OK, so I didn’t make as much progress on Arendt as I had hoped to today. Too much work. However, I did return home tonight to find my copy of Derek Parfit’s On What Matters. As soon as I opened the box I knew I was in trouble. This is on weighty two volume set, and in all likelihood it’s going to be some time before I read it. I can’t see carrying these books on a flights, but nonetheless am hoping to get through them. Parfit has been writing this book for a while now, with many of the chapters appearing first as Tanner Lectures, given a while back, and some chapters being responses to those lectures. There are a lot of reasons to… Continue reading
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A ordered a iPad 2 as soon as it was released, and am now trying to see how good a tool it will be for blogging. As the few reader of this blog know, I haven’t been particularly good lately with updating this blog. I am hoping this blog post will change that. I downloaded a few blogging tools for the iPad, and Blogsy looks to be the most promising. This is a test post. … Continue reading Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system. I’ve seen that most of the evidence that’s been used on this topic comes from articles, most I suspect collected and pre-digested by some very bad institutions that profit from selling arguments and evidence to high schools debaters. In general, I find the practice abhorrent, thinking that the value of the activity comes only in part actual act of debating, but also from the weeks and months that debaters spend preparing for their debates. Sadly, though the Internet has on balance been very beneficial for academic debating, the ease with which materials can be found, cut and paste, has not only made an industry out of doing research… Continue reading Resolved: In the United States, juveniles I know, there are very few of the few readers of my blog who care about baseball. However, I was very pleased to read tonight that Javier Vazquez signed with the Florida Marlins. He was one of the many reasons the Yankees didn’t win the World Series this year, and I’m glad to see that the Yankees’s recognized their mistake, didn’t re-sign him, and will even get a draft pick because he signed elsewhere. Good luck, Fish!… Continue reading |
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