Erosophia

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  • On Bisexuality

    by Jason Stotts I think it’s strange how bisexuality has been demonized, marginalized, and even taken to be no more than an illusory state that one passes through as a position between the two legitimate categories of homosexual and heterosexual. Frankly, I think that’s asinine. I think that there are more bisexuals (Kinsey 1-5’s) than…

  • SoCal Insanity

    by Jason Stotts Apparently it’s illegal in California to call a spade a spade: A federal judge has ruled that a Mission Viejo history teacher [James Corbett] violated the First Amendment by telling students that creationism is “superstitious nonsense.” In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna says James Corbett’s comment in the…

  • Playboy and Ayn Rand

    by Jason Stotts For those of you who have never read it, Playboy is now offering free access to their interview with Ayn Rand. It’s very good and I highly recommend taking a look at it.

  • Sex with Minors?

    by Jason Stotts One problem with the lack of knowledge of sexual issues is a loss of clarity regarding these issues. Indeed, there is a very rich vocabulary in English to cover most every sexual possibility and to clearly differentiate one from the next. Unfortunately, people frequently do not know these terms and end up…

  • Kinsey and Sexual identity

    by Jason Stotts For those few of you who have never heard of him, Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) was an American sex researcher and a pioneer in the field of sex research. He is best known for his two books “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948) and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” (1953). But,…

  • Ruminations on Meta-Ethics

    by Jason Stotts Teleology is the field of philosophy concerned with achieving ends (telos is Greek for “end”). In teleology, one judges the efficacy of the means in question to achieve a particular end. For example, if my goal is to write a sentence on a piece of paper, then a pen is “good” for…

  • How to Lie with Numbers

    by Jason Stotts Most people don’t realize how easy it is to lie with numbers as they don’t understand statistics or the difference between a causal connection and a correlation. For a great demonstration of this, see this essay where Stephen ironically proves that exercise causes obesity. Also, XKCD chimes in on the issue of…

  • Aristotle and Causation

    by Jason Stotts Aristotle develops the idea of the “four causes” in his Physics (III.3.194b16) and Metaphysics (I.3; II; V.1,2; ). The four causes are: Efficient (“the primary source of change or rest”), Material (“that out of which a thing comes to be”), Formal (“the form or the archetype”), Final (the “end or that for…