Siris

Sorry that so many of my posts lately have been rough, loose, and sometimes cryptic notes; I've been pressed for time when at the comput...

I'm sure I've actually come across this before (although perhaps did not really recognize it), and I've definitely watched the r...

There's a discussion going on at "Disputations" on moral certainty ( here and here ), and in particular with this definition ...

Quite the convocation of greatness. Longfellow's version of Michelangelo's poem on Dante: Dante What should be said of him cannot be...

The following is all very rough. I recently came across a statement of this sort: "This argument...is clearly valid, and so if there ar...

Kenny on Berkeley and common sense (x-posted here ): Berkeley's project is, as he famously put it, to "think with the learned, and...

How Strange Is That? I felt I fell in love with you today; how strange is that? Waiting for the bus we stopped and stayed to chat, when sudd...