Tag: Philosophy

  • What I Read

    I’ve spent Christmas and the New Years up at the acreage; my bees are happily buzzing around when it’s warm, and hiding when it isn’t. This is their nature. Mine is apparently to hide away in a cabin, emerging to walk my dogs, write occasionally, read a lot, and just kind of luxuriate in having…

  • A Year With my Nose in Books

    It has been one of those years that feels long in retrospect, but I am also wondering exactly how I got to December. It’s still fairly early in the month, and I’ll likely finish the books I am reading at present, and start another one or two before the year is out, but I’m comfortable…

  • On “Cornelius Cardew : A Life Unfinished”

    I had a couple of friends in college who both underwent huge personality changes during the time I knew them, both after encountering some philosophical concept that fundamentally changed their understanding of the world around them; one, unfortunately encountered Ayn Rand, and immediately embraced her — I don’t want to dignify it by calling it…

  • Wittgenstein and Graphical Scores

    This is a paper I wrote for my Wittgenstein class. I liked it enough to put it here; I think there are some good ideas in it– I wish I had more time to expand some of them, and refute some of the things I read in others, but like all assignments, this had a…

  • A Prep Cook finishes Reading Wittgenstein

    So I just finished my final essay for my Wittgenstein class. I think it’s a good essay, and I’ll publish it here after I submit it for a grade. But at the end of the class (well, I still have a final to take, but the writing part is over). I’m a little restless. Reading…

  • A Prep Cook reads Wittgenstein

    Someone I know said that they get “90% of the philosophy I read” from this blog which leads me to two thoughts : 1) How oddly specific, and 2) how oddly depressing. I’m an undergrad, and a prep cook in the philosophical world, watching people with bigger brains stroll by all the time, apparently effortlessly…

  • A Pretentious Title About Philosophy

    I walk the dog every morning. Most mornings, we walk up the French Quarter and out to the Mississippi River, and walk along it a little way. In the winter months, this is close to sunrise. I usually stop, take a picture of the dog with the sunrise in the background, and post the photo…

  • On Distractions, or, Zettel’s Kasten

    Assuming all goes well, I will be re-entering school in the fall, at my ancient age, to study philosophy. The road that got me here isn’t uninteresting, but it’s not my primary focus for this essay. But, as a result of this decision, I’ve been re-learning how to take more detailed notes as I read;…