I soon realized that there were a lot of favorites and a lot of categories and areas that I have an interest in.  Also, some of my posts took a while to load and that seemed annoying when anyone wanted to get to my site.  Thus, I have decided to make a separate page to particular posts that have stood out as some of my areas of interest.  These are projects that I’ve been thinking about or something that I found really insightful.  I will update this as interests continue.

Aesthetics

• The Strange Case of the Rejuvenated Artist.
• Can one know something is beautiful, but not experience it?
• I look at Sheila Lintott’s and Sherri Irvin’s article, “Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Feminist Reclamation of Sexiness” parts one and two.

Animals

• Monkeys understand fairness and cooperation.

Benatar: Better Never to Have Been

• In part one, I went through Benatar’s argument on why coming into existence is a harm.
• In part two, I went through Benatar’s argument on just how harmful coming into existence is.
• In part three, I went through Benatar’s anti-natalism.
• In part four, I went through Benatar’s “Pro-Death” view of the abortion debate.
• In part five, I went through Benatar’s argument on why the humans should become extinct.
• In part six, I went through his concluding remarks which entails certain objections and Benatar’s replies, suicide, death, religious views, and optimism vs. pessimism.

Economics

• Kaynes vs. Hayek Round two
• Book Review: Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Ethics

• Public Morality and Personal Morality.
• Demi-Vegetarianism.
• Stoic áskēsis from the Modern Stoicism blog.

History of Philosophy

• Two Socratic Teachers.
• Epicurus on Politics: So What?
• On Discovering Nietzsche’s Values

Humor

• Looking at Benatar’s Ethics of Offensive Humor parts one, two, and three.

Living and Dying

• Methods on Dying
• The Benefits of Dirtying One’s Hands.
• Some Observations on Loneliness, Sociality, and Bars.

Logic

• Why “Well, it’s my opinion” fails.

Love, Marriage, and Relationships

• Various Philosophers on Erotic Love, Flirting and Marriage.
• Various Philosophers on Relationships: Polyamory, the Family, Friendship, and Singledom.
• On Keeping and Dissolving Friends.
• Book Review: Marriage, a History:From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
• Dealbreakers and Gamechangers.  What are the dealbreakers when it comes to leaving a relationship? What about gamechangers to remain in a relationship?

Mental Health

• Coping Mechanisms

Middle East

• Theories on the Middle East Conflict

Politics

• Learned Helplessness
• Locke has a Strange Way of Acquiring Property
• “Fighting for our Freedom” is simply rhetoric
• The Dark Knight and the State of Nature

Religion

• Eternity and Death.

Sexuality

• Various Philosophers on Sex.
• Contract vs. Communitive Sexuality.
• Charts on Sexual Attitudes
• Looking at Patricia Marino’s “The Ethics of Sexual Objectification: Autonomy and Consent” parts one, two, and three.
• Satisfying Sexual Desires
• Sex and Expectations
• Sexual Autonomy and Sexual Consent
  • The Minimal View and its problems
  • The Ideal View and it’s problems
  • Complexities of Sexual Consent – Background to my view
  • The Realist View (my position)
• Sexual Desires, Mind-Body Dualism, and Somatic Practices
• Tennis and Figure Pair Skating Sexual Models. I look at sociosexual orientation and develop two models to explain restricted and unrestricted types.
• Why Sex Education Needs Philosophy

Vegetarianism

• My position on Demi-Vegetarianism

The Will

• Can you exercise the will?

Writing

• How to Write Well