Developing a New History of Philosophy
An immediate response to the title is: Do we need yet another history of philosophy? Anyone vaguely familiar with their local library’s selections and new arrivals will have seen half a dozen such...
View ArticleThe Time Problem in “Cosmology from Quantum Potential”
Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das recently published a paper in Physics Letters B, “Cosmology from Quantum Potential,” in which they discuss the reasonableness of a liquid quantum potential contra big...
View Article22nd Annual (2015) Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In...
Among all of the conferences that I have attended or presented at, Kent State’s Graduate Philosophy Conference was the most professionally done of the bunch. I think the reputation of this conference...
View Article22nd Annual (2015) Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In...
The paper I presented at Kent State University’s Graduate Philosophy Conference can be found by clicking here. The paper is a reworking of a paper I wrote during Jordi Cat’s philosophy of time seminar...
View ArticleQuo Vadis, Materialism? Nowhere, It Seems…
I mentor a few young philosophers; which basically means young readers of philosophy pester me for answers, and I annoy them with corrective questions. Occasionally, I do give them something like an...
View ArticleA Superficial Reflection on Nagel’s “Mind and Cosmos”
This post is going to be a sort of a review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, but also partially a review of John...
View ArticleDuration to Completion of the Great Books of the Western World
I get many search queries that hit my website, and loads of questions, pertaining to how long it takes to read the Great Books of the Western World (GBWW), edited by Mortimer Adler. Of course, there’s...
View ArticleReflection on a First-Year Professorship: An Experiment in Allowing Students...
This is the first of a number of reflections I hope to do on my first year as a professor of philosophy. As of right now, I am through the first semester. It’s been an interesting experience, to say...
View ArticleThe Value of Ayn Rand in an Introductory Philosophy Course
The discipline of philosophy is something to be held inviolate; the classroom likewise. One might be inclined to ask, what is the function of teaching provocative material to an introductory level...
View ArticleDistinguishing between Types of Science: Unmixing Metaphysics and Pragmatic...
I get questions regularly about the bizarre nature of contemporary physics. I am sure practicing physicists with PhDs get these more regularly than I, yet I occupy an interesting and rare position in...
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