Edouard Machery doesn’t believe that thought experiments have any place in philosophy. That’s about the hottest hot take you can make in philosophy. The ground of philosophy is positively littered with thought experiments. Some of those are thousands of years old and others are quite recent. Machery does have the credentials to make the claim….
I’m about three weeks removed from having covid. It wasn’t a severe case, but I felt terrible. My symptoms were congestion, cough, fever, body aches, and fatigue. The doctor warned me that the cough and fatigue may continue for a while after I got better. And the doctor was right, especially about the fatigue. I…
Today is my birthday. This got me thinking about the surprising lack of birthday songs, especially good birthday songs. Everyone knows “Happy Birthday”. It’s the reigning king and probably won’t be unseated anytime in our lives, but the line of succession dries up pretty quickly after that. Everyone has a birthday, and most people celebrate…
I read a story on NBCConnecticut.com entitled “Democratic-Backed Connecticut Bill Would Ban ‘Latinx’ Term“. The thing that caught my eye was that the Democrats were introducing the bill. Recently, Arkansas adopted a measure that bans ‘Latinx’ from government documents, but that was an anti-woke move by the Republicans. This is different. A group of five…
Let’s get this out of the way at the top: I think Breath of the Wild is a good game; maybe even a great game depending on what day you ask me. But I don’t think it’s a good Zelda game. At times, BotW feels like an open-world game with a coating of Zelda slathered…
Why are people always asking whether or not God exists? I’m tired of it. It is an unanswerable question. If there were empirical evidence, the evidenced entity would not be God, at least not in any recognizable sense. That’s why faith is central to religious belief. The funny thing is, the question of God’s existence is not important…
Most quotes from famous people about writing describe it as a grueling, joyless experience. I don’t like those quotes because I fear that they discourage people from trying to write themselves. I also find them somewhat annoying- if writing is so awful, why are these people doing it? There is one that does speak to…
Chocolate candy is better frozen. It doesn’t matter what kind of chocolate bar it is. It could be straight chocolate or have other ingredients, like Snickers. It’s always better frozen. Orange is the worst color for candy. Now, I’m not talking about the packaging. I mean the candy itself. If there’s an orange option, it…
There are lots of things that I don’t understand. In this post, I’m thinking about the everyday, mundane things that I don’t understand. I’m not talking about things like genetic engineering. That is something I don’t understand, but it is also something that I never encounter and have no reason to understand. These are things…
Women complain all the time that their clothes rarely come with pockets. I’ve always found it baffling that they don’t come with pockets. I mean if women want pockets in their clothes, there’s a demand. It seems like someone could make a fortune supplying that demand. So, my question is simple: Is there an actual…
