Posted in Life of a Student, Philosophical Meandering on October 9, 2007 | 14 Comments »
had to read some stuff for class the other day on whether or not black judges and female judges could be impartial.
yup. that’s what I said.
and, of course, I harkened back to my summer of researching and writing my thesis. all kinds of stuff came spilling out about how the dominant class always thinks they [...]
Posted in Controversial Commentary, Philosophical Meandering, Vegetarianism on September 15, 2007 | 18 Comments »
and so, the other day, I met this person who in the normal course of bar-room conversation said, “I’m anti-vegetarianism. I believe everyone should eat meat.”
[stunned silence, even from the other carnivores present]
someone said, “Why would you be anti-vegetarianism?”
says she: “I grew up on a farm.”
[like that's an excuse. and of course, further proof of [...]
Posted in Feminism, Life of a Student, Philosophical Meandering on August 14, 2007 | 6 Comments »
one of the ways I like to write papers is to read a lot of papers. I read voraciously every article I can find on the topic in question, and make detailed and copious notes. Then, I compile those notes, study them closely, and make connections between them until I have a little family tree [...]
Posted in Feminism, Philosophical Meandering on April 30, 2007 | 28 Comments »
Some of you know that I am partial to something called Standpoint Theory. (In fact, that’s what I’m writing my thesis about.) It is about the most sensible piece of philosophy I have encountered in my entire undergrad. I (heart) standpoint theory.
I’d like to throw out an excerpt for you to read, from a work [...]
Posted in Life of a Student, Philosophical Meandering on April 22, 2007 | 26 Comments »
well, things are slowly wrapping up for me and my BA. Two weeks ago now I had my last actual classroom class of my undergrad. My last exam of my undergrad. I won’t see all those same faces anymore in all my courses. Friends are moving, getting into programs here and there, getting apartments and [...]
Posted in Philosophical Meandering, Race Relations on April 1, 2007 | 24 Comments »
I wrote recently about white racism, and the post stirred up a lot of stuff for a lot of people. One of the things that kept coming up was that I was “redefining” the words “racist” and “racism,” and people didn’t like that - they wanted me to come up with another word for either [...]
Posted in Philosophical Meandering, Random Ramblings on March 9, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Max just wrote an interesting and challenging post about identity. I responded, but my comment was becoming mammoth, so I decided to just make it into a post and link it back. So here goes.
for me, identity is a constant struggle, to find who I really am among the multiple pressures: who my friends and [...]
Posted in Philosophical Meandering on December 16, 2006 | 26 Comments »
I wandered over to KC Sheehan’s blog this morning and found this post about objective truth and the law. It got me to thinking, since I had a recent discussion with my dad about moral relativism. So I thought I’d write a post about it.
objectivity vs. relativism is one of my favourite philosophical problems (along [...]
Posted in Feminism, Philosophical Meandering on September 4, 2006 | 89 Comments »
you know, the more I think about this false consciousness stuff, the more I think that where it applies most clearly is to the ruling class, those benefitting by social structures that oppress others. (I know, this isn’t a new insight and is represented in Marxist literature.) Internalized oppression is a phenomenon that isn’t to [...]
Posted in Philosophical Meandering on September 2, 2006 | 8 Comments »
I’m sick of Darwin. I mean, Darwin was a genius, he devised our modern understanding of biology, and that’s great and all, but I’m sick of people using Darwin as proof of the end of biological development. You know, maybe Darwin wasn’t right about everything. Like the fact he basically ignored social homosexual behaviour in [...]
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