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Minerva says that the frequency with which the journal will release issues isn’t yet known—it will depend on the rate at which the editors receive quality submissions.
They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish.
The concept of an open society embodied a present reality that Karl Popper feared could be lost.
Rationalists, in short, are a group of people who picked up the liberal, academic, philosophical traditions of Western civilization when institutions like the New York Times decided to abandon them.
Van Leeuwen and Herschbach wrote a statement on Facebook reiterating that the review process had been carried out properly, and declaring, “Efforts to silence unwelcome opinion… are doing a disservice to the community.”
A philosophy of optimism was central to the flourishing of the American project. But it’s also useful to consider whether insisting that success and greatness lie around every corner can become a maladaptive response to problems that are complex and brutal.
They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.
It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do.
If some faction of philosophers are able to declare an issue decided—over screams of dissent from other philosophers—then we can expect others to follow the same playbook.
Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all.
Clearly it is possible to do politics in philosophy without doing political philosophy.
Science is not the only form of knowledge. There are valid non-scientific ways of approaching reality.
The ascendancy of technical reason and instrumentalization, Heidegger thought, generated highly inauthentic individuals who were unable to live meaningful lives.
Without a healthy mix of a conservative and liberal center, the poles of left and right are much more likely to tilt toward the extremes.