Tag: philosophy

February 2, 2019 David Haskell

Dear Reader Welcome back! Readership is a writer’s reward. I appreciate your time and attention! It has been some time since I posted here but this project remains important to me. By way of diving back in, I’d like to revisit my hopes for this website and address the reasons for its existence. What,…

October 25, 2017 David Haskell

The real world is a complicated place – our ideas about it, not so much. Yet we should always be smarter than our ideas! Ideas exist within certain structural contexts, so called “mental models,” or frames of reference. It’s important to be able to look at these structures with an objective and critical eye….

April 13, 2017 David Haskell

Do you think philosophy is bullshit?   Maybe it’s not total bullshit. Philosophy is well and good for kids in school, for instance, but not practical in the real world?   We love to joke about philosophy majors flipping burgers for a living, don’t we?   Philosophy sounds like a lot of talk and…