Philosophy Department at Hamilton College

https://mariannejanack.substack.com/p/remembering-forgetting-and-selfhood

Remembering, Forgetting, and Selfhood Oliver Sacks and Dasha Kiper

from one of our former students:

Commemorating Cook’s Coffee House Riot By Alex Lawson Syracuse should make a bigger deal out of January 1. That’s the date of the Cook’s Coffee House Riot—the delightfully weird event that birthed the City of Syracuse. Before 1848, what…

starring Alex Plakias

You’re Not the Only One Who Wants to Crawl Out of Their Skin at Holiday Parties. An Awkwardness Researcher Explains Why. To be human is to be awkward. But there are some situations where you truly just want to sublimate into dust.

Book XI's latest issue, including stories about annoying personalities, language, prayer, and paths:

Issue XIX — Book XI In  “Holy Gluten: The Righteous Battle Over God’s Grain” Claire Pellegrino tells us that bread and suffering have always been connected, and her essay is about the debates about gluten-free Communion wafers, oat matzoh, and which grains are sacred.  The life of a devout celiac is a difficult...

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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

https://writeordiemag.com/essays/writing-and-remembering

Writing and Remembering — Write or Die Magazine I. Plato’s Socrates tells the following story, which he says comes from “the Ancients”: “In the Egyptian city of Naucritus there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calcu...