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August 11, 2010 – 12:22 am

Thanks everyone for your patience the last nearly four weeks as I have been rarely posting new ideas pieces.  I’ve been preoccupied with a short vacation, moving, and then some settling in and taking a few days to do nothing for the first time since finishing the dissertation in the spring. But it’s time to [...]

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Catch Up! Chip In!

July 5, 2009 – 2:30 pm

Since philosophical posts don’t age quickly, it’s not too late to catch up on some of my thought pieces featured on the blog the last week and a half.  Here’s a handy compendium if you’re looking to make sure you didn’t miss anything: First of course, there is the most sustained discussion in the blog’s [...]

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à tout à l’heure, Shane

June 30, 2009 – 9:01 pm

For those of you who have followed along this last week, Shane and I have volleyed back and forth 7.5 times in a vigorous, rigorous, and somewhat wide-ranging debate primarily aimed at establishing whether or not religious faith constitutes an illicit appeal to arbitrary authority and whether religions, therefore, can be denounced on epistemological grounds [...]

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A Note For Philosophy Non-Specialists About This Blog

June 28, 2009 – 5:59 pm

Please, if your specialization in life is not philosophy, do not feel unwelcomed when encountering the sorts of detailed phiosophical discussion that this blog specializes in. When I write on here I am going to write in the clearest and most precise way I can about the philosophical issues that arise in my research on [...]

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Why Camels With Hammers?

June 25, 2009 – 11:15 am

Evangelos has asked and it’s a good question, so here’s a brief explanation: It’s a combination of two images in Nietzsche.  The camel comes from “The Three Transformations,” a section of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.  He is there describing transformations that the “spirit” must undergo.  First it must become a camel.  The camel represents austere, ascetic, [...]

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June 23, 2009 – 12:07 am

As the dates on the posts right below this one will show, I last blogged almost exactly a year ago. Fear not, this does not mean I’m a lazy or uncommitted blogger.  Rather, I did not feel justified diverting writing energies away from my dissertation at the time. But now I am finishing up my [...]

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Nietzsche Doesn't Post Here

May 12, 2008 – 11:12 am

This is not a site for Nietzsche’s ideas but a place for Nietzschean ideas. It is not a place for the dogmatic preaching of Nietzschean ideas. It is not a place where everyone will necessarily agree with Nietzschean ideas. It is a place where Nietzschean ideas will seduce us to many a new venture of thought and promise nothing more definitive than that.

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