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The Purpose of this BlogI'm

The Purpose of this Blog

I'm starting this blog to record some of my thoughts on philosophy. Philosophy used to be a passion of mine as an undergraduate (although for one reason and another it's not what I ended up majoring in while in college), and as I'm considering going back to school, philosophy is one of the subjects that I'm thinking of pursuing. Unfortunately serious philosophy, particularly of an analytic bent, is not something most people, even most intellectuals, have much patience for so at the moment I lack a community with which to discuss some of the issues that interest me. Actually, one of the reasons to persue a degree instead of following my usual course of autodidacticism is precisely to have a community to bounce ideas off of.

While I'm kicking the the tires on this idea, I figure it will be helpful to have a place to write some of my thinking down, and a blog's a good place to do it: more formal than just talking to myself or jotting notes, less formal than a real essay or paper. Eventually I might try to turn some of my ramblings into an essay or essays, but for now it's just an aide-mémoire. Posted by joshua at May 12, 2003 10:33 PM