What is the value of a philosophy which has no power over life? And so I return to Virginia. I have been thinking much about the value of philosophy -- going again through the morass of difficulties I have with doing this study and this work in an...

A little bit of silliness, but its dear to my heart ... some of my favorite cats-and-their-people portraits:

Some gems from Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy: On consequentialist moral theories: G.E. Moore also thought that the forward-looking type of consideration was fundamental, but he allowed things other than satisfaction -- such as...

I'm reading Bleak House at the moment and it is a true joy. Today, as I read Esther's narrative with tears in my eyes (always, always Esther makes me weep), I realized something. When Bleak House begins and Esther begins it all seems so quaint and...

I'm in New York this weekend, having the most incredible time at a conference I feel incredibly fortunate to have been indirectly invited to. I have so much to think through and write about-- the women philosophers of the early modern period who I...