Continuum Philosophical Insight
Philosophical Consulting and Education
Where do we get our “ideas” or “beliefs”? Before answering, it is helpful to define each of those terms—they tend to be terms that we presume ourselves to know but may not really understand. First, “idea”: an idea is a conceptualization of meaning. In other words, it is the means by which we understand the …
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One thing lies common to all of us: we are human. We have human bodies, human minds; human feelings, human thoughts, human desires, human beliefs. But aside from these and other such generic commonalities, our experiences differ. The experiences of being a man or being a woman (or being intersex, for that matter, though an …
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As a Research Fellow with the Center for the Study of Digital Life, my main project has been to explore the connections of the faculty psychology originated by Aristotle's Περὶ ψυχῆς (transliterated: Peri psuche; in Latin: De anima; in English: On the Soul) and carried into the medieval tradition, especially as found in Thomas Aquinas and …
And why is it such a problem? One of the most serious and extensive controversies of the Latin Age of philosophy was that of universals. The Greek philosophy of antiquity, and its transmission into the Latin Age by Boethius and through the Islamic tradition, had long discussed the question of whether the way in which …
In the wake of the divisive political hatred exhibited in increasingly-shrill tones since 2008, I have some news that many might consider bad: namely, things are not going to go back to normal. Undoubtedly, there will be an ebbing away from the public focus on this hatred seen in response to the Kavanaugh hearings, which …
The word "small" is a relative word: that is, something is small only in comparison to something larger. If everywhere were precisely the same size, nothing would be small, just as nothing would be large. Without variation in size, nothing would even be average. Consequently, when we think of things being small, we tend …
The past three years have seen a considerable amount of angst over the changes digital technology--ubiquituous socialized participation in all forms of media, in particular (with social media platforms becoming increasingly expansive in their reach and integration with the rest of the media)--has been rendering in not only our political and social but also psychological …
The terms "modernism" and "postmodernism" are very frequently abused. As all terms of culture, they admit a wide variety of predications: were you to compare two things called "modern" or "postmodern" side-by-side, the connection may not be immediately evident, except that very probably they would both be ugly: regardless of whether they are architecture, sculpture, …
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