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After rereading my last post on racial profiling and doing some thinking I realized that the issue of racial profiling in the context of airport security is a much more complex issue to which there is probably no clear correct answer. No matter what position we take, we are going to have to […]
Read More Airport Security and Racial Profiling Part 2Updayyt Oh! My poor blog, how I have neglected thee! This time it was not out of pure laziness; I’ve actually been working my butt off. First order of bi’nis. My semester at ASU: Man! I will start by saying this. That was a lot more difficult than I expected. I did not […]
Read More Update and New Year’s ResolutionIf found this post in my “drafts” page from when I first started this blog. I guess I’d forgotten to press “publish”. Anyway, given the recent changes in airport security measures it seems serendipitous that I found it now… Wednesday January 27 2010 First of all, I obviously wasn’t able to comply with my new schedule. […]
Read More Airport Security and Racial ProfilingOk, what I’m about to do may turn out to be a very poor decision but at this point I don’t have much to lose. Here’s the situation. I have one term paper left and for some reason I just cannot make any progress. I’m so confused by now that I can’t tell if the […]
Read More Stuck/Quine/Epistemology NatualizedUppdayt:What’s up friends…I apologize for the increasing duration of time between entries. I’m in the heart of term paper writing season and it’s hard enough just to get my reading and writing done. I’ve put work on hold until the semester’s over so I can dedicate myself to the work that will hopefully move me […]
Read More Update and T. Burge vs J. Campbell: The Limits of Vision ScienceUpddayt Ok, it’s crunch time for me. Semester’s end is in sight which means 1 thing: term papers. Honestly, I’m kind of freaking out. Guess I just need to divide everything into manageable tasks. Wait, that would make too much sense. I should do what most pop psychology/self-help books say. I should just […]
Read More Nutrition Rant: Simple vs Complex CarbsWell, you’d think by now I’d know better than to start writing a blog entry at 3:15am on a Monday…but I know that the 3 to 5 people that actually read my blog are wondering why it’s been over a week since my last post…Upddayt So, I did kind of an interesting party on […]
Read More Update and Introduction to Disjunctivism/McDowellA little update before we get into the philosophy…. Actually, I lied. There’s no update here cuz, every week pretty much follows the same pattern: going to class, fantasizing about what I’m going to eat on my “cheat” day, studying, more fantasizing about cheat day, more studying, going to the gym, entertaining […]
Read More Update and Tyler Burge/Vision Science Primer.Hello Friends,Today I’m going to wrap up the overview of Carnap, and in future posts I will go into more detail. On Tuesday I have to give a presentation on his paper “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology” and I’ll be using you guys as a practice audience. I know! You can hardly wait! Before I begin, […]
Read More Carnap Part 3 and My Blog’s Identity CrisisOK, I’ve seriously got to socialize with other humans, I’m starting to get cabin fever. Oh, and what the crap am I doing at 3 am on a Friday night, drinking wine by myself and writing about R. Carnap? In the previous post I introduced R. Carnap, his overarching Enlightenment objectives, the forces confronting his […]
Read More Carnap Part 2
Wrestling with Philosophy 