On Teaching Bad Ideas
Fighting bad ideas requires diligence, not censorship.
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hack, hack
Excuse me… It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Life’s been moving quickly these past, ahem, five months. Let’s see. Well, most of my time has been spent working. Non-stop, it seems, but that’s really not true. Still, my life is dominated by the demands of eleven-seventeen and teaching at Lakehead. eleven-seventeen is going well. Too […]
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Well, I suppose there’s good news all around: Piers has been alive six years without seriously hurting himself, so we celebrated. Lobster-shaped chocolate cake with us during the week, and then lots of friends and family on the weekend. I’ve been hired to lecture a full-year section of Introduction to Philosophy at Lakehead University for this […]
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I received an email from the department chair today saying that it will be late in May before I hear about the recent sessional postings. I’m pretty laid back and objective, and so I’m usually a content person, but waiting for the department’s decisions is seeming like a cruel test. (I can’t actually ‘fail’ this test, but […]
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Not just a great song/album by Marvin Gaye (brother, brother, brother…), but a partial explanation of why it’s been some time since my last post. I’ve been busy. (No, really. Sometimes I say that, but this time I actually mean it.) You see, even though the bay is still frozen, my life has been once […]
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