Sophophilical Paperses Here is a short list of some of my 'more interesting' papers. Some of them aren't really philosophical papers, but are literary essays or research pieces that reflect my ideals. If you're not much into philosophy, you may not dig the use of abstract terms such as "mental faculty" and "potential person," but sometimes having a case-specific vocabulary is necessary to avoid the prejudice that might occur when more common terminology (aka "brain" and "developing human") is used. If you do study philosophy, I must apologize; some of these works reflect my views in their development, and are lacking in responsible argumentation to defend their assertions. If I ever go to grad school, I might actually write a disciplined thesis. The good philosopher believes in a set of ideas enough to justifiably defend them, while understanding that these ideas are always open to question, no matter how good the rationale (with rare absolute? exception). Reality as Relative & Not Relative to a Conceptual Scheme On Relative and Absolute Truths Creating Conceptual Schemes in Order to Relate to the Real World Normativity and Relativity of Identifying a Person Problems with Understanding the Nature of Mind Spinoza vs Leibniz: Comparison of Ontologies |