Some form of the word “reason” appears more than 100 times in The Consolation of Philosophy.[1]Thank you to The University of Oslo’s Bibliotheca Polyglota website, whose…
The Consolation of Philosophy culminates by proving that God’s omniscience does not prevent humans from exercising “free will.”[1]Trans. P. G. Walsh for Oxford World’s Classics,…
I’ve written about William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis” twice before, first, for a session at the Medieval Academy Conference in Philadelphia on…
It’s a well-known story among the people who like these kinds of stories. First appearing in medieval chronicles by Ralph of Coggeshill and William of…
Among the now famous feline musings of the first chapter of Derrida’s The Animal that therefore I am is this one, about the cat’s name:…
Fables are short, self-consciously fictitious narratives generally furnished with a moral interpretation, either before the fable (a promythium) or after it (an epimythium). They often travel in…
My first post for my “Reason, Freedom, and Animality” seminar explored the Stoic paradox that “all fools are slaves, and all wise men are free”…
Everything we can think of wants to be free. Boundaries yearn to blur; rigor aches to relax; structures shudder, hoping to be undermined. Flows will…
When I was still a grad student, I got my blogging start at In the Middle, in 2006, as a guest at what had started…
Amid the discussion in Goussin of Metz’s Image du Monde of various kinds of water — fresh, salty, black, poisonous, and so on — is…
