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Hard to tell (on my mobile screen anyway), but this was written by John Perry, philosophy professor at Stanford [1]. I've been a huge fan of his ideas on this f

by golfer 10y ago

Hard to tell (on my mobile screen anyway), but this was written by John Perry, philosophy professor at Stanford [1]. I've been a huge fan of his ideas on this for ~20 years. He has a number of other light essays. His website appears down at the moment though. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_(philosopher) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_(philosopher)

jeron 10y ago
non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_(philosopher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_(philosopher)
curuinor 10y ago
I had the interesting honor of contacting Edward Snowden so Perry and Ken Taylor could get a radio interview with him once for their philosophy radio show. He does cool stuff
- captainlego 10y ago
  If I'm not mistaken, a portion of the interview you mention can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57sPn6pQzUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57sPn6pQzUM I'm not sure if the full interview is available elsewhere without a paywall.
vic-traill 10y ago
To avoid MeTooism, I'll agree and note that my own favourite among JP's varied, tongue-in-cheek, yet thoughtful essays has always been The Case Against Golf [0]. [Posting webarchive.org link as the HN attention seems to have dropped the site] [0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160211223333/http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/the-case-against-golf/ http://web.archive.org/web/20160211223333/http://www.structu...
- ikeboy 10y ago
  Submitted to https://www.reddit.com/r/nongolfers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nongolfers/ :)