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Leibniz’s Boots

Leibniz’s Boots

Gottfried Leibniz was one of the smartest men of his age. And that says a lot considering he lived during the European Enlightenment. He was a master of mathematics, philosophy, and science, among other subjects. He invented calculus, having defined its rules simultaneously with Newton but publishing nine years earlier (which […]

2022

2022

Well that was a year. I guess it was an improvement over the past couple years. Covid is largely under control. Though I’m currently at home sick with it. We also didn’t have a violent insurrection to overthrow the United States government. That’s something. Though we are still seeing the […]

Will Twitter Fail?

With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or three months severance pay, most people will take the pay. Employers often overestimate how much their employees […]

2021

2021

Well that’s it for 2021. It wasn’t great, but it was unambiguously better than 2020. We had vaccines. No presidential election. I completed my Master’s. And no viral videos of celebrities singing Imagine. Anyway, here is my playlist of 2021 music. https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7pqLyuD1XqKngAV7dt0oVj?utm_source=generator

No, Kant is not a “Woke” philosopher

No, Kant is not a “Woke” philosopher

17th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant was not a “woke” philosopher. This should be obvious to anyone with even a basic understanding of philosophy. Why would anyone think otherwise? Well it seems to have started with this paragraph in a Washington Post editorial about Critical Race Theory. Critical race theory, Guelzo […]