Why does philosophy continue?
Why does philosophy “continue” when it can never seem to achieve final resolution of its problems? I’ve found that Heidegger offers the most compelling account for why philosophy continually returns […]
Heidegger the neo-Aristotelian
Heidegger’s philosophy is often maligned as mystical or obfuscating. This is because of the great generality of the terms with which he is working, e.g., “being”, “world”, etc. But these […]
The Mind-Body Problem
Is it like this? — The “I” of speech and thinking exists only in the rhetorical or social “space of reasons” (in Wilfrid Sellars’ phrase) between empirical bodies. Thus “I” […]
Naturalism
Bas van Fraassen notes how there has been a rehabilitation of metaphysics in analytic philosophy of science in recent years. This is peculiar because analytic philosophy since Russell and Wittgenstein […]
What exactly is in the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. "Obamacare"?
When Republicans talk about repealing and replacing the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, what exactly are they talking about? Since the Obama administration has not done a great job […]
Heidegger and the question of "being"
What is the radical or root point on which Heidegger’s philosophical relevance turns? It seems to me this: The history of Western philosophy, science, and technology, rooted in Greek thinking, […]
Steven Fuller: Is liberal humanism compatible with Darwinian naturalism?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m interested in this debate as a strictly philosophical observer, not as a theologist, humanist, scientist, or neo-Darwinist. And I genuinely entertain that the outcome of […]
