Filosofy: Do you like philosophy, if so who is your favorite philosopher

I do, and BC is a great place to do it. Elsewhere on campus there are lots of fans of Kant and Kierkegaard and Husserl and Aquinas. But you’re asking me. I have a real affection for the pre-Socratic philosophers whose work mostly survives as fragments. It makes them look hyper-focused on one tiny thing. I kinda like Xenophanes, who said that if horses could paint their gods they would paint them as horses.https://bit.ly/bc-horse-gods

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.