Prolegomena Paper: Kant and Hume’s Situationship
November 6 2025
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This is a paper I wrote in my Kant on Freedom and Knowledge class.
I'm still in this class so I will have another paper coming about Kant on Freedom.
For now this is an essay about Kant's view on the world post awakening from his dogmatic slumber.
It goes over how Kant differs from Hume and any tradeoffs Kant accepts with his solution.
I don't think this is my best essay but If you're really interested or need a refresher on Kant give it a read.
You can lmk of anything I got wrong about Kant through my contact page because I'm sure I got things wrong.
Piecewise Wholes Aren’t Enough
April 13 2025
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This is my final paper for my class on phenomenology and existentialism. It was a very
interesting class. We focused mostly on Merleau-Ponty, but we also dabbled in Fanon, Beauvoir,
Keirkegaard, and others. This paper is about how I thought Merleau-Ponty to be a good philosophers
although I didn't find him as satisfying or fitting at Beauvoir or Fanon. I think that I might have
been judging Merleau-Ponty a little harshly because I was also reading John McDowell and Jan Zwicky in
another class at the same time, and there is a lot of overlap; so there was a bit of a competition
for who made the most sense at the time.
Duck Season or Rabbit Season: Ethically It's Both
April 1 2025
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An essay I wrote in March 2025 about Jan Zwicky's book 'The Experience of Meaning'.
This was for my analytic philosophy class, and the topic was about the ethical part of the book.
'The Experience of meaning' is potentially my favourite book. Similar to my McDowell essay,
I remember being happy with this at the time but I spent most of the summer thinking about both
'The Experience of Meaning' and 'Mind and World' and I have many things I might say if I were to rewrite it.
Also similarly to the McDowell essay, it allowed me to distill a lot of thoughts that I had been wrestling with, and
those thoughts needed to be organized so that I could move onto the newer thoughts.
John McDowell and the Cure for Philosophical Vertigo
February 18 2025
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An essay I wrote in Febuary 2025 about John McDowell's book 'Mind and World'.
This was for my analytic philosophy class, and I believe the topic was specifically
about the intollerable oscillation. I now have a million other thoughts on this book
since writing the essay, but I remember being happy with this at the time. It allowed
me to distill a lot of thoughts that I had been wrestling with. Those thoughts needed
to be organized so that I could move onto the newer thoughts I wanted to think about.
Term Paper
December 15 2024
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An essay I wrote in december of 2024 for my analytic philosophy-in origin class. This class preceeded my analytic philosophy-in progress class, which was a continuation of this class and can be seen in my John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky papers.
This essay was me trying to weave together a through line with honestly too many philosophers for one paper.
In this essay I cover early and late Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Iris Murdoch, and Lorraine Code. At the time, this was my
most comphrehensive essay, and I think it was an important step in my philosophy writing progress.
This class sort of taught me what writing philosophy is all about. I didn't come out a master, but
after going back to some earlier essays I wrote at the start of this class, they don't compare.
