Author: Andrew Taggart

• 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…
• July 2, 2020

  ‘That’s It; Your Body Goes In The Ground’

  I was speaking with a boyhood friend this morning, someone with whom I hadn’t spoken in earnest in over 20 years, about happiness. In passing, he noted that life is short and that we only have a finite length of time to live. And that’s it. When I was 18, another friend, who’d been raised…
• June 25, 2020

  We Need To Break The Spell: Against Secularism, Physicalism, & Humanism

  I just finished reading Bernardo Kastrup’s excellent book The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality (2019). The book is a critique of the physicalist ontology and a spirited defense of an idealist ontology that, as I see it, is essentially nondualist. In this post, I’d like to comment…