These views are a very basic foundation of the views that form my worldview. I will go through them as thorough as I can, as quickly as I can. I will cover my metaphilosophy, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics and logic in this article.
Before we really get…
This post is in partnership with a good friend of mine, Matthew Bugaj. We both have similar interests when it comes to Philosophy, Logic and reasoning, and in particular, the Philosophy of Mind. Generally, for a debate, many people prefer to have a structured format in a spoken recorded manner…
Lately, I have been reading “A Short History of Modern Philosophy” by Roger Scruton. I have just completed the chapter “The Idea of a Moral Science,” where we are introduced to Bishop Butler who had a really interesting response to Hedonism (not Heathenism). Hedonism is the idea that pleasure is…
Cartesian skepticism is a radical doubt of the senses. Descartes takes the approach of doubting everything, scrutinizing everything that he can. Crash Course: Philosophy equates it the idea of Descartes noticing one bad apple in his basket of apples, and so instead of removing the bad apple, he turns over…
This essay makes references to the book of which it is a part. This essay is a preview of what one might expect from my upcoming book “Reflections on Death, and Philosophy of Mind.”
As an eliminativist, or rather (what I call) the conceptual dualist (There are only the material…
Informal fallacies are fallacies that don’t particularly rely on the way an argument is formed, such as the case of denying the antecedent, but more so focus on a sort of strategy that falls flat due to an appeal of some kind. A couple examples that I plan on going…
Appeals to emotion are logical fallacies (flaws in reason) that instead of relying on solid reasoning, rely on getting someone to empathize with a point of view purely based on an emotional basis. This is generally done by exclaiming something along the lines of “Just think of how I feel!”…
You know what, I have wasted a lot of time in my life. Why have I spent so much time worried about deciding what Philosophy is to ensure I was actually doing it the right way? I always seemed to worry that my writings and essays in Philosophy must be…
One of the most classic types of questions in Philosophy have to do with Metaphysics. So classic and central to Philosophy is Metaphysics in fact that many call it the “First Philosophy.” Metaphysics being the question surrounding “What it means” to be something. What is a desk? What is a…
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Aristotle, Pyrrho, and Hegel. These three thinkers are scattered across the landscape of intellectual discussions based around how to act, ataraxia (free from worry) and skepticism, and how we get where we are through a historical lens. In this essay, we will be taking a look…
