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I don’t imagine this will come as any big surprise to anybody who’s thought about these very much, but it comes up enough in dealing with students — especially in intro philosophy classes — that I’ll write it down.
There’s a mutually reinforcing chain of connections that I think plays a pretty significant role for a [...]

Here’s a kind of naturalistic mistake about what’s “really” in experience that seems to turn up in a lot of places: It’s the idea that some thing like 2-D “frames” of vision are “present” (and maybe all that’s really present) in visual phenomena. (This seems to show up not only in “naive” assessments, but [...]

I finally got around to seeing I ♥ Huckabees. It was mostly just kind of silly, with a few good moments (my favorite is noted below). But it was a reminder of the kind of thoughts and concerns that students bring to philosophy classes that we mainstream teachers of philosophy don’t address so [...]