I’m toying with the idea of writing a book about enlightenment. To help sort out my ideas, from time to time I may write chunks of that potential book on this blog. One of the ways we can clarify ideas is by choosing technical terms and defining them carefully. The word “know” I’ll give “know” […]
I recently got back in touch with an old friend from graduate school for the first time in 40 years. We’re in our late sixties now. Our conversation reminded me of the following event which I would like to tell you about. We were students at the University of Chicago in a department called the […]