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[While trying to get my C.V. in order for some university committee that wanted it, I stumbled across an article I had written for a journal called “Topoi” on the topic What’s to be done?. I think they asked a couple of hundred philosophers to write short essays. This was in 2006, but since I mostly deal with timeless topics, my views haven’t changed. So I thought I would recycle it as a Christmas blog, since it’s sort of cheerful and with respect to the Eastern APA, seasonal.==jp] Topoi provides an excellent expression of a view of philosophy that I share: Topoi’s main assumption is that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful activity, which constantly challenges our received views, relentlessly questions our inherited habits, painstakingly elaborates on how things could be different, in other stories, in counterfactual situations, in alternative possible worlds. Whatever its ideology, whether with the intent of uncovering a truer structure of reality or of soothing our anxie

Structured Procrastination Blog | Additional thoughts on procrastination, and life in general. Structured Procrastination Blog Skip to content Home April 9, 2014 · 9:59 pm Six Tips to Get Yourself Going by John Perry Procrastinators get a bad rap. Go through world history. Take away all the essays, works of art, inventions, and the like that people came up with while they were supposed to be doing something else. Wouldn’t be much left, I predict. We procrastinators are the engines of progress, the founts of creativity, who have made human culture possible, So there. Learn more on

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