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5 Reasons Why I Haven’t Updated My Blog
In the spirit of my good friends over at ZEDS Comic Communications, here are the top five reasons why I haven’t updated this blog in a while: 5. Have had to spend all my free time killing the fruit...
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Election Prognostication: 2013 Calgary Municipal Election
It’s municipal election day in Alberta! This afternoon I tweeted out some of the races I’ll be watching in Calgary and around the province, and who I would be voting for if I could cast my ballot in...
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Resolution
We’re one week into 2014—how many of us have kept up our new year’s resolutions? You might dismiss the very idea of new year’s resolutions as futile at best — since we will inevitably break them; or...
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A New Beginning
Back in July, I posted that I would soon be bringing more discussions of philosophy to my blog. I never did do that. But funnily enough, this blog is about to get a whole lot more philosophy-centric....
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Reading Nagel’s “Mind and Cosmos”
Thomas Nagel is a very well-known philosopher, famous for his books Mortal Questions, The View from Nowhere, and his much-anthologized and paper “What is it like to be a bat?” But he created a...
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We Regret the Delay
My apologies for the delay in my (I am sure much anticipated) series of posts on Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos; as is so often the case, life has intervened and re-arranged my priorities significantly....
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On Two Kinds of Pragmatism
I have just begun reading Cheryl Misak‘s The American Pragmatists. So far it is a great book, mixing the history of philosophy with philosophical argument. In the Introduction, Misak distinguishes...
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Donna Kennedy-Glans Asks to Rejoin PC Caucus
In disappointing political news, ex-PC Calgary-Varsity MLA turned-Independent Donna Kennedy-Glans today announced that she has formally requested to be re-admitted to the PC caucus. This is very...
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Really Hard Problems?
In philosophy, the so-called “Hard Problem” is the problem of saying how it is that consciousness exists in the material world. Roughly, it is the problem of how phenomenal experience or “qualia” can...
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Some Professional Thoughts
There is certainly a lot going on now in academic philosophy, and this is being reflected in the philosophy blogosphere and other online venues. I won’t explain what’s going on, because if you’re...
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Let a Thousand Rankings and Non-Rankings Bloom
Academic philosophy is abuzz with the release of the 2014 Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), the somewhat-respected, somewhat-controversial but nonetheless much-used reputational rankings of graduate...
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On Finding a Philosophical Tribe
One of the major themes of my time away from academic philosophy was searching for like-minded people, those with a similar temperament, background, inclinations, and interests. A ‘tribe’, perhaps. I...
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5 Reasons Why I Haven’t Updated My Blog
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Networking for Introverted Writers
I’m an introvert. Though introversion/extroversion is more of a continuum than a binary, there are definitely differences between the two tendencies. The easiest way to sum it up is like this:...
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Canadian Pragmatism?
Back in May and June I was at the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, where I attended an excellent symposium, organized by Susan Dieleman, on “The Possibility of a Canadian...
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