Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: LADY HOWARD TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS Howard Grove, Kent. Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to ...

Noel Carroll has an interesting discussion of the ethics of joking at The New Statesman . His point that the mere fact that you are joking ...

...[O]ne who receives the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son knows the Father and the Son and comes to them. The Spirit makes us know a...

Seven Incantations Seven incantations in the Elven realm are known -- three for power, three for splendor, one that stands alone -- migh...

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 4.15.5 (1690): If I myself see a man walk on the ice, it is past probability; it is k...

David Papineau has a somewhat odd essay on knowledge at Aeon. He wants to argue that knowledge is not a helpful concept, but his argument i...

Clamavi De Profundis, "When the Hammer Falls"