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Monthly Archives: November 2011

On Learning to Read With John Sallis

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Today marked the last formal lecture of an epochal class on Plato’s Symposium with Professor John Sallis. He began our first day by stating simply that we would be reading the Symposium with attention. He then elaborated: we would be attending to the speeches (logos), as well as the deeds (ergon) and myths that came up in [...]

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Formulating the Thesis of a Philosophy Paper

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

This is not an installment in my series documenting the writing of a philosophy paper on Husserl, but rather a general observation first about academic papers in general and then specifically about philosophy papers. As you learned — as early as high-school, no doubt — an academic paper should have a “thesis statement.” In high-school [...]

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A Guest Post

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

True to form, having announced that I wouldn’t be publishing anything online for a while, I immediately accepted an invitation from the Maphman to write something for his blog. My guest post can be found here.

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Where I Have Been

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Reading, as a matter of fact. Well and happily into my report-the-progress-of-a-paper project, I realized that I had the deadlines for some of my classes mixed up. Turns out the Husserl paper is pretty much the last thing I have to turn in this semester and a paper comparing two Platonic dialogues is bearing down [...]

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…faults in writing…

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Faults in writing do not exist in isolation; like muscle pulls, they result in over-compensation, which causes a different problem elsewhere. From: Geoff Dyer

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I am…

Friday, November 4, 2011

… in high dudgeon regarding the terrible redesign of Google reader and the loss of its “share” feature. I invested a lot of curatorial energy there, and it displeases me more than anything else about Google that they’ve gone and messed all that up. What alternative do I have to google reader? Anybody know an [...]

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A Philosophy Paper Start To Finish: Pt. 4, Increments and Annotations

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

So today I worked through several of the paragraphs in Husserl’s third logical investigation. I also re-read various part of Experience and Judgment which I will be directly addressing in my paper — because I think it’s important to habituate oneself to the details of language and the precise order of argumentation in a philosophical text [...]

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