7 months ago
Thomas Nagel’s Bat and Ours
There is a bat in our bedroom. We don’t know how it got in, but bats can crawl through the narrowest of crevices and passageways, and our old house is …
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1 year ago
A Few Points of Philosophical Interest Learned by Watching Our Cats: Part II
If cats are conscious but not self-conscious—that is, if they do not split experience in two and constitute an inner self which stands at one remove from all other perceptions—they …
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1 year ago
A Few Points of Philosophical Interest Learned by Watching Our Cats: Part I
Above is our cat Oliver, in a photograph made by my wife Loret. Oliver is four years old. He takes to visitors, though he can be skittish, and they take …
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2 years ago
Fichte. Seriously.
In the English-speaking world Johann Gottlieb Fichte (17623-1814) is treated as what one might call a footnote philosopher, mentioned—if at all—only in connection with someone or something else. He is …
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2 years ago
It Is Not Humanity That Is Failing: A Manifesto
At some point we will have to admit that we have failed. We will not have averted catastrophic climate change. We will not have spread prosperity as far as it …
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