Philosophicalmatters

 Happy to announce I've got a book coming out in late November.  Here's a link:  Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction |...

I haven't had much to say on here lately. Mostly because of the way I've curated this blog. I write about political stuff all the ti...

I spend a lot of time - you can ask people who have to deal with me in physical form - trying to figure out what makes something "true....

Recently I was listening to John Scofield's amazing new album Country for Old Men .  In the album the jazz-fusion virtuoso does his take...

If political news was filtered out of your life, would you be able to tell - from your daily existence- what party was in power? (politics i...

The only channels that I watch on "regular" television are MSNBC to watch Rachel Maddow at 9pm and the Viceland Channel, which I w...

In Being and Time , Martin Heidegger discusses different modes of being.  One mode he discusses is called the "they-self."  This i...