by C. Walker The study of aesthetics bothers itself with one primary question, among others: what is beauty? For people all over the world, beauty means something seemingly different. Yet, there are things that we all consider beautiful. As well as this, it is not uncommon to hear the phrase … More Beauty: A Definition and Theistic Suggestion
Beauty: A Definition and Theistic Suggestion
Wittgenstein at Cornell: 75 Years Later
by Ethan Kovnat It was summer of 1949, and the Cornell University Philosophy Club was gathered in a small room in Goldwin Smith Hall. This group, an assorted collection of professors and graduate students, had gathered to discuss a paper by the eminent faculty-member Professor Gregory Vlastos on Kant’s ethics.¹ … More Wittgenstein at Cornell: 75 Years Later
A Subliminal Substitution: Beauty vs. the Sublime
by Christopher Tang Abstract The land ethic is a philosophical framework posited by Aldo Lepold that extends moral consideration to the land and all biotic creatures who inhabit it. This holistic approach designates the whole land as the overarching entity of moral concern. Interestingly, Leopold’s defining moral maxim includes beauty … More A Subliminal Substitution: Beauty vs. the Sublime
Dasein und Unsinn: A Critique of Heidegger’s Non-Materialist Temporal Epistemology
Written by Joseph Samper Finberg Abstract ”Quid est enim tempus? Quis hoc facile breviterque explicaverit? ” Augustine of Hippo 1623 years ago wrote, to this day it speaks to the enigmatic and elusive nature of time, a concept that has puzzled philosophers and physicists for centuries. In this article, we … More Dasein und Unsinn: A Critique of Heidegger’s Non-Materialist Temporal Epistemology
Error 404 Digital-Dasein not found: a modern investigation into Heidegger’s Being-towards-death
Written by Caleb Knight In 1976, 49 years after the publication of Being and Time,1 Martin Heidegger came to his own demise in the hills of the Black Forest. In the same year on the opposite side of the globe Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I, Bill … More Error 404 Digital-Dasein not found: a modern investigation into Heidegger’s Being-towards-death
Engagement with the Environment: Our Surest Recourse in the Age of Environmental Crises
Written by Junhyung Han Abstract In this paper, I contemplate ways to make people voluntarily care about the environment and endeavor to ameliorate environmental problems. I aim at justifying the conclusion that if people engage with the environment, they care about and voluntarily becomes responsible for preserving its integrity. To … More Engagement with the Environment: Our Surest Recourse in the Age of Environmental Crises
Three Poems
By Nathan Cook Meditation Accordion shades are drawn, but the sun still dances delicately into my room, illuminating the void created from the lack of artificial light. The sun’s footwork shines and pivots off the alloy of the back of my computer. The laptop presents a black screen but calming, … More Three Poems
Behold! A Mind!: A Defense of Emergentism Against Reductionism
By Sophia Gottfried “Behold! A mind!” The reductionist broke down the door to my academy with a bang. He struts in triumphant and throws down a wet, blobfish-like, object onto the floor with a splat sound. However, something smells fishy to me about this mind, as it does not appear … More Behold! A Mind!: A Defense of Emergentism Against Reductionism
Plato’s Beard and Bilbo’s Hairy Feet: Defending Meinongian Fictional Discourse
by Ethan Kovnat Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong’s view of ontology is rather problematic. This is by no means a unique observation; Meinong’s response to the Riddle of Nonbeing is very effectively refuted by W. V. O. Quine’s Man in the Doorway argument.¹ However, it seems to me that when we … More Plato’s Beard and Bilbo’s Hairy Feet: Defending Meinongian Fictional Discourse
A Computationalist Reply to Constitutive Panpsychism
Introduction For thinkers who want to avoid dualist models of consciousness, panpsychism is an increasingly attractive notion that claims phenomenal consciousness is a property that originates in microscopic physical constituents such as electrons and protons. While these particles are not held to possess the same phenomenal experience as humans do, … More A Computationalist Reply to Constitutive Panpsychism