Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
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The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
The further we look into the future, the less certain we can be about our predictions and plans.
It is not a destination. It’s our ongoing life’s work as responsible adults.
Survival of the fittest versus compassion and cooperation in evolutionary theory and politics.
To be human is to be artificial.
Coping is not enough. We must strive to live.
In teaching students that all knowledge is constructed through their own interactions, we fail to give them satisfying answers about the world and its meaning.
Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict.
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At the center of neoreactionary thinking is a cluster of unworkable ideas.
As long as there have been philosophers, there has been thinking about morality.
Is moral expertise really a thing—normatively, theoretically, or metaphysically? All three major Western schools of moral philosophy seem to think so, including virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism.
Societal crises of self-confidence can result from distorted and oversimplified narratives.