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I had to cancel class yesterday, at nearly the last minute. Symptoms from Ménière's came on, over a one-hour period, and I was unable to...

Faculty work is open-ended, and difficult to quantify. This creates a number of tensions in labor relations between faculty and administrati...

Let's say there were only the two of us there, or at least that only the two of us were witnesses to what happened. Anyone else would ha...

Descartes is bugging me. In the second meditation, he argues that because he is able to perceive and judge that he perceives wax, this demon...

I’m teaching Philosophy of Mind this semester. It’s odd that the philosophy department has a course called Philosophy of Mind. It’s throwing...

Every so often something overtakes me and I try to write poetry, or, more accurately, something like the following happens. This is from abo...

Consciousness is a funny thing. Late modern and postmodern theories have attempted to establish, variously, that consciousness is an insign...