# Philosophy

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## [‘Good Enough’: 2023 Year in Review](/content/2023/12/31/good-enough-2023-year-in-review/index.html)

Amidst a year filled with literary essays, the recent passing of philosopher John Lachs enables us to reflect deeply on mortality and why we should…

## [The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination](/content/2023/08/17/the-opposable-thumb-at-the-end-of-the-imagination/index.html)

Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.

## [Tender-Minded vs. Tough-Minded Thinkers](/content/2023/07/10/tender-minded-vs-tough-minded-thinkers/index.html)

Philosopher William James‘ concept of tender-minded vs. tough-minded thinkers helps us better understand what most informs our personal beliefs.

## [An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically](/content/2023/04/24/an-ironist-must-learn-to-listen-poetically/index.html)

While the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.

## [On the Something There Is](/content/2023/04/17/on-the-something-there-is/index.html)

Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.

## [Give Me Beta-Modernism, Instead](/content/2023/04/04/give-me-beta-modernism-instead/index.html)

If metamodernism means a future without tragic conflicts, maybe we’re better off with beta-modernism, instead.

## [Why We Won’t Ever Arrive at Truth](/content/2023/01/03/why-we-wont-ever-arrive-at-truth/index.html)

A defense of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James against the charge that their asymptotic approaches to truth and hope are juvenile.

## [Truth as Pragmatism’s Only Hope](/content/2022/11/28/truth-as-pragmatisms-only-hope/index.html)

Although some pragmatists argue truth is malleable and constantly changing, logician Charles Sanders Peirce asserts it is our knowledge of truth that is variable, not…