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A 15 Minute Insight on what memes affect socially and culturally, how, and why it's not necessarily a good thing--quite probably bad, in fact. ...a meme does nothing to persuade intellectually itself, but relies upon some conceptual framework already and otherwise established. It might alter that conceptual framework, but does so only incidentally, through an …
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The latest 15 Minute Insight, some quick thoughts of a philosophical understanding of masculinity, understood causally. The distinctive male physiology is, of course, very important. But there is a trap in thinking exclusively or primarily about masculinity from the biological perspective; namely, that it often leads to reductionism. That is, if we look for the …
Part 2 of the Literature and Philosophy 15 Minute Insight series--this time, looking at the nature of storytelling media and their effects on our psychological faculties and habits. This evocation of thought by literature is something we perhaps seldom notice in the moment that we are reading the literature itself; that is, we do not …
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The latest 15 Minute Insight, first of a series of undetermined length: here, looking at the nature of literature as the principal storytelling medium in civilization and examining (briefly) its mimetic function as instructive. Jealousy, in particular among the emotions central to The End of the Affair, seems to me most easily misunderstood. For one, …
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This week's 15 Minute Insight (the 4th and final in the series), on semiotics as a discipline and as the normative science of truth. But now, let us ask—since we’re talking about the study of the action of signs and this questions seems pretty important for that discussion—let us ask, what is a sign? In …
On the Meaning of "Objective" and the fallout from loss of its original meaning
Another week, another 15 Minute Insight video; this time on the meaning of "truth". Today, speaking very broadly, most theories of truth fall into one of two camps. The first, the more traditional camp, sees truth as somehow revelatory of or correspondent with reality as independent of our cognitive activity. The most well-known such theory …
Another week, another 15 Minute Insight video; this time on modernism and postmodernism. Today’s topic is the first of four related videos I’ll be doing: following this, in two weeks, I’ll be posting a video on the meaning of “truth”; the week after, on the meaning of “objective”, and finally, the week after that, a …
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