Posts tagged “philosophy”
I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)
A Last Meal
I am increasingly convinced that a tremendous amount of yin and yang is important to a successful marriage. My wife and I have dramatically different opinions about dining, for example: She lives to eat. I eat to live. If you were to give each of us an hour to decide what we wanted for a
The Offseason
In which I mourn the ending of another college football season
Not Usually Like This
On empathy
Dangerous Mistakes
Winning is an all the time thing.
Minds, Brains, and Science
Does John Searle, in his book Minds, Brains, and Science, succeed in explaining how mental phenomena can be nothing over and above neural phenomena and yet be caused by neural activity?
Build Cathedral
I forgot that the reason you get “paid” to do “jobs” is because it’s not something you’d leap up out of bed in the morning raring to do, without the carrot of filthy lucre leading you on … “Real work” for me is something you just do as a consequence of being who you are
Meditations on First Philosophy
This is a philosophy paper I wrote in my sophomore year at the University of Florida.