Category: Philosophy

  • Being okay with “not knowing”

    Being okay with “not knowing”

    Richard Feynman, a famous physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, in an interview, was asked, from a fundamental standpoint, why two magnets either attract or repel one another. Feynman articulated a response that had little to do with magnets, but with the nature of asking “why” anything happens.  He said that he could have…

  • Chess should be in the Olympics

    Chess should be in the Olympics

    The rudimentary argument for why chess isn’t in the Olympics is because it doesn’t require overt physical exertion. It is a mental sport, not a physical one. So what? I want to watch chess. The distinction of the body and mind, the physical and mental, originates with Rene Descartes’ formulation of Dualism in his book…