Fierce quotes from Brilliant 17th Century Women Philosophers
Recently, I've been reading about early modern female philosophers. Despite some recent efforts - such as Project Vox, New Narratives,...
How Can I Make You Care?
If you care about making people care about what you care about, read on. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing us today....
Can we trust our intuitions?
Einstein said, "The only real valuable thing is intuition." Likewise, my mom said, "Always follow your intuition!" Well, if Einstein and...
This One Guy in Philosophy
For many of you, it may come as a surprise that philosophy is a mostly male discipline. I've always only had a handful of female...
The Scottish Sceptical Solution
With my move to the Scottish highlands getting closer, I'd like to discuss a famous Scottish philosopher: David Hume. He was one of the...
A Late Confession
At the time I was half expecting her to confess the truth, half wishing that she would not. When she stayed silent, I wasn’t disappointed...
To Judge or Not To Judge
Not unlike many people around me, judging others and their actions is something I do quite a bit - sometimes subconsciously, but many a...
Can we judge other cultures?
Or: do we have a right to judge other cultures? This is a question about relativism* that, I believe, underlies many issues and...
Fake news! What would Plato say?
In a world where alledgedly the lines between fact and fiction are blurred, and where fake news becomes harder to distinguish from ‘real’...
Why Wine and Quine?
Dear reader, I decided to start this blog now, as my gap year is slowly coming to a close, mostly because I miss studying philosophy. But...
