JoeMay 8, 20202 mincoronavirus, sensationalism run amokLet's begin with a few facts. Business people have an interest in making money, i.e., taking money out of your pocket and putting it in...
JoeMay 3, 20204 minIdentityIn Logical Properties, a book I thought would have had a greater impact than it has had in philosophy, Colin McGinn endorses that...
JoeApr 28, 20201 minCoronavirus, some personal thoughts on misinformation pandemicWhenever I write a blog post or respond in a comments section of a post online or a news story online, I worry that people will interpret...
JoeApr 27, 20204 minCoronavirus, explaining some anomalous informationThere are some unusual features of the coronavirus that have yet to be fully explained by epidemiologists, microbiologists, public health...
JoeApr 26, 20202 minCoronavirus, failure of leadershipIn light of 45's dangerous comments during his Thursday night press conference, there is no other option for this President than to...
JoeApr 24, 20203 minCoronavirus, Lysol will kill youI never intended to write about the dangerous effects of ingesting or injecting disinfectants like Lysol, but we're living in a "new...
JoeApr 23, 20202 minCoronavirus, cure versus the diseaseThe discussion about the "cures being worse than the disease" has continued through this week, and it is striking how many people fail to...
JoeApr 22, 20202 minCoronavirus, hysteria and overhypedThe call by protestors for reopening non-essential businesses, including restaurants, pubs, department stores, and malls has been...
JoeApr 21, 20203 minCoronavirus, open for businessProtestors took to the streets in a number of US cities over the weekend and on Monday with one message: reopen non-essential business...
JoeApr 16, 20204 minCoronavirus, what is it?Coronavirus has been around for a long time. This is a fact that few people understand or appreciate. Only its new strain has caused the...
JoeApr 14, 20203 minCoronavirus and epistemic vigilantismThe Coronavirus pandemic and the isolation or lockdown protocols that came along with it have given rise to good and bad behaviour. ...
JoeApr 13, 20205 minCoronavirus, inexplicable hysteria Otherwise rational and intelligent people, of late, have become unhinged by otherwise normal behaviour. Here's an example. A colleague...
JoeApr 11, 20206 minBreaking the anaphoric chainImagine the following type of encounter: Jones: The Red Sox lost the 1967 World Series. Smith: That's true. Jones's remark is the...
JoeApr 11, 20204 minCoronavirus, Party Zero & Bluff, New ZealandThere was a 40th birthday party in Connecticut at the beginning of March before the institution of soft isolation measures in the state...
JoeApr 9, 20204 minCoronavirus, personal protection equipment in the public sphereDiscussion of personal protection equipment ("PPE") in the news media has centred on PPEs for health care workers, but relatively little...
JoeApr 8, 202021 minEmpiricism, Consilience, and Experimental PhilosophyImportant work has already been done to show how empirical and a priori work together in the academic setting. A frequent criticism of...
JoeApr 7, 20205 minCoronavirus, gaining some perspective on the descriptive statistics reported by news mediaThe tidal wave of descriptive statistics reported by the media really fails to clarify the severity of coronavirus. About the...
JoeApr 6, 20204 minCoronavirus, distinguishing fact from fictionPerhaps the greatest challenge for the general public---which includes me---in this crisis is the inability to distinguish fact from...