My last five columns explored philosophy’s purpose. The series was provoked, in part, by the claim of physicist Stephen Hawking that science has rendered philosophy obsolete as a truth-seeking method.
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This is the fifth and—I promise–last in a series of posts on philosophy’s purpose.
When I teach philosophy at Stevens, I prime the pump by asking, What is philosophy for?
This is the fourth in a series of posts on philosophy.
Last year, struggling to understand an especially dense philosophical paper, I was reminded of my youthful efforts to decode poets like Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens.
This is the third in a series of posts on philosophy.
It must irk philosophers that any idiot thinks he can do what they do.
This is the second in a series of posts on philosophy.
Dining last year with members of a philosophy salon in Manhattan, I met an eminent philosopher, whom I’ll call Harry.
I’ve been hobnobbing with philosophers more than usual lately. Over the last 18 months, I’ve attended several conferences with philosophical themes, eavesdropped on graduate seminars, interviewed prominent philosophers and joined a philosophy salon in New York City.
Two recent stories in Scientific American have me contemplating, once again, the terrible possibility that psychopharmacology hurts more people than it helps.
I was in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, January 20, and have some things to get off my chest about violence I witnessed.
Dear Mr. President:
Congratulations on your inauguration! Let me be honest: I supported Hillary Clinton, because the liberal media convinced me that you were too disrespectful of convention to be President.
Ever since I read that New York Times headline, “Trump Triumphs,” things have seemed surreal. The psychedelic visionary Terence McKenna keeps coming to mind.