“There are not many of us doing vegetable philosophy, either professionally or casually.” – notes associate professor Karen L.F. Houle (from the Department of Philosophy at The University of Guelph, Canada) in a recent article for the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume IX, Issue 1/2, 2011. Her paper, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension […]
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Pertinent Instances of Irrationality
QUESTION: Where would you go to find “Pertinent Instances of Irrationality“? ANSWER: George Metanomski’s The Second Enlightenment.
Keeping in touch across SpaceTime
Imagine that you are called Bob (B), and that you have a loved one called Alice (A). You would both like to touch each other across SpaceTime. How might this happen (or have happened) (or will happen) or not? (With or without the use of a relativistic wormhole). Such a theme is presented, in the […]
On anything that explains everything
David Hume, in his essay called “The Sceptic”, talked about anything that explains everything: I have long entertained a suspicion, with regard to the decisions of philosophers upon all subjects, and found in myself a greater inclination to dispute, than assent to their conclusions. There is one mistake, to which they seem liable, almost without […]