Jack RinFoundationsQuine’s Refutation of a Dogma and its ResponsesIn his essay “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” Willard Van Orman Quine attacks two long held views of empiricists: the distinction between…Apr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
Jack RinFoundationsMill and the Scene of UtilitarianismThat the task of an ethical system — a framework, in this respect — is to provide a prescriptive system which aims toward the “good” or…Feb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
Jack RinFoundationsToward a New Anarchism: Anarcho-DaoismRethinking the classical Daoist textFeb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
Jack RinFoundationsThe Ethics of Psychoanalysis: An Openness to OthernessDoes psychoanalysis have an ethics? What would the ethical disposition of psychoanalysis resemble? If we consider Freud’s decisions to…Dec 31, 2019Dec 31, 2019
Jack RinFoundationsTracing Hegel’s Spirit in Lacan’s Mirror StageThat Freud taxonomized and popularized the unconscious mind, we already know. He postulates that our minds are divided into the ego, the…Dec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019
Jack RinFoundationsOn the Will to Meaning. Faciality, Suffering, and FramingHow do we find joy when all external sources of happiness are deprived? Why do we persist in even the most appalling of conditions? Human…Dec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019