Pinnedlucabeetles, boxes, and private languageLudwig Wittgenstein is famous as one of the most eccentric, genius, and idiosyncratic philosophers of the 20th century.Oct 31, 20234Oct 31, 20234
lucaincomprehensible scaleImagine a billion dollars. I would bet that what you’re picturing in your mind, that massive stack of notes, totals closer to $10,000…Jun 161Jun 161
lucaHow do we judge intelligence?What makes one man more intelligent than another? Let us begin by dismissing a few commonly cited notionsMay 14May 14
lucathe comfort of disinterest.Some time in the last thirty years, it became cool to be passionless.May 51May 51
lucaCan a dualist account of mental states be defended?Dualism is a broad theory of the mind which, at its core, claims that the mind and the body are two distinct entities — that there is a…Mar 42Mar 42
lucaan analysis of ‘functionalism’ as a philosophical theory of mindPhysicalist theories of mind claim that all mental states are correlative to or supervenient on physical states. Functionalism is the…Feb 28Feb 28
lucaReading slumps and smoking addictionsThe last time I got into a reading slump, I went straight to the bookstore and bought myself a new book — Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, to…Feb 243Feb 243