Occasionally I’m just going to post about random ideas that are buzzing around in the back of my head. I’ve got three of them going right now: One related to technology, one related to economics, and one–the one I’m going to post here–related to my old field, philosophy, in particular, metaphysics and the philosophy of [...]
I am–possibly–a failed academic. Or I am–perhaps–an academic who made a calm and considered decision to walk away. Or perhaps I felt I had to walk away from academia because I’d failed, or perhaps walking away was itself a failure.
I don’t know. I really don’t know the answer to this, over ten years later, and [...]
I was very happy with the the results of the national election last week, even as I was quite upset about some of the results of the California balloting (in particular, the passage of Proposition 8). Unsurprisingly, the right wing has lost little time about being nasty about our new President. More surprisingly, and more [...]
My parents got married this summer. Not because they’d only just decided to make such a commitment–they’ve been together over 35 years now–but because, for the first time in California, the law allowed them to. They didn’t want to wait to plan a ceremony–they’d been waiting for decades already–so I wasn’t able to be there [...]
