“In order to estab­lish a sys­tem­atic rela­tion­ship, or cor­re­spon­dence in time, from one event to another, it is first nec­es­sary to des­ig­nate an arbi­trary point upon a chrono­log­i­cal scale….” –David Neelin, “The Mean­ing of Chronol­ogy” * “In West­ern music, the orga­nized rela­tion­ship of tones with ref­er­ence to a def­i­nite cen­ter, the tonic, and gen­er­ally to […]

Is Truth obso­lete? This ques­tion has had philoso­phers up in arms since it was first seri­ously posed, and is the prompt to which the last sev­eral decades of epis­te­mol­o­giz­ing can be traced. Nor can we find the answer on the lips of our philoso­phers. To look there, after all, would be to com­mit the same […]

I. THE CASE Philoso­phers would do well to employ with greater fre­quency the metaphor. Did I say hier­ar­chy? What I really meant, was lad­der. And yes—in this par­tic­u­lar and seem­ingly inverted order. Fur­ther­more, the synec­doche may be use­ful in por­tray­als of con­cepts typ­i­cally left untouched, i.e. treated as “highly con­tro­ver­sial.” This inge­niously mul­ti­far­i­ous lit­er­ary device, serves […]

“From Coher­ence to Con­ver­gence“ selec­tion from Project Wild­card: Unpack­ing the role of Art in the search for knowl­edge, wis­dom, and moral agency *   *   *  We begin with one query: How do I know what’s true? In epis­te­mol­ogy, propo­si­tions func­tion­ as the vehi­cle for belief justification—such that the “form” of a given propo­si­tion assists in our judg­ing of its […]

As a Chris­t­ian Exis­ten­tial­ist, Kierkegaard main­tains that Christianity—the medi­ated rela­tion­ship through which man must always engage with the divine—cannot be approached from a stance that is indif­fer­ent to exis­tence. If exis­tence pre­cedes essence in accor­dance with his phi­los­o­phy, the same can be said for Kierkegaard’s views on Chris­tian­ity. Fur­ther­more, the exis­ten­tial prin­ci­ple that the individual […]