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by Gail White.
Why did we kill Hypatia?
Was philosophy that big a threat
to the Christian faith?
We managed to combine it with Plato,
why not with Plotinus as well?
Was it because she had beauty
as well as intellect?
Was that reason enough
to scrape the flesh from her bones?
Maybe it was because if asceticism
doesn’t make you fall in love with God,
it can make you in love with yourself.
Maybe because we were blind
before we put out those eyes
that now I will always see.
by Exangel
by Exangel
by Bruce E. R. Thompson. You might suspect that I didn’t write this essay myself. Perhaps I simply asked ChatGPT to write it for me, slapped my name on it, and submitted it as per usual. Sometimes, when I teach philosophy, I ask my students to write papers. Like other teachers, I worry that student […]
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by Bruce E. R. Thompson. “If…then…” statements—or conditional statements—are made up of two component statements. The full conditional statement asserts that the truth of one component statement (called the antecedent) is a sufficient condition for the truth of the other component statement (called the consequent). For example, clouds are necessary for rain, so, if we […]
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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. Sometime around the year 1890, Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of American Pragmatism, changed his name to Charles Santiago Peirce – or Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce, or sometimes just Charles S. Sanders Peirce. The reason for this name change is not definitively known. There is no strong reason to think that […]
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by Bruce E. R. Thompson. There is no person more unglamorous than a philosopher. Investment bankers can be glamorous; computer programmers can be glamorous; even dock workers and ditch diggers can clean up nicely and be glamorous. But philosophers are pretty universally despised, and logicians most of all. Philosophers cease to be glamorous the moment […]