Figured it would be helpful to have one place to document all the ways to contact me and find my content in the unlikely event someone is curious about any of that. Primarily for content, there is my YouTube channel where I post interviews with academics on various topics, instructional lecture style videos, book reviews … Continue reading Where to Find Me and My Content
Are Appeals to Expert Consensus Fallacious?
It is (in my experience online) often claimed that appeal to expert consensus on a topic is an instance of the ad populum or "appeal to the masses" informal fallacy. Consider this example of interlocutors we can call A and B for convenience' sake. A: Why do you believe in anthropogenic climate change? B: Well, … Continue reading Are Appeals to Expert Consensus Fallacious?
Review of Heather: “Empires and Barbarians”
Micah Edvenson, review of Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, by Peter Heather, Oxford University Press, 2009. Peter Heather's 2009 book "Empires and Barbarians" is a sprawling and impressive contribution to the study of Late Antiquity/The Early Middle Ages. The following is as if now, not a comprehensive summary … Continue reading Review of Heather: “Empires and Barbarians”
Wittgenstein on whether “Thinking is a mental process”
This post like my last one is content from a seminar assignment. I was prompted to answer whether Wittgenstein would agree with the claim that "thinking is a mental process" in roughly 500 words. Here is my take on the matter, which I find useful in that I attempt to clarify why some readings of … Continue reading Wittgenstein on whether “Thinking is a mental process”
Fragmentary Questions and Comments from My First Encounter with Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations”
I would be remiss in not giving some preliminary context for the present post, so here goes. This past semester at University I took an advanced undergraduate seminar on Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" and it was, if nothing else, a formative philosophical experience. This was not only my first formal interaction with Wittgenstein's work, but … Continue reading Fragmentary Questions and Comments from My First Encounter with Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations”
My Key Philosophical Views
In this post I will answer some questions from the PhilPapers surveys in order to document some of my key philosophical positions and positions on a few issues I find important or interesting. This will not be exhaustive, I will cover the essentials and a handful of other things for now, although eventually I would … Continue reading My Key Philosophical Views
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