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Last time I heard back from a journal about a submitted paper, it was the Journal of Academic Ethics  asking me to revise and resubmit my pa...

I’ve been on two bike rides today. The first was on an errand: we went to the pet store to buy some anti-anxiety drops for Arthu...

 Lauren knit this object. What is this object? Why and how does it appear as this object? Phenomenologically, two things are g...

My loveliest made kick-ass Russian food on Friday: mushroom, potato, and ground beef peroshki (the ground beef is local, grass fed - HAH!), ...

I figured out what I want to write this summer. Last year I did a ton of stuff on the phenomenological concept of normal , in part respondin...

I'm jut getting into my summer philosophy reading list, on the broad themes of orientation and the "normal." In November, a co...

For as long as I know, the California Faculty Association has bought time from the CSU administration, and used that time to allow faculty t...

Each of the last several years, my Loveliest and I have gone to a conference at the end of May in Canada. It's part of the Congress of H...

Here's how I ended up spending 24 hours in Emanuel hospital. Tuesday morning, after Lauren drove off to work the day in Modesto, I sta...

This morning the LA Times site offered me this: " State's swelling deficit will bring painful cuts. Where to start? " This i...

The last three years, I've had a great time reading and writing during the summer. I think I've learned a lot, and developed some in...

It's finally getting close to the end of this wretched semester and academic year. Some nice things happen at the end of a semester, and...

Last year, CFA bought 6 units of my workload, 3 for being lecturer rep, and 3 for being a faculty rights rep. At the end of the year, I told...

I'm reading an article by Lewis Lapham in the May Harper's . Lapham used to be the magazine's formidable editor in chief. Under ...

I'm reading Merleau-Ponty's essay "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence." He suggests that a history of painting th...

Reading excerpts of The Postmodern Condition with my class, I was reminded of Lyotard's claim that the drive toward system efficiency h...

I frequently use my own career and experience to illustrate issues in my Professional Ethics class. Today, after a discussion of ethical pro...

In a random fit of public service, I present, for the edification of whoever stumbles by, the basic formats for titles of academic publicati...

I started my college career as a psych major (or, as I usually like to put it, suffering the delusion that I was going to be a psych major)....

Every spring I teach a course I designed, called, unwieldly enough, Human Interests and the Power of Information. It is half philosophy of t...