Thanks to Rowan for telling me about this — my sixteen-year-old self would have thought this was the coolest thing. Also, my thesis and all the other things I’ve written this year that’s been unposted should be posted before the middle of August. Hope everything is going well for all of you!

Sometime before the summer is over, I’ll publish all of my unpublished works from the past few years. Pinky promise! Hope everyone is doing well.

From Paul Moser’s “Skepticism Undone?” — [You can find Moser’s essay in Ernest Sosa and His Critics (edited by John Greco) where it figures as chapter 12 and takes up pages 135 to 144] Skeptics who question the reliability of belief-forming sources should not thereby question the reliability of all truth-indicators. They should not call for…

Hi — Moments ago, my inquiry found a place of rest. This place of rest is fleeting. It will be gone any moment now. I will decide if I continue with the inquiry or publish all the unpublished yield of my investigations over the past couple of months. Tell me what you want me to do and I will take it into consideration when I’m making my decision that will most probably be made before I fall asleep soon.

So, for the past month, I have mainly been writing a single paper. It is almost a couple hundred pages. It has to do with epistemology, more specifically getting around skepticism. I don’t know when I’ll be done with it. I do not want to pose any restrictions on myself in regards to time as I feel that will only make my writing suffer.

brakence, my favorite artist and the only artist who has never made a bad song just released his new album, hypochondriac, about five minutes ago. So, I figured I would listen to them for the first time and just let myself write as the songs go on. I’m quite excited! Reaction to “introvert” (yes it is really this good, I’m not being dramatic): …

11/30/2022 — [I want to clarify that as of right now I do not have any metaphysical commitments. This was mainly written because I realized I could make a joke using the term “mid” in it. However, one could consider it a possible response of the common sense epistemologist to the critiques…

11/30/2022 — [This was written for one of my classes] The senses give us information about things only as they exist in the present moment; and this information, if it were not preserved by memory, would vanish instantly, and leave us as ignorant as if it had never been. — Thomas Reid…

11/18/2022 — [This was written for one of my classes] Ignatius Reilly is a man whose being has “many facets” (254). As a man whose being has many facets, he has attracted people sheerly through the “singularity and magnetism” of his being (124). He is clearly a “profound thinker who has a…