Panpsychism

‘Ex nihilo nihil fit’-Parmenides of Elea My topic for this month is panpsychism. This is the concept that the mind or some corresponding entity is a universal aspect of reality, not just of humans and certain animals. This was the topic of my dissertation...

Offhand Remarks

‘You have funny looking knees’-My cousin’s friend Lee This month isn’t really a philosophy essay, but it does touch on an ethical subject. Many of the things we do in life have unexpected consequences. A commonly cited example is the concept of...

Book Review: How to Be Perfec

Here we’re confronting a condition I think of as Moral Exhaustion.Trying to do the right thing all the time is…a huge pain in the ass.-Michael SchurHow to Be Perfect This month I will be doing something a bit different. Most of my post will be a book...

Doing The Right Thing

 It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people whichis the nature of right and wrong.-Jeremy BenthamChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders,but they have never failed to imitate them.-James BaldwinPlay by the rules, but be...

Ethics and Aesthetics

What most people think of as a philosophical system is a collection of doctrines deliberately invented by an individual philosopher in the attempt to reduce the whole of his experience to private formulae. I do not believe that such things exist. What I find in the...