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What is philosophy of science?
I just finished Plato’s Timaeus, which is often regarded as the first major philosophy of science. It used to be considered a much more important…
Apr 23
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Closing the dialectic
We hear a lot of talk today about the importance of openness, but hardly any about the importance of closedness. But closedness is part of the nature of…
Apr 19
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Dialectics: Nietzsche vs Socrates
It is well-known that Nietzsche hated Socrates—there is a whole chapter in Twilight of the Idols, one of Nietzsche’s books, about this, called “The…
Apr 14
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Eclipse thoughts
In thinking about the solar eclipse that happened yesterday, one question was on my mind: Why do we need glasses to look at the eclipse? We can glance…
Apr 9
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American Conspiracy: Octopus Murders
I watched the new Netflix documentary miniseries called American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. It seems to me that there is a lot of this kind of…
Apr 7
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David Foster Wallace, Marx, Nietzsche
There’s this ongoing, annoying, but perhaps inevitable thing going around where people are trying to synthesize Marx and Nietzsche; or to show how…
Apr 7
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Being, language, image, Plato, Buddhism
I think Western culture/philosophy/religion produces a kind of deep but narrow result—and so Western cultures have technical superiority (atom bombs and…
Apr 6
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Types of capitalism
I was thinking recently about how there are all these types of capitalism being bandied about in little books and articles over the last few years. They…
Apr 4
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Why do we love being spied on?
This article came out the other week about how Facebook is spying on us. That isn’t really that interesting—we’ve known that Facebook spies on us for…
Apr 3
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Hegel and Nietzsche
My favorite Nietzsche quote has always been “Only excess of strength is proof of strength.” I believe it’s from The Will to Power (a book-length…
Mar 31
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The secret of true dialectics
I was reading Plato’s dialogue called Philebus, which is one of his later dialogues; it covers the topic of pleasure’s role in a good human life, which…
Mar 30
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A brief tour through The Gay Science
I flipped through The Gay Science the other day and came across a few aphorisms, more or less at random; and I found myself fascinated with trying to…
Mar 30
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