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How Widow’s Bay Supports a Mystic Epistemology
Nathan Eckstrand is an editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the...
philosophybits: “Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be…
philosophybits: “Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”...
“The desire to be seen as clever often prevents us from becoming so.”
“The desire to be seen as clever often prevents us from becoming so.” - François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
Before Godot, Beckett wrote a study of Proust and the redemptive force of art. He spent the next few decades abandoning that faith
Before Godot, Beckett wrote a study of Proust and the redemptive force of art. He spent the next few decades...
The Amazonian river dolphin is 10 million years old and has pink skin. To the indigenous people, they are thoroughly wicked creatures
The Amazonian river dolphin is 10 million years old and has pink skin. To the indigenous people, they are thoroughly...
Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: “You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”
Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your...
philosophybits: “An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot… it will…
philosophybits: “An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot… it will march on the horizon of...
Offloading to AI Means Not Doing Philosophy: on the importance of exploring the space of ideas
When I write philosophy, my task is not merely to generate the most persuasive argument for some target claim. Rather,...