I’ve had a busy fall and am now in the midst of a busy Spring. I’m on sabbatical and writing. I’ve finished a new novel, The Vanishing Woman, and my hope is that it will be available in the...
I offer this for its soporific value, if nothing else. Who needs a white noise app?
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2017/09/26/thoreau-talk-here-i-am-economy-and-experience-in-walden/
The following words of Heidegger’s have been on my mind for the past couple of weeks. We all still need an education in thinking, and before that first a knowledge of what being educated and un...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2016/06/23/heidegger-on-an-education-in-thinking/
Accidents will happen; yes, they will. I wrote this little essay more than 25 years ago. I think it was my first–certainly it was one of my first–attempts to say much of anything about...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2016/04/18/accidents-will-happen-elvis-costello-as-philosopher/
Wisdom offers a piece of philosophical criticism, in this case, self-criticism. He takes what he is doing to be decisively influenced by Wittgenstein, but it does not live up to Wittgenstein’...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2015/05/30/wisdom-other-minds-i-part-2-philosophical-criticism/
I am linking an essay of mine that has been hanging out in my Huh? File. That is, the file in which I put things I have written whose merits and demerits are unclear to me, or so nearly even t...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2014/05/08/philosophical-investigations-and-three-kinds-of-illusion/
A confession (although my regular readers will likely be unsurprised): For me, many of the most perplexing philosophical problems relate to philosophers themselves. Here’s one thing I mean ...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2013/11/15/the-surpassing-strangeness-of-believing-in-sense-data/
Here is a draft of a talk I am to give soon. I was asked to present something that might inspire majors and non-majors, and to do something more like what I would do in a class than what I woul...
Here’s a draft of the opening paragraph of my new talk on Merleau-Ponty’s lecture, “In Praise of Philosophy”. The paragraph is meant to be a compendium of the topics the talk addresses,...
I find what Ed has written very helpful, as I said. One reason for that is because he clearly recognizes the difficulty of self-knowledge—that is, the conceptual difficulty about it (not the ...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2012/05/02/some-hesitant-thoughts-after-mooney/