Monday, January 21, 2008. Thursday, January 03, 2008. I just received word that Peter Hare died yesterday. Peter was a professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, where he taught from 1962-2001. In short, Peter was an exemplar of what a modern American philosopher should be.

Facts, no matter how convincing, rarely trump a good, solid dose of repetition. Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Or empty belief, are themselves the main source of perturbation and pain in civilized life, where more elementary dangers have been brought under control, since they are the reason why people are driven to strive for limitless wealth and power, subjecting themselves to the very dangers they imagine they are avoiding. Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Monday, August 31, 2015.

I was lonely back then. Awash in people and surrounded by friends nonetheless I felt alone. Yet if I ever tried to explain this all my words turned into a need; a need to be heard, to be understood, to explain. What is it to be right? Xerxes major fired anon.