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Platonism for the masses

Monday, February 4, 2008

After starting college, I slowly became disconnected with the Christian faith that had been an influential part of my life in high school. It wasn’t due to the fact that I fell into the collegiate life of hedonism and simply abandoned all things good and holy. My loss of faith was a gradual [...]

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Subversive language and the role of philosophy

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

“I am writing a book.” This is not as creative, interesting, or impressive as it actually sounds, so in my day-to-day interactions I like to just leave it at that. “I am writing a book.” If pressed for details, I’ll reveal that it’s a Korean history book. The rights to this [...]

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On favoring complexity

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The latest round of criticism for the postmodern thought camp, perhaps surprisingly, isn’t coming from the anthropologists and historians and sociologists–the people who probably have the most to lose if we actually take what postmodernism is saying and apply it accordingly. It’s actually coming more from the hard sciences. Alan Sokal’s Intellectual Impostures [...]

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