why we should

In part 1 or ‘Do it for the house' I discussed a narcissist who did really well out of a working bee or two, which he advertised as “doing it for the house". This improved the property before he sold the house, on the back of unpaid labour, other peoples' tools and skills. He just happened to own it when…

Reflective Equilibrium and Conceptual Naturalness can be found on my favourite read on the substack platform by J. N. Nielsen, but this is the way I discovered him, he has other sites on other platforms from earlier times. wordpress, tumblr, etc Anyways, he has been educated me on various [philosophy|history/\history|philosophy]&time issues as I read his essays. As I read Reflective Equilibrium…

So I was flicking through number 134 of Texte zur Kunst, an issue devoted to sculpture, and started with the article by Simon Baier 'A carrier bag theory of sculpture.' I was in a library moments before a meeting, so did not think much about it as I read what little I read of the article, so this is not…

There are works of art in which the primary reaction, at least on my part, is goodness how much effort went into this? Where did they find the time? Who paid for all this? Why did they bother? This is in contrast to people who wonder, “Where do they get their ideas from?” While the artistry may or may not…

In a recent reaction, I glossed over an incomplete thought I had in reading a mention of the expanding circle. I just nodded it away, yeah, Singer. But then as often happens, I woke up thinking about it the next morning, drove to work thinking about it. It festers and expands in my notice. In itself, it is a good…

Caso, Juan Manuel Rodríguez, and Ricardo Noguera Solano. “Biological and Cultural Evolution of Morality: The Delusion of Progress.” Revista de Filosofía Fundamental (2022): via academia.edu Web. 21 Aug. 2024. A reaction below to a paper that came my way. I am working my way through a to-do list of them. That opening “Life evolves; it does not progress.” “To evolve”…