Thought experiment: There’s a very clever man-eating lion on the prowl, so clever that we might just as well accept that it will never be caught. We can take some precautions to minimise the likelihood that our child will be… Read More ›
A CARNAPIAN SOLUTION TO THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION PROBLEM IN ACADEMIA PREAMBLE: In my generic course outline, under the section entitled “Things It Doesn’t Pay to Think About”, entry #6 reads as follows: 6. Apparently it’s not okay to fuck a… Read More ›
I’ve made no secret that of the things I care least about, global warming and the minutes of last night’s city council meeting are pretty much in a dead heat. I say things like this not only because I mean… Read More ›
Philosophers are in the business of either drawing distinctions or collapsing them. A case of the latter is David Hume’s observation that, all this palaver to the contrary notwithstanding, causation just is correlation. A case of the former is the… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 