The ball of wax and the bitten apple
The wax argument is a classic rationalist exemplar from Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes describes a ball of wax recently taken from a hive: it still smells faintly of […]
Category Archives: Dissertation Discards
Link Buffet: Bravura Performances
Heads up! I enjoyed the junk food soigné Instagram of Chef Jacques la Merde so much (linked here and here) that you can probably imagine how delighted I am to learn […]
Hegel on the difference between men and women
In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel explores the role of family and marriage in the stability of the state. For Hegel, the critical element of a marriage is opposite sexes which […]
Search Term Sampler: Why do certain foods seem to be gendered?
Some intrepid researcher was led to my site by Googling this phrase: gender connotations to food So glad you asked! I’ve been working on a chapter on that very topic. I […]
This is not a scene of eating
I’ve been going back over drafts of my first few dissertation chapters, written a couple years ago before my rollercoaster ride of a career shift. I’m trying to rework them […]
