Technology

RMWMTMBM Re-Launch (and an Encouraging Anecdote for Frustrated Scholars)

Oh, hey there, strangers! It’s been a minute– and by “a minute” I mean more than three months– since I showed my (digital) self ’round these parts, so I figured an explanation for my ghosting is long past overdue. The nunya story is that I’ve spent the last several weeks/months being more or less held…

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Relativism, Revolutionary Fictionalism, Moral Facts and #TheDress

[Disclaimer: this post is a brief, quickly-composed and so incomplete response to a number of tangentially-related events and essays from the last several days.  I have a lot more to say about all of them, including how they are not merely tangentially-related, but not now.] If you haven’t already, you should read yesterday’s Stone article in the…

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The “Real” and “True” You

Last week, my Philosophy and Film class took up the theme of “documentary truth.”  In preparation for our Tuesday night seminar, students were required to choose one film from a list of documentaries (Grizzly Man, The Thin Blue Line, Night and Fog, Bowling for Columbine, Capturing the Friedmans, Man on Wire, Super Size Me, Ghosts…

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