Month: July 2020

• July 20, 2020

  Pascal, Beauty, And Covid-19

  Pascal once wrote, “All of man’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” I’ve appreciated this quote for a while, but now I absolutely love it. Or rather what I love is how wonderful it is to sit quietly in a room. Alone. Many times daily. Sometimes throughout the entire day. It’s beautiful. Many have…
• July 17, 2020

  Confronting This Impossible Situation With Blood On Your Hands

  Sometimes you’re faced with an impossible situation and you don’t know what to think and there’s really no right thing to do. Wait, let’s back up. Because well before there’s the metacognitive awareness, “I see that this is an impossible situation,” you have to do your best to remember what it was like before. Back…
• July 15, 2020

  My Ari In The Air Podcast Interview: What We’ve Lost
• July 8, 2020

  Going Downstream From Materialism

  In philosophy of mind, materialism (also known as physicalism) is the view that certain neural processes are consciousness or generate consciousness. The basic idea is that everything (i.e., everything that exists) is physical or material, so consciousness must also be physical. Rather than advancing a critique of this view, I’d like, in this post, to…
• July 6, 2020

  Covid And Educational Bankruptcy

  I’m sure you’ve seen headlines like this from Business Insider: “One of the big three rating agencies sees college enrollment down as much as 20% for colleges this fall.” Behind the headlines can be discerned conflicts and uncertainties as well as opportunities. Will some students elect to take a gap year? Will college adjuncts, the…