On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”
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Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
An essay on Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
Minds, Brains, and Science
Does John Searle, in his book Minds, Brains, and Science, succeed in explaining how mental phenomena can be nothing over and above neural phenomena and yet be caused by neural activity?
Sir Gawain
This is from an English lit. class; it was written on February 10, 1993 … Sir Gawain and the Green Knight What makes a man a hero? Where lies the line which when crossed changes a mortal man into a legend? Is it at the altar at Canterbury? in the Minotaur’s labyrinth? or is it… Read more »
Meditations on First Philosophy
But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the image of something entails that everything which I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to that thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of God?
Blake – Urizen
If Blake was not simply stoned out of his mind, then what explanation can there be for this troubling work?
Keats – This Living Hand
You can’t eye can’t I can’t they can’t she can’t he can’t it can’t why can’t why can’t eye don’t no. Y’no? It’s im-poss-ib-al. If there’s one overwhelming iota that I’ve been shown by some auricle at some distant point in my youth, it’s that things that are written are written and things that aren’t… Read more »
Brains and Behavior
Logical behaviorism tries to solve the problem of other minds by showing that behavior is the effect of mind states. By examining behavior closely enough, says the logical behaviorist, it is possible to know mental states of others … In his article “Brains and Behavior” Hilary Putnam attacks the school of thought known as logical… Read more »
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
“I got the regular stuff about race and color and pride and prejudice and the sound and the fury and the cultural implications … but what about me?”
The Paradox of Popularity
I took a class in the Fall of ’94 called Desire and Power in Western Literature. I hated the class and I’m pretty sure the professor, Dr. Snodgrass, didn’t like me very much. I wrote this rambling, terrible excuse for a term paper, in November of that year. It is titled “The Paradox of Popularity:… Read more »
Coleridge and Wordsworth
In which I try to, “Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.” (1994)
VW
How lame! Here is a little something I wrote in my senior year of high school. Through the wonders of modern technology, it is now posted here for you to read. I wrote this one day instead of paying attention to Miss Bowman’s English class just to see if a girl named Karin France would… Read more »