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How Philosophy May Help to Deal with Disagreement

Philosophy is sometimes perceived as an abstract and nerdy discipline dealing with problems of its own creation in an isolated chamber of the Ivory...
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Travel, Fear, and Cheating

On a warm spring night in 2016, I found myself lost and alone in the small hours of morning in Kashgar. My welcome to...

The New Panopticon

With my work bringing me back in touch with public high school education, and as someone recently acquainted with a third decade of mostly...
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Reflections on the Gamification of Fitness

According to any number of game designers, psychologists, and journalists, our lives are becoming increasingly gamified. Gamification, or “the use of game design elements...
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Advice from an Emperor

I am hard-pressed to recall the nuances of externalism and internalism on a late night with an old friend. The details of safety and...
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Is Housework a Sisyphean Struggle or a Way to Bring Joy to Our Lives?

Disclaimer: For the purposes of this blog article, the author aims to contrast the public life of men and the private life of women,...