Random Thoughts

I'm in the home-stretch for the semester. Two more weeks of classes and then final papers are due. I'm nearly done with my paper for philosophy of science. I'm using Michael Polanyi to argue for the rejection of the traditional understanding of objectivity as well as a conception of 'sobjectivity'* to replace objectivity such that it can still be usable without having the difficulties of traditional objectivity. My paper for Hume is looking at the possibility of sympathy producing sentiments in us that will lead to actions similar to justice in situations where justice is not expected. This paper has a solid outline that needs to be filled in now. My final paper is for my independent study on Wittgenstein and Iris Murdoch. It'll be something great and interesting, I'm sure, probably involving religious belief or something along those lines.

In other exciting news, this semester is my final semester of coursework. This summer will be my second set of comprehensive exams, and in the fall I'll be teaching and working on my prospectus for my dissertation. Things aren't really slowing down, which is probably good.

Mario Kart for Wii comes out this Sunday. I'm not sure there is a worse time for it to come out, personally. This week will be a full week of studying in hopes of being able to justify getting it, but it is quite possible that the fun will have to wait a couple weeks till the papers are done.

I'm still reading the N.T. Wright book Surprised by Hope and hope to finish it here in my moments of relaxation the next couple weeks, after which I'll post some sort of review up here on it. I'm really enjoying it and would encourage people to take a serious look at it.

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*I learned from Chad Meister that anytime you want to reform a concept in such a way that it closely resembles the previous concept, simply add an 's' to the front of the word for the concept you're reformulating. I know this is an old philosophical move, but I never saw it used as much as I did by Chad in class.