Eliminativism and reductionism are two terms that can easily trip up both non-philosophers and new philosophers alike. The difference between these terms might seem like mere semantics, but when properly…
One of the big reasons I started this blog was to learn philosophy, and so I wanted to take this last post of 2018 as an opportunity to reflect on…
Is there a philosophy of Thanksgiving or expressing gratitude? With it being Thanksgiving in the States, I found myself applying the philosophical lens to gratitude. As it turns out, there’s…
Given that it’s Halloween, I thought for this month’s post I’d get a bit festive by talking about 13 spooky concepts in philosophy, and I could think of nothing spookier…
In this second post on ethics, we’ll be going into greater detail regarding topics in metaethics. Metaethics defined simply To outsiders and newcomers to philosophy, metaethics is likely large, abstract,…
With February being Black History Month in the US, I wanted to take on a philosophical project that would teach me something I didn’t know. Over the past month, I’ve…
Given that it’s Valentine’s Day, I figured this week’s post should be all about love. While love and philosophy seem like two things you’d want to keep completely separate, the…
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but…