In this episode, Patrick S. O'Donnell, an independent researcher and writer, discusses his experiences as an independent scholar of philosophy, religion, and law. O'Donnell is well-known among legal scholars for his long history as a thoughtful and prolific commenter and contributor to many different legal scholarship blogs, as well as for his erudite and exhaustive bibliographies on a wide range of different subjects, from religion and eastern philosophy to marxism and the philosophy of mind. Among other things, he shares his intellectual history and reflects on how "bread labor" has informed his relationship to scholarship. You can read some of O'Donnell's scholarship here. And you can read a little bit about him in this blog post by Jeffrey Lipshaw of Suffolk University Law School.

Keywords: analogy, metaphor, analogical reasoning, precedent, cognitive science, pragmatics, semantics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind

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