What's one of your favorite things to talk about?
This depends on how broadly I define "thing," but if I restrict the definition to "topic that will keep my attention for longer than two hours," then it's probably phenomenology or related topics. (This is kind of weird since my degree was in mathematical logic, which is of course basically completely unrelated to those things, but some of my undergrad classes did focus on them.)
For instance, here are some things I've wanted to write posts about at various times:
Whoa, rubberhand illusion, you guys!
Woah, phenomenology, you guys!
Zombies!
Whoa, phenomenology and zombies!, you guys!
Experiential individuation
Furthermore, apparently we also know more or less the answer to why phenomenology came about in the first place, which is sort of like the beginnings of life, because philosophers in the 1870s decided that the self was the the hard problem in philosophy, so they started worrying about it more and more until the self ended up the central philosophical problem, and then they worried about the hard problem for several generations until people like Heidegger decided the self was not so interesting after all and then they moved on to other problems
That's not so interesting as it might seem, since we now realize that the self is like the "smartest" and most complicated thing and as such is hard to pin down in a sentence. What is actually hard is, for instance, explaining why we feel like (for instance) the zombie barber is not a barber, or (for instance) why consciousness is so hard to get a grip on (yet we have it?)
Ohhh the you guys! of all time
Cantor's theorem!
These are all the things I think about when my brain is idle, by the way. When it's fully occupied, it's thinking about the calculus of formal logic and the formalization of basic concepts of arithmetic, or, y'know, statistics or whatever.
The funny thing is that if I were a phenomenologist it would be very, very easy for me to become a philosopher of math, and vice versa. In math you're always explaining the same three or four things in new ways, and in phenomenology you're arguing about the same three or four issues using different words, and this makes the job of inventing the words much easier.
