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Hey y’all, I thought I’d do my best to lure in the non-philosophy types in an attempt to help you get your Descartes on. I’m doing a course on 17th Century philosophy and the first guy we’re studying is Descartes. A couple little facts on the fah-zhah of modern philosophy: 1. He was primarily interested […]
Read More Descartes and the Origins of "The Matrix" and "Inception"Texas. When this state is mentioned few people have neutral impressions. For people that were born here I’m sure they imagine positive things like friendly people, bbq’s, wholesome farm living, and sweet, sweet baby Jesus. For those of us that grew up far from this mystical land we generally imagine negative things such […]
Read More Ramblings From "Texas, Yeah Texas" to CarnapI feel like an entry is overdue but I don’t feel like doing a bunch of research for part 3 of the vaccine entries so instead I’ll do a little rambling about things that have been on my mind. As an aside, one reason I haven’t written is that I learned a very […]
Read More School: The End of the BeginningThe Vaccine Debates Part 2: With Whom Is the Debate? Intro As I’ve been looking more into the vaccination “debate” (I’m using quotes because amongst scientists and physicians there is no debate) I’ve discovered a wealth of literature. Because I am far from an expert in biochemistry I will not discuss the individual […]
Read More The Vaccine Debate Part 2: With Whom is the Debate and Should We Listen?Preamble Because this blog post is likely to attract new readers to my blog, before I get into the meat of the debate I feel some preamble is in order. Facebook is a wonderful thing. It allows us to reconnect and stay in contact with friends to a degree that old skool letter writing […]
Read More The Vaccine Debate Part 1: The Legal Aspect of the Feb. 22 RulingI just finished watching “Waiting for Superman” and decided I’d write a couple of my thoughts. My first thought was “how did I ever survive growing up in the ghettos of Dunbar?” (note for my international readers, that’s a middle-class neighbourhood in Vancouver. It’s a joke you see… because it’s not a bad […]
Read More Thoughts on "Waiting for Superman"I love being wrong. Well, maybe I should qualify that. I love being wrong when my original beliefs that were pessimistic about humanity turn out to be wrong. I also like finding out I’m wrong about factual beliefs because then I have the opportunity to correct them…but that’s tangential to what I want […]
Read More The Egyptian RevolutionAfter 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. […]
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Wrestling with Philosophy 