Tag: philosophy

• August 31, 2014

  Self-deception: A threat to philosophizing

  Self-deception–what is it? It seems to be rather like lying to oneself, but how does one do that? You can lie to others, but it beggars the comprehension to fathom how one could pull off the trick of lying to oneself. This may be why we say that self-deception is like lying to oneself. Deceiving oneself is not…
• June 30, 2014

  Philosophical Portraiture: Courage and Nobility

  About a month ago, Aleksandra completed a philosophical portrait of a woman who is seeking to live the life of a modern mystic (below). In her work on philosophical portraiture, the claim Aleksandra wants to make is that she is not rendering the subject in a too literal form of mimesis as if the photograph of…
• March 25, 2014

  Philosophy in the Popular Imagination

  The March/April 2014 issue of Philosophy Now, a magazine of philosophical ideas, is out. My contribution, ‘Philosophy in the Popular Imagination,’ can be read online here.  
• December 30, 2013

  Skyping as living discourse

  All of my philosophical conversations are held over Skype, and my philosophical friends (formerly called conversation partners) and I are the better for it. The claim that ‘we are the better for it’ is counterintuitive, yet it turns out to be true. The object of these posts will be to establish both why this is…
• November 27, 2013

  ‘First words of the morning…’

  Words that came to me during morning meditation moments before a philosophical conversation recently: * First words of the morning Second sounds after roosters’ calls Third in line from the wind.