A Philosopher Explains Moral Realism
An invited speaker asked me to explain moral realism to him. He said he had never really understood it. This is my attempt. Thomas Sowell wrote…
An invited speaker asked me to explain moral realism to him. He said he had never really understood it. This is my attempt. Thomas Sowell wrote…
Iain McGilchrist in The Matter With Things refers to a study where subjects were asked to evaluate two scenarios. One described a woman giving a friend a…
Iain McGilchrist is a philosopher, psychiatrist, and neuroscientist with a key interest in brain lateralization, the division of the brain into right and left hemispheres and the…
“In 1800, half of all those born died as children; two centuries later, almost none did. More and more people who would not have survived in the…
What follows is a real dialogue exchange. Names have been altered except for Richard Cocks. “If determinism is true, it makes no sense to speak of someone…
Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film. Brian Danoff, Lexington Books, 2020. Brian Danoff continues the effort of illuminating our understanding of…
No matter which class I am teaching, for quite some time the first reading assigned has been an article on Goedel’s Theorem. The reason is to emphasize…
Naturalism, physicalism, and materialism are synonyms. They are names for a truncated metaphysics that omits any notion of transcendence and divinity. Someone might try to take dualism…
Please see Henrik Syse's TED Talk (TEDxTrondheim), "Money and Morals," on YouTube. It is available here.