Siris

  Introductory Note : By a very long tradition, philosophy is said to involve three things: physics (i.e., the philosophical study of natura...

 mind as intelligibilizing intelligibility "A perfect language would be like a garment of light, unfolding with clear transparency the ...

  Thought for the Evening: Tractatus Coislinianus I am currently reading Walter Watson's The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics...

  To the question "What is a human body?" I intend to propose seven preliminary answers: that it is an animal body with various po...

 Sonnet by John Keats Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there  Among the bushes half leafless, and dry;  The stars look very co...

  A Nightmare Mammon and License, the gods of America, walk like ifrits on the sands by the shore. A fire is in them, a darkness of fire, a ...

 The philosophical question of personal identity over time is, roughly, the topic of what is required for a person at one time to be the sam...