Marianne Janack is the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY USA. She is the editor in chief of Book XI: a Journal of Literary Philosophy. She has a PhD in philosophy and an MFA in creative writing. You can read more of her work in her newsletter on Substack. Email: mjanack [at] hamilton.edu
Website: https://hamiltoncs.org/janack/
by Marianne Janack Visiting a grocery store forces you to face irrationality. Should I buy the Jax, which I love? Or should I refrain? The store doesn’t carry my cat’s favorite brand of food anymore. Should I buy something that’s sort of like it? Go to another store a short drive away that carries it? …