On Hedgehogs, Koalas, and Other Animals
Outside academia, Isaiah Berlin is probably best known for his distinction between โfoxesโ and โhedgehogsโ based on Archilochus saying that โthe fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one…
Outside academia, Isaiah Berlin is probably best known for his distinction between โfoxesโ and โhedgehogsโ based on Archilochus saying that โthe fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one…
(This is part 8 of the โStages of the Anthropocene, Revisitedโ Series (SotA-R).) Earlier this year I found a serious error in the equations I was using to calculate warming…
(Originally posted on April 27. Major revisions on June 3, 2022.) In chapter 5 of A Buddha Land in This World, I wrote that until the sลซtras in the Pฤli…
Publishing is a slow process. I wrote most of A Buddha Land in This World (BLiTW) in the first half of 2020, but it took until April 2022 until it…
My new book, A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism, has just been published. Here is the abstract/back cover blurb: In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama…
Yes. โ Thatโs the short answer to the question in the title. An obvious follow up question would then be: By how much? โ Thatโs where things gets complicated. There…
Climate change is driven by carbon emissions. Almost everyone knows that, of course. What no one knows, on the other hand, is how much carbon we are going to emit,…
โA Cup of Teaโ is a short Zen story that is quite famous and popular among Western (Zen) Buddhists. Itโs a bit of a peculiar story, however, as I hope…
According to Karl Jaspers, philosophy arose in the โAxial Ageโ as a kind of critical reflection on myth and tradition. Nowadays, there is widespread agreement among historians of ideas that…