I will be giving a talk this spring about the question: "What has Jerusalem to do with Athens." As part of the talk, I will discuss the Academy in Athens. I make this part of my analysis of early …
Carnap and Quine
I was looking through some old things and found a research paper I had written in graduate school on the philosophers Carnap and Quine. It brought back many memories about how the analytic tradition …
Philosophy Out West: 2019
I began the Philosophy Out West speakers series in 2015. We will continue this spring with conversations on Christianity and Philosophy, Academic Skepticism, and Epistemology and Apologetics. This …
PHI 101
Back to teaching next week. I appreciate how ASU's catalog describes PHI 101: "explores issues that philosophers have traditionally considered, including morality, reality, and knowledge." …
Death of Ivan Illych and Christmas
I’m reading through “The Death of Ivan Illych” by Tolstoy and this seems like a perfect Christmas story. Just as with Scrooge, we are given a look at the hardness of the human heart and what suffering …
Dialogue: Intuition
What is intuition and how does it relate to reason? I talk about reason and common ground in my talk here. In the comments there is a discussion about how to define reason and distinguish it from …