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(This one’s for my philosophers.) The traveler decided to take a break halfway to the summit. He realized with some alarm that his big gulping breaths couldn’t quite catch enough air. His lungs seemed to grasp for atmosphere in the same way his frozen fingertips had struggled for purchase on the rime-crusted handholds onto this…
I always warn my intro students that reading philosophy is not like reading anything else in college. In other classes, you can approach textbooks as repositories as facts and explanations, so we allow them to be practical, but boring. You can approach literature and art as fonts of heightened aesthetic awareness, which means engaging with…
I’m a mindfulness meditation novice. It’s strange to admit that I’ve been living full time with a brain for more than 30 years, and even used it to get a PhD, yet have only just begun to read the manual. My practice is pretty modest — at least five times every week (weekends optional), watching…
Given two metaphysical claims, we can prove that causation is a creature of the mind, not a feature of the world in itself.