Philosophy and Cows

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Probably the most interesting thing I have done is having lived over-seas in Prague and the Czech Republic for seven years. Prague is a beautiful city and living in a post communist Central European country provided a very different take on the matters and the questions of life that can be invaluable in the study of philosophy. Part of doing philosophy is questioning assumptions and living in a very different part of the world helps spotlight some assumptions that you might not have seen otherwise. My first three years in Prague I taught at an American university, in English. I had almost no American students and was thus able to meet lots of Czechs students in addition to Russians, Slovaks, Poles and a handful of students from the Middle East, Far East and nearly every post-Soviet-bloc nation. In my third year in Prague I started teaching on-line and have been teaching on-line ever since. Now that I have returned to the US I have started teaching some land-classes again but plan on continuing with on-line education as well.

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I have taught philosophy in colleges and universities since 1990 and at least partly online since 2000. In 2002 I published a book entitled "Some Thoughts on Thinking" which is based upon a series of popular lectures I gave in the mid-to-late 1990's. The focus of the book is on how to sort philosophy from religion, theology and science, the job of philosophy and how to sort arbitrary from non-arbitrary beliefs. My second book was published in 2015, "A Crisis of Belief, Ethics and Faith," and if you liked my first book you should love the second one. It presents a self-corrective and contemporary system of philosophy and attempts to explain how we might go about forming our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves, our world and how we should properly conduct ourselves in a justifiable and non-arbitrary fashion.