PinnedMember-onlyThe Cathartic Nature of Sartre’s World of NothingnessLiving a Justified Life With an Existence that Is Unjustified Getting Existential Jean Paul Sartre was one of the father’s of Existentialism. Existentialism can be summarized by a particularly interesting quote from Sartre: “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” In fact, Sartre thought humans were painfully forced…Philosophy5 min readPhilosophy5 min read
Feb 10Member-onlyDoes a Life have Coherence? The Passenger and Stella Maris on Life’s CoherenceWhat Ties a Life Together? — McCarthy and Why We’re Here The Passenger and Stella Maris may be the last novels to come from Cormac McCarthy, who I consider the best living fiction writer alive. McCarthy is known for his paratactic writing style which harks back to the spoken tradition. His writing also breaks norms of writing, lacking punctuation for dialogue…Mccarthy9 min readMccarthy9 min read
Jan 5Member-onlyThe Inheritance of Destiny, and the Curse of the Atomic Family, Philosophy of The Passenger and Stella MarisGenealogy and Destiny — McCarthy and Why We’re Here The Passenger and Stella Maris may be the last novels to come from Cormac McCarthy, who I consider the best living fiction writer alive. McCarthy is known for his paratactic writing style which harks back to the spoken tradition rather than the written one. His writing also breaks norms of…Cormac Mccarthy6 min readCormac Mccarthy6 min read
Sep 7, 2022Member-onlyThe Unreality of TimeMcTaggart and Prior — “I believe that time is unreal.’ But I do so for reasons which are not, I think, employed by any of the philosophers whom I have mentioned, and I propose to explain my reasons in this paper,” (Mctaggart 1908, 457) Most everyone accept that time is real. McTaggart famously took…Philosophy3 min readPhilosophy3 min read
Jul 27, 2022A Short Story About Self-publishing a Short Story CollectionDon’t be Embarrassed by Your Art — My fiction writing journey started in about 2018. Those were the “too much on the nose” days. The “you’re just using characters to ask philosophy questions,” days. I began seriously writing at the start of the pandemic. Post undergrad and pre-pandemic I moved back into my parent’s house. I was…Fiction3 min readFiction3 min read
Jul 16, 2022Member-onlyWhy Kathryn Paige Harden Can’t Distance herself from “Genetic Determinists”Supra-causal Model of Genetics James Madole and Kathryn Harden, recently authored a paper in Behavioral Brain Sciences[3] that reveals what I long suspected one of her projects to be: to separate certain researchers in the genetics community out from the rest as researchers who believe genes are supra-causal (basically another word for determinist). This…Science5 min readScience5 min read
Published inSlightly Educated·Jun 28, 2022Member-onlyAn Examination of the Philosophy of Blood MeridianThe Evening Redness in the West — The Past that was and the Past that was not “Man’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.” Blood Meridian is a historical fiction by Cormac McCarthy that traces the bloody etchings of a historical gang, the Glanton gang. While much of the book is fabricated fictions for McCarthy to craft…Cormac Mccarthy18 min readCormac Mccarthy18 min read
Feb 4, 2022Member-onlyPopper on Theory Probability, Testability, and InductionThe Logic of Scientific Discovery — Introduction Karl Popper was a Philosopher of Science who rejected many popular Positivist positions, positions which actually seemed transient due to the rapid advancement of 20th century science. Popper’s main gripes with the positivist position are mainly three fold. The Positivist position can be described for in the following ways…Science6 min readScience6 min read
Jan 26, 2022Member-onlyThe Philosophy of No Country for Old Men: Anton ChighurModelling One’s Self After God Existential First Principles No Country for Old Men is a novel by Cormac McCarthy about promise keeping after the death of God. All of the main characters have some answer as to how to keep social contracts in the face of this. …Philosophy10 min readPhilosophy10 min read
Jan 19, 2022Member-onlyThe Philosophy of No Country for Old Men: Llewelyn MossThe Water Bearer — Existential First Principles No Country for Old Men is a novel by Cormac McCarthy about promise keeping after the death of God. All of the main characters have some answer as to how to keep social contracts in the face of this. …Existentialism10 min readExistentialism10 min read
