My son, Arthur, was born last week. After a hectic last week of the term teaching a beginning design class, followed by a flurry of visitors, graduation open houses, commencements, and family dinners, I am now OFF for the summer and able to just relax. I’m able to reflect a bit on the […]
The most intelligent thing that has been said about the question of metaphysics was Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 7th proposition in Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (condensed version here, full version here), which stated that “whereof one cannot speak, one must pass over in silence.” The Tractatus was an attempt to logically outline the limits of knowledge and language. […]
Cecil Kleakins is an eccentric academic known for appreciating noise, researching invisible topics, and taking long baths. When he is not feeding grapes to his leopards, he adores a finely crafted claret and, like the Duke of Burgundy, Philiip the Bold, disdains the ignoble Gamay.
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