VI. FINITISM – PART ONE In his Third Meditation, Rene Descartes offered a unique version of Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. It goes like this. Everything we experience we experience as not going on forever. Even if… Read More ›
Descartes
THE WORLD SINCE 1363
Whenever you’re in the moment – as distinct from what? outside of it? – it’s often difficult – no, make that impossible – to see it for what, if anything, it really means. But a moment takes its meaning from… Read More ›
A CARTESIAN MEDITATION
For twelve summers, until this one, I’ve spent the lion’s share of April to September in a village overlooking the Amalfi Coast. If the borders reopen by next April, I’ll be able to carry on as before. But if not… Read More ›
THE RECURSIVITY OF SELF-DOUBT
If I retired now – which not long ago, at sixty-eight, people would have thought was well overdue – how would my life change? I might have to tighten my belt a little, but probably by only one notch. I’d… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 