A Fictive Phenomenological Account of Causality A coolant cap. The letter “T” engraved. Jen held it up to the light. Large fluorescent bulbs illuminating the shop. Dirt caked around a crack of the cap. She wiped her hands on a rag. Her right arm was bound in a brace nearly to her elbow. She sat the…

The 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…

Modelling 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. …

The 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. …

The Death of God and Promise Keeping with Mammon — 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 grapple with how to keep social contracts in the face of this. …

Is Pain Only in the Mind? — Overview Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason drafted the idea that space and time are inscrutably mental constructs. Pain is commonly conceived as being something that has an ontology in the senses: the sense of pain is the same as the affect. Furthermore, pain is commonly considered to be…

One Small Step for Kin Selection — Kin Vs Group Selection In One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life, Edward O. Wilson makes the case for eusociality emerging as a form of group selection, rather than kin selection. For eusociality to emerge, group members must exhibit a willingness for “collateral altruism, which is behavior benefiting others at the…

Toxic and ideal forms of masculinity. — In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway questions what masculinity has come to after World War I. Broadly, the book is about the fight against a loss of belief in things: God, masculinity, and Western culture. The war demonstrated that modern technology prevailed and masculinity and skill were not requisite to…

Discussing pain without painfulness, the gift nobody wants. — It is intuitively thought that the affective state of pain, and the sensory component, are conjoined phenomenon. From everyday experience, it sounds unqualifiedly right, all of our experiences align with this conception. I touch my stove, and I get a seamless sensory and affective experience. …