by Mark English In casual conversation, a friend mentioned a video clip she had seen which depicted a little girl apparently being sucked into the
Month: August 2017
Cosmopolitan
by Margaret Rowley Multiple news sources have detailed Stephen Miller’s recent accusation hurled at Jim Acosta of “cosmopolitan bias,” an insult that has been recently
This Week’s Special: On a Metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
by Daniel A. Kaufman I want to talk about a certain metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It appears in a lone sentence in Book III,
Boston in Soundscapes
By Margaret Rowley On the back of our house is a porch, probably ten feet long and five feet wide, hung all around with plants,
Doctor Who and the Ontology of the Fictional Character
by E. John Winner Philosophical background This is not a text of philosophy, but it would be remiss not to note some of the philosophical
Against Neoconservatism
by Mark English Questions of geopolitics are all too easy to talk about, but very difficult to talk about sensibly. In this respect they are