At the Biology of Mind class blog, I’ve put up a post on Eric Schwitzgebel’s work on introspection. I’ve also participated in discussions of dualism and the female orgasm.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Is a four-hour work week possible?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 22, 2008
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I’m a writer. An amateur, but one serious enough to write a blog post somewhere between five and twenty times a week on average. Serious to have collected one rejection notice a piece for two different items of short fiction and a few rejection notices for a book-length nonfiction piece. Serious enough to apply to [...]
A gambler’s epistemology
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 19, 2008
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>>>This is a post from my second calendar year of blogging (i.e. the January after I started). I like it because it reminds me of what it’s like to be really, deeply perplexed by a philosophical issue. Nowadays, I’m used to thinking that I don’t know what to say about a philosophical issue, but I’m [...]
Ross Douthat on porn
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 18, 2008
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For whatever reason, Ross Douthat has spent a fair bit of time making the blogosphere scratch its head on the porn issue. He’s put up a blog post linking to various things he’s written on it, including an article for the /Atlantic/ proper. I takes a bit of work to figure out what his position [...]
Nozick’s libertarianism and capitalism
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 17, 2008
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In the first two lectures on political philosophy, we discussed redistribution of wealth from the point of view of Rawls’ very famous and rather extreme proposals, and the more moderate, consequentialism-ish counter-proposal I gave. I’ve also defended free markets in general, while saying labor laws are sometimes beneficial. Now I want to consider a much [...]