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June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 3 Comments

As my first post for the new year, I want to send out an invitation to all of you lurking readers of this site to scroll down the column to your right and choose “Follow This Blog.” I’m entering my fifth consecutive year here at readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore and, like most blogs, this site has its regular…

Mulligan?

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Comments Off

One of my favorite stories ever was told to me by a colleague of mine in the Psychology Department, Dr. Julie Steel. Frustrated with end-of-the-semester appeals for better grades by wayward students, she figured there must be a better rejoinder than simply sighing in exasperation and staring-back with incredulity. So, when students ask that oh-so-familiar…

Happy Holidays, Blogosphere!

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

Liability Waivers

June 9, 2024 Dr. J 2 Comments

I recently had occasion to read the application for a (to-remain-unnamed-for-now) reality television show. Most of it was pretty much what one would expect, namely, questions designed to identify potential candidates’ idiosyncrasies, fears, hopes, delusions of grandeur, pet peeves, and anything else that might make for interesting TV. Also as expected, there’s a lot of…

“This Country Was Not Built By Men in Suits.” (So Say the Men in Suits)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 3 Comments

I’ve been fascinated recently by the obvious change in tone of many television commercials. We’re in an economic downturn, in case you hadn’t heard, and so many of the major ad-men seem to have been forced to acquiesce to the hard fact of hard times. There’s a lot more emphasis on product “affordability,” a lot…

Dr. J’s Top Stories of 2009

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 7 Comments

What a long, strange trip it’s been! It’s almost time to bid adieu to the last year of the first decade of the new millineum. In case you weren’t paying attention, here are a dozen of the highlights (and lowlights) of 2009: 12. Sarah Palin Goes “Rogue” The Grand Dame of the Illiterati wrote a…

Philosophy, Done Another Way

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Comments Off

As I mentioned a little while ago on this blog, I gave students in my Existentialism course this semester the option of making a short film for extra credit. The motivation for this was my frustration, in previous iterations of this course, with what I viewed as a deficiency on my part of adequately capturing…

Friendly Fire

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 3 Comments

The disagreement between AnPan and I that has been taking place on our blogs (here and here) has reminded me of why I feel fortunate to have good friends like him. As it just so happens, this also is the time in the semester (at my instiution) when most of the first-years are deep into…

Right, Real, True… and Other Relative Terms

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 2 Comments

Lest I get too comfortable with my tiny, marginally-significant place in the blogosphere, thinking that we’re all friends here and readers of this blog are basically in agreement on the stuff that really matters, all of us interacting virtually in a kind of harmonious echo-chamber of progressive philosophical wonderment… yeah, lest I get too comfortable…

Relative To What?

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 1 Comment

This will be brief, as I am now in the midst of grading, but I wanted to address AnPan’s response to my response on the whole issue of (his) moral realism versus (my) moral relativism before too much time passed. I think we may have the beginning of a rapprochement after reading AnPan’s last rebuttal,…

Follow This Blog!

Mulligan?

Happy Holidays, Blogosphere!

Liability Waivers

“This Country Was Not Built By Men in Suits.” (So Say the Men in Suits)

Dr. J’s Top Stories of 2009

Philosophy, Done Another Way

Friendly Fire

Right, Real, True… and Other Relative Terms

Relative To What?

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