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To anyone visiting this site, it should be no surprise that I haven’t updated the blog in years. Philosimplicity was a labor of love, but around 2019 I started a…
Teleporters & You: The Teletransporter Paradox and Personal Identity
The question of whether or not one should step into a teleporter has plagued science fiction fans for decades. Although teleporters are not real, the perceived consequences of stepping in…
What’s the Difference between Eliminativism and Reductionism?
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…
What’s the Ethical Principle Guiding Thanos’ Snap?
With Avengers Endgame upon us, I decided to reflect on Thanos’ motivations in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’ll be jumping right into the ethics behind the motivation for Thanos’ snap….
The Philosophical Lens (April 2019): Meat, Morality, and the Meaning of Harm
With April 22 being Earth Day, I wanted to discuss the ethics of meat. This is a really big topic that I can’t hope to cover in one post, but…
The Ethics of Pokémon Battles: Is Pokemon Dog Fighting?
This post started out as a joke that would have been published on April 1. Originally, I was going to ironically argue that the Pokémon franchise was an allegory for…
Issues in the ethics of procreation: What is Antinatalism?
Recent news of an Indian businessman, Raphael Samuel, suing his parents for giving birth to him has brought attention to a somewhat obscure philosophical position known as antinatalism. But what is…
The 5 Most Interesting Things I learned this Year
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…
The Philosophical Lens (November 2018): The Philosophy of Thanksgiving
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…
13 Weird and Spooky Philosophical Thought Experiments
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…