My third ever entry on this blog had to do (in part) with René Descartes and his famous Cogito, ergo sum.[1] I have referred back to that entry many times in discussions here about epistemology, how my belief in my own existence is (after believing in logic) the second most secure of all my beliefs.[2]While I highly respect Descartes - he's the ( Read more... )

Dr. Paul Bloom returned to our campus to speak his third out of four lectures. Previously, he spoke on "moral circles".[1, 2, 3] His topic this time around was "Religion Is Natural ( Read more... )

"I take it I've told you about my condition."
"Only every time I see ya."The above is one of the popular quotes from one of my very favorite movies (more on favorites later), Memento. Besides being a thinking movie, which I prefer (more on my ideas of entertainment value later), I could relate very well to this movie, because I have shared Leonard' ( Read more... )