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IntroductionIt’s time for my annual fitness post. This year’s topic will be injury prevention in the gym (without diluting the intensity of your training). This was a particularly bad year for me in terms of injuries so I had to find ways to do the best I could. Hopefully some of my experience will help […]
Read More Injury Prevention In the Gym without Giving Up Gains or IntensityIntroductionAround this time of year my news feed is infected with click-baity articles or facebook statuses about how New Year’s resolutions are stupid or bad or whatever and “I’m better than people who make NY resolutions because I recognize that every day, NAY! every second! is an opportunity to redefine myself for the better. So there, […]
Read More A Defense of New Year’s Resolutions (That THEY Don’t Want You to Know About)When people talk to me about studying philosophy, I’m usually met with similar questions. What’s the point of doing philosophy? When can you even use it? Here’s a lengthy paraphrase of what I sometimes say. You already do philosophy all time and it’s the single most important activity in your life. You just […]
Read More YOU are a Philosopher (Sometimes)Training Guide for Dogs Suppose you want a treat but your human is frantically trying to get his work done thus not paying attention to your usual manipulations. (Oh, did you think this was a guide for how to train dogs? No, no, no, silly human. It’s a training guide for dogs to train their […]
Read More Training Guide for DogsIntroduction and Two Theories of EmotionYou’ll often hear the term ‘repressed emotion’ bandied about in the self-help industrial complex. In this alt-world, if you have a mental or physical illness, you can bet your bottom dollar that it’s caused by a repressed emotion (usually from your childhood). The concept is often used as the cause and […]
Read More Repressed Emotions: What Are They Supposed to Be? Part 1IntroductionCan you write something about guns in the US of A without pissing off a large portion of your audience? Not likely. But let me try to propose a policy that has elements that both sides might endorse (excluding the most extreme ends of the spectrum).A little auto-biographyAs a Canadian born to pacifist parents, the […]
Read More Gun Control Policy in Public SpacesIntroductionExistentialism can be summarized in one phrase, “existence precedes essence.” But what does this mean? Pre-existentialism, philosophical systems presumed Man had an essence. To understand what that means consider a chair. Chairs don’t just randomly pop into existence…no sir! Before they are created someone or something has to have a concept of what a chair […]
Read More Doing What Feels Right and Sartre’s ExistentialismPreamble: I’ve been working on this paper for longer than I care to admit but I have to turn it in at some point. I’ve written about 4 or 5 different versions of it all with different solutions or non-solutions to the puzzle I present. Anyhow, a few notes: (A) For some reason the footnotes […]
Read More Cilantro, Moral Truth, and JustificationOk, I can’t take it any more. I’m supposed to be working on a paper but the recent flood of articles regarding Planned Parenthood and abortions are making me loco–but not for the reasons you might think. I’m not going argue for a position regarding abortion but I just want to point a few things […]
Read More Abortion, Animal Rights, and Moral ConsistencyI apologize in advance for the somewhat scattered nature of this post. I’m trying to work through some ideas. What I’m trying to figure out is whether certain cost problems in the US health care system can be solved using free market approaches or whether solutions require government intervention. The nature of the problems I’m looking […]
Read More Solving US Health Care Cost Problems: Free Market vs Government Policy. Part 1
Wrestling with Philosophy 