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Value: Life’s Great Conspiracy Theory

Ok, Boomer I love reading articles about the different ways in which younger generations are killing off entire industries. Looking

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Everyday Abstractions: Children and Concrete Value

This summer, I had a wonderful opportunity in teaching a free enrichment course in philosophy to a group of sixth

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Value and Meaning

Existential Edginess, the Teenage Mind

Perhaps one of the most interesting societal trends is the widespread popularity of existentialism and nihilism among teenagers. It appears

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Metaphysics

Leibniz vs. Newton: Mathematics and Metaphysics

The Calculus War My first calculus teacher was a huge fan of Isaac Newton, so early in the school year,

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Epistemology

How We Know: Transcendental Idealism

Previously, I explained the way in which David Hume’s problem of induction entirely undermines any notion of cause and effect

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Epistemology

How Do I Know Why Things Happen?

  Previously, I discussed David Hume’s problem of induction which concludes that induction can never be a valid process for

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Epistemology

How Do I Know What I Know?

When I was first getting into philosophy, my favorite author was Immanuel Kant, and as I started reading his Prolegomena

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Origin Story

For all of my still short life, I have lived in an environment populated by people dedicated to concrete realities

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Recent Posts

  • Value: Life’s Great Conspiracy Theory
  • Everyday Abstractions: Children and Concrete Value
  • Existential Edginess, the Teenage Mind
  • Leibniz vs. Newton: Mathematics and Metaphysics
  • How We Know: Transcendental Idealism
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