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Jackson asked me what my ethical position is, in relation to the practice of consuming the flesh of non-human animals. I realized that it wa...

I have a prevailing dissatisfaction with Western philosophy: its obsession with words. In a basic way, philosophy is how we grapple with mea...

Today I submitted an article to an actual, honest-to-Pete peer-reviewed academic journal, something I haven't done in nearly a decade, f...

I've spent some time this morning looking back over notes I wrote this summer on phenomenology and embodiment, in a typescript and in a ...

Towards the end of summer I started writing what I thought was going to be an article to submit to the journal of the Romanian Society for P...

Yesterday I spent the day at the CFA Fall Kick-Off, where we learned of plans to protect faculty rights through contract bargaining and poli...

Yesterday was Debra Messing Day at the House About Town. That's because yesterday was Debra Messing's birthday. Mine too. I got doze...

Now that the debt deal has passed, promising more restrictive domestic spending and not much economic hope , it's time for the good news...

Phenomenological accounts of pain invariably regard pain as abnormal and aberrant. Perhaps my own life experience, of nearly constant physic...

I'm back to Shaun Gallagher's book How the Body Shapes the Mind . He seems to be doing what Michel Henry forbids, namely, taking clu...

I finished reading Michel Henry's Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body . The conclusion very unhelpfully develops a theological posi...

I've been poring over Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body , Michel Henry's weird, insinuating, slantways critique of the phenom...

Regular readers of this feature, and some people who just know me, and a few people whom I've grabbed at random and told about it, know ...

Dire Straits were, of course, a seminal post-punk, roots-revival band, at least in the first phase of their history. Their first album was...

As I've been thinking about how big my body is, and especially about the phenomenon of feeling myself to be taller than normal, I've...

I had an interesting, brief conversation with one of the proprietors of the horse trail ride outfit we patronized in Sonoma County yesterday...

Husserl's lectures on passive synthesis (which is what everybody calls them) were actually entitled Lectures on Transcendental Logic. Wh...

Here's an initial description of the experience of my own body feeling taller to me. The other day, walking home through downtown Turl...

Bill Readings makes what I think is the right argument regarding the de-legitimation of higher education in The University in Ruins . Previo...

The last year I spent in Pittsburgh I was in the habit of listening to Harry Shearer's weird weekly radio program, Le Show , every Sun...