Editor's Note: You may recall our new contributor Dylan Casey from our quantum physics and pragmatism episodes. He's a physics Ph.D. who teaches philosophy, literature, and other things at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and I'm married to his sister. -ML This article from "The Stone" (as in philosopher's stone) in the NYTimes argues that, properly understood, Continue Reading …
Martial Arts Without the Mysticism
A trivial generalization about modern Western philosophy is that it splits between the more scientific "analytic" and more humanistic "continental" traditions.* A crass -- but more true than false -- characterization of these two traditions is that the analytic tradition attempts to solve problems, and the continental traditions...um...don't. Similarly, one might roughly divide Continue Reading …
The Philosophy of Jumping Around and Yelling
We've some great discussion and sharing of experiences going here, with reasonable people (including the author of the article I linked to... someone's got a Google alert out for his own name, I'm thinking. :) ) talking about the aesthetic approach to physical competitiveness and other cool things. But what does master YouTube think? Watch on youtube. In this short Continue Reading …