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I’ve completed all but defence of my thesis for a masters in philosophy. My disciplinary interest is in the acquisition and maintenance of our beliefs. But I also have a background in the study of rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy of language. Political rhetoric particularly interests me.

• Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Retrieving Your “Lived Experience” From the Baggage Reclamation Centre.

  By pammentations on April 1, 2023 • ( 2 )

  This Pam-toon was inspired by two curiosities. I wondered how coherent it would be for an amnesiac to recount her “lived experience” of her forty years as a member of a marginalised group. And I wondered, given the following vignette,… Read More ›

• My New Podcast.

  By pammentations on March 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  I’ve started a podcast: Pam’s Galaxy of Conceptoids: Essays and observations from intracranial space. The first several episodes will be essays I’ve published on this blog. If interested, you can listen to the first episode here.

• Tacitus Quote

  By pammentations on March 7, 2023 • ( 6 )

  “Which is the more pitiful I cannot decide — being accused because of a friendship, or accusing a friend.” Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Oxford World’s Classics. Translated by J.C. Yardley. Introduction and notes by Anthony… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. XLX

  By pammentations on January 28, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Resistance is not raising up an army and trading fire, by that time too many have needlessly suffered — as will many more. Resistance is inviting someone you’ve been taught (and are expected) to hate to your table and treating… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. XLIX.

  By pammentations on January 28, 2023 • ( 0 )

  CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN IN INTELLECTUALLY SAFE SPACES

• 3 Holiday Photos.

  By pammentations on June 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

• Thoughtlets. XLVIII.

  By pammentations on May 19, 2022

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• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. In Matters of Love and War — And All Matters In Between — There is No Dearth of Armchair Psychiatrists

  By pammentations on March 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. And from this, an entire political theory.

  By pammentations on February 24, 2022 • ( 1 )

  Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011.Part I, Chapter XIII, 3. (p 122)

• Bread and Circuses

  By pammentations on February 24, 2022 • ( 0 )

  (Originally posted Oct. 24, 2020) Somewhere around the second century CE, the Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase ‘bread and circuses’ which has come to mean placating one’s populace with cheap bribes to distract them from their political grievances. Here’s… Read More ›