THINKING FOR A LIVING: A PHILOSOPHER’S NOTEBOOK (SECOND SERIES, INSTALLMENT 11) PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS IN THE SECOND SERIES #10: The crisis in higher education: what is to be done? #9: Philosophy and pseudonymy. #8: A philosophy of the future is already here and now. #7: You are identical to your life, for better or worse. #6: … [continue reading]

Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is delivered online in (occasionally discontinuous) weekly installments, month by month. Its aim is to inspire critical, reflective, synoptic thinking and discussion about contemporary issues–in short, public philosophizing in the broadest possible, everyday sense. Every installment contains (1) excerpts from one or more articles, or one or more complete articles, … [continue reading]

THINKING FOR A LIVING: A PHILOSOPHER’S NOTEBOOK (SECOND SERIES, INSTALLMENT 10) PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS IN THE SECOND SERIES #9: Philosophy and pseudonymy. #8: A philosophy of the future is already here and now. #7: You are identical to your life, for better or worse. #6: Was Socrates an anarchist? #5: Conceptual analysis from a non-conceptualist point … [continue reading]

THINKING FOR A LIVING: A PHILOSOPHER’S NOTEBOOK (SECOND SERIES, INSTALLMENT 9) PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS IN THE SECOND SERIES #8: A philosophy of the future is already here and now. #7: You are identical to your life, for better or worse. #6: Was Socrates an anarchist? #5: Conceptual analysis from a non-conceptualist point of view. #4: Further … [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]

THINKING FOR A LIVING: A PHILOSOPHER’S NOTEBOOK (SECOND SERIES, INSTALLMENT 8) PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS IN THE SECOND SERIES #7: You are identical to your life, for better or worse. #6: Was Socrates an anarchist? #5: Conceptual analysis from a non-conceptualist point of view. #4: Further implications of non-conceptualism: sometimes, hell is other species. #3: Implications of … [continue reading]

Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is delivered online in (occasionally discontinuous) weekly installments, month by month. Its aim is to inspire critical, reflective, synoptic thinking and discussion about contemporary issues–in short, public philosophizing in the broadest possible, everyday sense. Every installment contains (1) excerpts from one or more articles, or one or more complete articles, … [continue reading]

I.  Introduction by Z Hazel Barnes was an American philosopher, the first translator of Sartre’s L’être et le néant, aka Being and Nothingness, into English, and the author of seven original books in Existentialist philosophy, including The Literature of Possibility: A Study in Humanistic Existentialism (1959) and An Existentialist Ethics (1967). In The Literature of … [continue reading]

I.  Introduction by Z Hazel Barnes was an American philosopher, the first translator of Sartre’s L’être et le néant, aka Being and Nothingness, into English, and the author of seven original books in Existentialist philosophy, including The Literature of Possibility: A Study in Humanistic Existentialism (1959) and An Existentialist Ethics (1967). In The Literature of … [continue reading]

The Omnibus Edition contains the first nineteen installments of THINKING FOR A LIVING, revised and collected into a single volume, as a downloadable .pdf for universal free sharing– PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #19: The incoherence and impossibility of personal immortality. #18: A new argument against capital punishment. #17: Fear, denial, and loathing in the philosophy of mind. … [continue reading]