Liberals? We Don’t Got No Stinkin’ Liberals Here

(this post was written by Kyle on March 27, 2008, and it concerns & & & )

In his Washington Post elections blog, Dan Balz writes:
Long before wrapping up the Republican nomination, McCain made clear that against either Clinton or Obama, he would cast the campaign as a contest between liberalism and conservatism. He has strayed from Republican orthodoxy at times in his career, and has irritated his own party repeatedly by [...]

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Embracing the Interface

(this post was written by Kyle on December 15, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & )

“In metaphysics, a being is in a relation with what it cannot absorb, with what it cannot, in the etymological sense, comprehend.” - Emmanuel Levinas, Totality & Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.
What is the ontological status of that space where the software meets the hardware? I’m not speaking technically here. Technically, that space is way [...]

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Neo-pragmatism: Ideas at Work

(this post was written by Kyle on December 14, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & )

As near as I can tell, the entire philosophy of neo-pragmatism is based on the assumption that philosophy is supposed to work. But for the life of me, I’m not 100% sure what it is that philosophy is supposed to work on. I suspect that it is a theory of “judgment,” but again, I’m not [...]

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Value Added Philosophy

(this post was written by Kyle on October 25, 2005, and it concerns & & )

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In his book, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Richard Rorty proposes three major theses that, he suggests, will change the direction of contemporary philosophy.
His first thesis is that modern philosophy (since Kant1) has understood itself as epistemology, as a discipline devoted to “the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.”2 Unfortunately, writes [...]

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Faith in Shadows

(this post was written by Kyle on September 24, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & )

Without fundamental trustthere is no trust at all.Lao-TzuTAO TE CHING
I know that I have read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty (or see online version). I do not know that I have understood it. At the end of the text, I was left with a fundamental question about how individuals (and societies) of differing traditions are to [...]

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