Problems of Life

Reflections on ethics & philosophical miscellanea

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Modeling Meaninglessness

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Here's a paper I'll be presenting in November: Modeling Meaninglessness: The Uses and Abuses of Sisyphus Abstract: Sisyphus’s futile...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

"What's the Point?"

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Here's a short essay I wrote awhile back, when I was first starting to think again about Camus and meaning in life. I have been keeping ...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Overcoming Our Adolescent Furies: Camus, Plague, and Meaning in Life

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Albert Camus is hot right now--in the midst of our own pandemic, many people are reading or re-reading  The Plague . This is good, because I...

Thinking About a Restart

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I've started a new book this summer about the myth of Sisyphus and the search for meaning. I've also been thinking a lot about how s...
Monday, July 02, 2018

I Still Do Philosophy Sometimes, Too!

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Yeah, I've been busy playing music . But I've also been spending some time this summer editing and expanding a paper on Socrates a...
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"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy'." -Wittgenstein
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