Archive for the “philosophy” category
Mis-applications of Gaia theory
by Luke Rodgers on May 31, 2011
I often encounter a sort of frustrating combination of Gaia theory plus bad philosophy of language, which goes something like this:
Earth is not sick, earth has been around for billions of years, and underwent many catastrophes before us, and will (…)
Neat, plausible, and wrong
by Luke Rodgers on May 4, 2011
One of my favourite quotations is from H.L. Mencken:
There is always an easy solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.
Tom Flanagan amply demonstrates the sort of reasoning at which this barb was aimed in a recent op-ed for The Globe (…)
Hegel gets colloquial
by Luke Rodgers on March 24, 2011
From page 1174-5, Volume 2 of the Aesthetics, translated by T.M. Knox.
“If a book does not please me, I can lay it aside, just as I can pass by pictures or statues that are not to my taste, and in (…)
A Heidegger Poem??
by Luke Rodgers on November 27, 2010
who knew equipmentality was so lyrical
Some Philosophical Chuck Norris Facts
by Luke Rodgers on November 25, 2010
(The original)
Chuck Norris can imagine a chiliagon.
Chuck Norris has intellectual intuition.
Chuck Norris threatened Alexandre Kojeve into conceding that history wasn’t over until Chuck Norris said it was.
After watching one episode of Walker: Texas Ranger, Nietzsche changed his concept of “the (…)
Epic Castoriadis run-on sentence
by Luke Rodgers on October 19, 2010
Currently reading Castoriadis’ The Imaginary Institution of Society. The man likes his run-on sentences, as evidenced below. Semi-colons do little to mitigate the sense of being overwhelmed by the piling-up of explications.
The image is therefore a symbol here — but (…)
Marxist or Marxian
by Luke Rodgers on May 1, 2010
Is there a difference?
Me on my buddy’s blog
by Luke Rodgers on April 29, 2010
On the naivete of brain science
