TKIN: Philosopher Encounters Modern Life

I was sitting around at home on a weekend day feeling dispirited and trying to figure out what to do next. Someone suggested that I might th...

Sometimes I read an advice column that advises people to save money by avoiding general or monthly fees in favor of a more pay-as-you-go app...

Given the role that the issue played in the US election last year, I've been really interested to follow the recent news about the coal ...

Pietro Longhi, 1701-1785, The Elephant, via Wikimedia Commons I spend a lot of time in a somewhat eye-roll-y state of mind, and sometim...

When I first heard about the "pharmabro" guy who bought the rights to a drug and then immediately raised the price from $13.50 ...

From this ABC news story , 2011 I'm teaching a course this semester on philosophy of social science, and one of the most interestin...

Don't you think it's kind of weird from the economic point of view "exercise more" could be a preferred weight loss str...

BodyAttack: doesn't it look like fun? There this group exercise class I love called BodyAttack. If you told me when I was a kid that...

From the US Dept of Transportation website I took a long drive last week, and since I hate to drive I spent a lot of time pondering the...

Thomas P. Barnett, "In the Heart of the Ozarks" (MU Museum of Art and Archaeology), v ia Wikimedia Commons Last Friday afte...

 I'm always wondering in what ways the people of the future will look back at us and wonder WTF we are thinking. What will be the phr...

Justice. I don't know what this is or where it's from but I like it. Wasn't it just recently that justice was considered one...

At the Eaton Centre where I sometimes like to hang out , there's a giant ad set up for the Cirque du Soleil's new "Kurios...

Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1652), Still Life. Via Wikimedia Commons You heard about Soylent, right? That new thing where you mix a powde...

Mary Cassatt, Woman Reading in a Garden, via Wikimedia Commons This post is about the great fun crisis of the twenty-first century. You...

Last term I taught a course in philosophy of economics for the first time. Early on, we read some passages from Adam Smith's Wealth o...

A few years ago I saw that movie Gamorrah about the organized crime syndicate the Camorra based in Naples, and I still remember vividly h...