Thursday, December 31, 2015

A Defense of New Year's Resolutions (That THEY Don't Want You to Know About)

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Introduction Around this time of year my news feed is infected with click-baity articles or facebook statuses about how New Year's re...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

YOU are a Philosopher (Sometimes)

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When people talk to me about studying philosophy, I’m usually met with similar questions. What’s the point of doing philosophy? When ca...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Training Guide for Dogs

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Training Guide for Dogs Suppose you want a treat but your human is frantically trying to get his work done thus not paying attention to...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Repressed Emotions: What Are They Supposed to Be? Part 1

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Introduction and Two Theories of Emotion You'll often hear the term 'repressed emotion' bandied about in the self-help industri...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Gun Control Policy in Public Spaces

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Introduction Can you write something about guns in the US of A without pissing off a large portion of your audience? Not likely. But let me...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Doing What Feels Right and Sartre's Existentialism

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Introduction Existentialism can be summarized in one phrase, " existence precedes essence ." But what does this mean? Pre-existen...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Cilantro, Moral Truth, and Justification

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Preamble:   I've been working on this paper for longer than I care to admit but I have to turn it in at some point. I've written ...