Notes

I’m going to update this post throughout the next ten weeks with new information about mind and science fiction. It will consist primarily of summarization, although if I find something exceptionally problematic and decide to grapple with it immediately… then I will post a link to my further analysis. — 1st week of April :: robustness, universality, recognizing consciousness — This image was attached to a spacecraft and was intended to depict its ideas in a “universal language” – can you decipher it in its entirety?...

I’m going to update this post throughout the next ten weeks with new information about wonder and the aesthetics of magic or illusion. — 1st week of April :: the aesthetic dilemma, what is beauty? — In his book, Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Daniel Herwitz introduces a real conundrum: what is beauty? Indeed, it’s not a problem of his own invention… it’s a real problem that has been bugging philosophers for centuries....

I’m going to update this post throughout the next ten weeks with new information about political philosophy.

I’m going to update this post throughout the next ten weeks with new information about moral luck. It will consist primarily of summarization, although if I find something exceptionally problematic and decide to grapple with it immediately… then I will post a link to my further analysis. — 1st week of April :: different types of moral luck, empirical vs theoretical components — Thomas Nagel, in the third chapter of his book Mortal Questions, raises a real issue – what he calls a paradox – with moral accountability in a world of uncertainty....