The Role of Politics in Academic Philosophy
Clearly it is possible to do politics in philosophy without doing political philosophy.
Oliver Traldi
· 6 min read
Philosophy
A collection of 234 posts
Why We Shouldn't Bet on Having Free Will—A Reply to William Edwards
It makes no more sense to believe in a numinous “will” that subverts the laws of physics than to accept a god for which there’s no evidence. Any reforms of society should begin by accepting the unalterable truths of nature.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 6 min read
Quillette Podcast 42 – Yale Professor Nicholas Christakis on What Evolution Can Teach Us About Resolving Conflict
Listen onSpotify Jonathan Kay talks to Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, about his new book Blueprint and what evolution can teach us about overcoming conflict.
Quillette, Nicholas Christakis
· 1 min read
Against Scientism—A Rejoinder to Bo and Ben Winegard
Science is not the only form of knowledge. There are valid non-scientific ways of approaching reality.
Aaron Neil
· 8 min read
Why We Should Read Heidegger
The ascendancy of technical reason and instrumentalization, Heidegger thought, generated highly inauthentic individuals who were unable to live meaningful lives.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy
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.
Tristan Rogers
· 8 min read
Secular Humanism is Not a Religion
Staddon makes an oddly tendentious argument for the religious character of secular humanism.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 9 min read
Why We Should Read Nietzsche
My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that?
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
The Inevitable Clash of Politicians and Bureaucrats
Western States have, over the past 150 years, created bureaucracies without which much of what we all tend to take for granted would not work—or at least during a transitional period of uncertain length, would not work as smoothly and efficiently as we are used to.
Jakob Heidbrink
· 8 min read
Has the Postmodern Revolution Come Full Circle?
This new orthodoxy arrogates to itself divine authority to make truth claims on the basis of consistency with its asserted principles, and these are held to be immune to disproof or falsification by reason or evidence.
Colin Turfus
· 7 min read
Respect, Rights, and Freedoms in an Era of Identity Activism
Standard gender pronouns are not an honorific or a mark of respect, they are simply an instrument of categorisation that emerged with the evolution of language.
Don Trubshaw
· 6 min read
Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion.
John Staddon
· 6 min read
Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy
The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.
Galen Watts
· 7 min read
Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury
Loury has taught at Brown University for over a decade, an institution where pleas for American patriotism are likely to be summarily dismissed. So why does he insist on making them?
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
· 14 min read
On the Value of Truth
Very few of us can actually deal with too much truth, so we rarely enquire too deeply into the justifications for our beliefs.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read