Taking a break

I have been getting sick of writing about philosophy lately. I just don't find that I have anything to say. I've lost interest in what I've already said, to be able to collate it into some paper or series of papers. Part of the problem is definitely that I tend to think that truth is simply uncontentious in the first place. If something is true, it generally isn't very interesting, and if it is interesting, then it tends simply not to be true. Over the past few months I wrote much about ethics that interested me, but I fear that to that extent it simply has not been true. The notion that a real moral is a more and a real ethics is an ethos is interesting, but I don't see how it could be true. The analogies between social progress and Kuhnian science were also interesting. But at the end of the day, they just didn't seem to be independently plausible.

I can't believe what I'm hearing. What about the free will problem, or deontology versus consequentialism? I thought that you had a good argument with regard to subjectivity and objectivity in ethics, and the two relevant articles would make a decent short paper.

Well, maybe I just need a break. The next book I have bought is fiction—Jennifer Government, by Max Barry— and it is a charming bit of escapist fluff. It is also a satire of globalisation, so there's still something of interest for me to think about in my own time. It has a very Douglas-Adamsy sense of the absurd, but also with an edge, like RoboCop. Just what the doctor ordered, I think.