Twenty years ago, on this day—26 November 2005—I posted the first essay on this blog. Today's post is the 647th essay (and the first one...

For a change of pace, I want to address another common misperception on Quora. These days there's a lot of hype about "going to M...

This is the third in a series of essays about abstractions in philosophy. Here, I continue the critique and extend it to another abstract co...

In the previous essay in this series, I made some fairly banal comments about abstractions from something like a nominalist point of view...

I've taken to spending some time each morning answering questions on Quora as a writing and brain warm-up. Over time, it has become...