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Monday, June 06, 2011

On Robert Pirsig Archive

These are posts that are a bit dated (for various reasons).

Language, SOM, and the Pathos of Distance

Dynamic Quality as Pre-Intellectual

Excavating SOM

Towards a Narrative of SOM

Notes on Experience, Dewey, and Pirsig

Begging the Question, Moral Intuition(s), and Answering the Nazi

Pirsig, the MoQ, and SOM

Philosophy and Biography

Quality as Archimedean Point

Suggestions About Morality and the MoQ

Midwestern Megalomania
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