neoconservatives, like Jeane Kirkpatrick, argue that any comparisons between the …
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Is there such a thing as an immoral work of art? I attended a panel on this topic last weekend at Diversicon and have been thinking …
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I noticed a couple of reports over the last two weeks about the Morgan Stanley report by a 15-year-old intern about social media use …
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