Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

    From Quora, question and answer How should I get started with philosophy? I'm 15 years old. That is a very good time for it. You might want to try to define for yourself what kind of philosophy problem most interests you and cluster your readings (and your early manuscripts) there. Many young people are driven by social/political concerns. Can philosophy say something foundational about these concerns? Can it help us get a Big Picture into which the day-to-day headlines and debates will fit? If that is what you mean by philosophy, you might want to look to John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and older figures like Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke. Others are feeling a more existential angst. What is the point of even getting out of bed in the morning? Do my actions matter? Are they determined anyway, so that I am just a ping-pong ball bouncing around? If those questions are what philosophy means to you, I suggest the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a follow-up with the work of William...

 I've never involved myself in debates about the QWERTY keyboard versus alternatives. I will say, though, that it would be better to have "t" further away from "w".  On a different line, maybe?  This arrangement makes the typing of "not" for "now" or vice versa all too easy, I'm guessing that is the reason that Thomas Paine wrote "Now is the time for all good men...." In a first draft he surely wrote "It is now the time..." only to start worrying that some middleman would turn that accidentally into "It is not the time."  "Not is the time for all good men..." seems more nonsensical than "It is not the time"  so the latter would be more likely to survive as a typo than the former. And of course the now/not reversal is worse than nonsensical.  It produces a sensible sentence with a meaning exactly the opposite of what is intended.