Flash Philosophy 5 — Getting Stranded on the Moral Highway
Flash philosophy is like a Junior Mint — it makes a great little philosophy snack, but it’s…
In the last article, we decided on a concept of knowledge that, though admittedly a little weird, is really pretty simple. Knowledge is physical change in our bodies and brains caused by physical changes in the world. The world outside ourselves is only…
A lot of reality is like water to a fish — we have trouble thinking about it because there’s nothing obvious to contrast it with. It’s sort of everywhere and nowhere. One useful way I’ve found to think about things like that is to try to imagine…
So at the end of the last post, we threw down some radical notions:
PHILOSOPHY IS CONCEPTS ABOUT HOW THINGS WORK
DOING PHILOSOPHY IS MAKING CLEAR HOW OUR CONCEPTS WORK
I’ve been writing about Philosophy and thinking about how to communicate philosophical ideas for a long time, and I think I’ve finally figured out what I was doing wrong.