Apropos
This is my writing-place. There is no About page. There are just a bunch of articles. If you don't know where to start, try one of the notable posts listed further down.
You can get in touch by writing me at contact AT erichgrunewald DOT com.
Notable posts
- Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review about health effects of plant-based diets
- Animal Testing Is Exploitative and Largely Ineffective about animal ethics in research
- The Devastating Power and Heartbreaking Pain of Truly Changing Minds about scout mindset among Latter-day Saints
- Does It Smell like Pollocks in Here? about bullshit in contemporary art
- The American Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation Makes No Sense about the superiority of the British style
Programming
- Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia about moral systems modelled in code
- Four Ways of Not Writing Software Bugs about avoding programming errors
- Using Scheme to Find the Median of Two Sorted Integer Lists about a solution to a coding problem
- Code Purity and Principles about cleanliness and best practices in programming
Philosophy
- Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard about animal ethics, Kantianism and utilitarianism
- Two Inadequate Arguments against Moral Vegetarianism about considerations on price elasticity and supply chain buffers
- Auderico about our duties to inanimate objects, in dialogue form
- Paying for a Service, II and III about a Kantian consumer ethics
Art
- Strictness of Logic versus Openness of Logic about Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler and the symphony
- How Can One Tell What Is Beautiful? about objectivity and subjectivity in art
- Interview with Corentin Boissier about Romanticism, Modernism and composition in music
- Mysteries of the Unknown and the Unknowable about conundrums, mysticism and H. P. Lovecraft
- Networks of Meaning about meaning in life, in art and in the works of Gerald Murnane
Effective Altruism
- Why Does the Western Left Worry More about Local Poverty than Global Poverty? about cross-border wealth redistribution
- Interview with Lucia Coulter about her work with the Lead Exposure Elimination Project
History/society
- Problems with "Eating Animals" about veganism and systemic change
- Interview with Olle Häggström about reason, COVID-19 and academic freedom in Sweden
- Two Accounts of the Armenian Genocide about eyewitness reports of the Medz Yeghern
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