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A line in Foucault's lecture course  Abnormal led me to consider the contemporary conditions of poverty. His line was about the outmoded...

In my Professional Ethics course, I have my students read an essay by a community college English instructor who is unsur...

Right now, I've got the following balls in the air: stuff about the phenomenological concepts of normal and abnormal, and the critiqu...

Students in my Professional Ethics and Bioethics classes confront issues of social justice very early in the semester. Professional Ethics b...

When I was 17, my list of things I wanted in life would have included pretty much the following: a hot chick an electric guitar a car...

I have only 67 more class sessions this semester. It's taking a little while to gear up for this term. My usual level of enthusiasm fo...

Time's about to run out on summer's reading activities. Do I now understand more about orientation and the normal? Or about embodime...

It's odd I ended up writing about this. I went on a bit of a walk to try to solve a problem about whether I could meaningfully say I am...

Lately, I feel like I've been led ineluctably to this question, all of my life. Most recently, I've been led there by the confluence...

This summer, I've been tracking down ideas of normal and abnormal, as ways of describing bodily experience. This is inspired, as I'v...

My favorite stuff Husserl wrote was about what he called "passivity," which is not as passive as it sounds -- it's about the b...

It makes no sense, e.g., to ask whether the Gretel of one fairy tale and the Gretel of another are the same Gretel, whether what is imagine...

I tried to come up with a good analogy to help explain to my non-phenomenological-philosopher friends why reading Husserl's account of m...

Today I've picked up Edmund Husserl's Experience and Judgment  for the first time in many years. It's crazy as hell. The book ...

After much hand-wringing and angst, I believe I have successfully revised "the goofy paper," per the occasionally-apposite reviewe...

This morning, Alexander lay on my lap, seeming comfortable, for about an hour while we watched the Tour de France on the tube (sucks to be J...

We've brought Alexander to the vet twice now since Sunday. He's lost hair on his abdomen and backs of his hind legs. On Sunday the f...

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...