Previous Installments: #3: Philosophical Reflections On Love And Picture-Perfect Experiences. #2: The Cartesian Corollary. #1: Captions (To The Cartoons We Live)–In Defense of Captions & A Curriculum Vitae. Arthur Danto wrote a very interesting book, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace–whose title he’d most respectfully borrowed from a Muriel Spark novel, The Prime of Miss Jean … [continue reading]

Previous Installments of Captions: #2: The Cartesian Corollary. #1: Captions (To The Cartoons We Live)–In Defense of Captions & A Curriculum Vitae. I met Annette when I was sixteen in a summer house on the Danish coast.  She was 20. The summer I finished high school I went to Denmark to work on a farm.  … [continue reading]

May cut into strips and insert in next recipe for deep-fried life* New roofs and new trees are a new sky. New sky renews the heart. New actions renew the mind. Together they are a renaissance. To look straight ahead is as simple as putting on a mask. The road to hell may be paved … [continue reading]

Previous Installments of Captions: #1: Captions (To The Cartoons We Live)–In Defense of Captions & A Curriculum Vitae. Should you want to think about a queen this day or that – I might suggest Queen Rina Cristina is the one for you. The one you want to think about, that is. This is the story … [continue reading]

1. In Defense of Captions Starting two weeks from today, on Wednesday, 12 June 2019, Against Professional Philosophy will republish the second installment–and then in subsequent weeks, the later installments–of a series (hereby) collectively entitled “Captions.” They are so-entitled because they have been taken from a self-published collection called “Captions To The Cartoons We Live,” … [continue reading]

Introduction THICK: Navigating the Great Reality Sandwich with William James, is the first volume of a trio including vol. 2, The Work of Emotion, and vol. 3, Coincidensity, or The Pacioli Principle. The term ‘thick’ was used by both William James and his brother Henry to describe the world they lived in and tried to … [continue reading]