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Between 1999 and 2011, student loan debt increased 511%. College graduate unemployment is a little under 9%. The largest single employment s...

In most colleges and universities there is a structure called shared governance. Through this structure, the institution sets policy and mak...

I received my new three-year appointment, and signed and brought it to campus today. (I had requested a bump up to Range C, since I've b...

I suppose my post yesterday could have suggested I agree with whoever it was who said that life would never have posed any philosophical pro...

We don't need philosophy.* The American philosopher John Dewey proposed that genuine inquiry could only arise as a result of a real, p...

Maybe. I haven't been using mine as intensively as in summers past for thinking my little thoughts. This summer has been different fro...

We were at a philosophy conference this past week. It was good. A couple of papers dealt directly or indirectly with mental illness, which...

From the standpoint of persons who regard themselves as normally sexed, their environment has a perceivedly normal sex composition. This co...

Abnormality is a serious problem for a philosophy that grounds objectivity and truth on intersubjective reality, as does Husserl's pheno...

I'm losing patience with Bataille's chapter on Nietzsche. Maybe this is because of Bataille's interpretation, but it fits with j...

Bataille relates sovereign expenditure and enjoyment to a "miraculous" moment of consumption without return or remainder. In very ...

I woke up around 1:30 AM, with my left hip/lower back in enough pain that I couldn't sleep. I blind-walked downstairs to fetch ibuprofen...

I try to read sympathetically. I try to be open-minded with philosophy books. I also try to read books that are outside my usual field, beca...

What does it mean to say someone is wrong about their experience of love? We often make these judgments when we've fallen in love with s...