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» Hard-to-Believe! High School Student Researchers?
I am always humbled to know that I have had a philosophical career that could only have been born in an atmosphere like the one at Waxahachie High School. While I was never one of the computer science and research kids, Doc Hastings was really great at including folks like…
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Speak the Truth & Shame the Devil!
Calling lies “lies” and theft “theft” and violence “violence,” loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately and aggressively reframing the status quo as an outrage, whether…
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The Book of Life
A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing addressed in the article is how getting an education no…
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New Domain
After two years of mulling it over, I have decided that Reason & Existenz Blog should have a domain that reflects me as the author. I have had a special devotion to Karl Jaspers who was the teacher of my mentor Richard Owsley. In the two years since I started…
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The Matter of Anti-Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci criticizes Lawrence Krauss and the current habit of physicists who speak despairingly of philosophy. Very much worth the read. I give you here a quote he pulls from Einstein in defense of philosophizing… I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well…
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Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”
A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book compels us to ask. Philosophers became insignificant when philosophy became…
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American Self-Making: More of the Long Con
The Long Con is the sting we pull on ourselves, where we become our own mark which might be why we are able to get others to play along: the self-con generates profound belief by others because we are so trapped in our own pseudo-authenticity. That is, con = confidence:…
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Ancient Peoples
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A group of ancient history enthusiasts blogging about people and artefacts from all over the ancient… See on ancientpeoples.tumblr.com
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The Most Deadly Drug: Alcohol
In 2009, David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist who served as chair of Britains Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD, published a paper in a medical journal that offered a provocative thesis: horseback riding, he wrote, was more dangerous than taking ecstasy. Examining the two activities across a range of…
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I’ve met Jack Caputo a number of times. Great guy. I highly recommend watching this interview.
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Emotions Vocabulary Chart
Hardly exhaustive, but certainly handy. Sheet-for-Emotions-791×1024.jpg (791×1024).
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A Boon of Dandelions 4
Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that any person can cheat whatever aspect of life is the…
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