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Anything’s Possible: Cartesian Epistemology Is Behind Conspiracy Thinking.
One day during the era of COVID-19 and Trump 1.0, my then-girlfriend, Kelly, and I hiked the Neahkahnie Mountain trail on the Oregon coast. We needed a…
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What a Beautiful Earth-Turning Tonight!
An introductory path into the theme of the Armchair Vertigo newsletter, namely truths we know but do not believe.
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Derrida on Islam and Western Democracy, a Book Review
On the very day he learned he had contracted pancreatic cancer, Jacques Derrida participated in a deeply personal discussion with Mustapha Chérif.
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For my students: "Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone," Nietzsche wrote.
On Nietzsche's essay "Schopenhauer as Educator"
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Rilke: "You must change your life." But wait, why?
Why is dissatisfaction assumed?
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The Italian Alps in High Resolution
Can you find the ant-sized hikers and their tiny shadows all in a line?
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Essays on the Scientific Revolution
Especially the significance of the Scientific Revolution for happiness studies. Never thought of that, didcha?
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On the Genealogy of Happiness
Happiness as good fortune, as virtue, and as pleasure; plus the origins of relativism [Premium post now free]
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Not, "Is there no free will," but, "What if there weren't? What would that be like?"
Scott Galloway called free will denial "a movement." I call it "armchair vertigo."
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Halfway Twice is Not Yet Once
When we were 13 years old, my best friend, Matt, introduced me to punk rock. The year was 1987...
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The Dangers of Credulity
On January 6th, we witnessed the extraordinary danger credulity poses to democracy.
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Pre-Galilean Ballistics Drawings
The full version of my essay which was excerpted earlier
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Two podcast hosts discuss my Nietzsche article
via Google Notebook LLM
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Happy Nietzsche's Birthday! Born 181 years ago—and died 125 years ago—yet we have still not fully faced the implications of his ideas.
Here's my essay on Nietzsche, his diet advice, and life hacks—originally published in Philosophy Now, Issue 93. New footnotes about THYMOS, resentment…
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