Notes on Craft: Francis Bacon, “Of Delays”
I want my writing in 2020 to demonstrate far more attentiveness to craft. How do writers create sentences their readers want to quote? How do they give them ima...
Category: philosophy
Strategies for Students Who Have To Write About Philosophy
tl;dr: 1) start personal 2) read around / think around–if it feels too narrow a topic, it is too narrow 3) they say, I say–find opinions to work wit...
Wittgenstein, “Philosophical Investigations” 2: Blocks and Slabs
[Note: In my Introduction to Philosophy class, I start with Wittgenstein, precisely because he pushes us to explain what we normally take for granted. In the &#...
Plato, “Apology of Socrates” 19b-c
[Note: Blogging more about lesson plans because “course goals” and “course objectives” do not quite capture the conversation I’m t...
“What is Philosophy?” 8/23/19
[Note: I’m preparing for my classes next week and writing out lecture materials. I googled “What is philosophy?” and appreciated all the answe...