After one of my philosophy classes, a student asked me if water is wet. Being a philosopher, I had to apply some thought to this question. On the one hand, this is an easy question to answer as it just requires looking up the definition of “wet.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “wet” as consisting of,…
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment proves or disproves an existing theory; its payoff is data, fixed and binary. An…
While we Americans praise religious freedom, we have a long history of religious bigotry. The oldest is the anti-Catholicism the colonies inherited from the British that endured at least until the election of Kennedy. The most American religious bigotry is anti-Mormonism which is bigotry by Americans against a religion originating in America. The most recent…
