Gun violence, advocacy, and the NRA
Suppose that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) funded research which found that individuals who…
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Why Rubio Is Wrong about Philosophy in 150 Words
“Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.” — Marco…
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A Nietzschean Defense of Ben Carson
How much difference does it make whether Ben Carson stretched the truth about his life…
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Social media, knowledge of others, and self-knoweldge
A recent Radiolab podcast relates an amazing story about Allen Funt, the creator of the…
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Ashley Madison, accommodation, and silencing
I recently read, with much interest, Jason Stanley’s How Propoganda Works and found it extremely…
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Left Lanes, Right Lanes, & Medians
Left Lanes and Right Lanes by Charles Osborne I shall try here to divide two…
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Does Science Advance?
Does science progress in a cumulative way? In other words, do later scientific theories build…
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Should the ethics of Presidential candidates matter?
The classical view on the relationship between ethics and rulership can be traced back to…
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The Bone that Changed China
The Famen Buddhist Temple (in what is now Shaanxi Province, in the People’s Republic of…
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A new multi-level hierarchy of ethics and morality
A new multi-level model of ethics and morality has recently been announced, as schematically depicted…
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The McDonalds-ification of Education
There is an approach to learning that is corroding education, especially higher education, in the…
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Watch Where You Point That Thing
The recent assassination of cartoonists of the publication Charlie Hebdo was deplorable. Producing humor that…
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Review of Iris Murdoch’s The Nice and the Good
This is a review of Iris Murdoch’s novel, The Nice and the Good (1968). Iris Murdoch…
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Ethical Relativism
“What makes a man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born…
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Philosophy Meets Literacy Through Positive Coaching
T. R. Girill Society for Technical Communication/Lawrence Livermore National Lab.trgirill@acm.org Philosophy Meets Literacy Through Positive…
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Obituary for Stanford Professor Emeritus David S. Nivison
David Shepherd Nivison, emeritus professor of philosophy, religious studies, and Chinese language at Stanford University,…