Philosophaster on “Persuasive power versus intellectual integrity”
I found this very nice piece on a forum. In philosophy, there is something called the "principle of charity." This is the idea that in a debate, we should address…
Article: Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
Read. Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration Some unusual copyright views for a creative industry member to have but worth considering. Ought artists to be paid like…
Review: Martin Gardner – Fads and fallacies in the name of science
Wikipedia about it. Download Martin Gardner - Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Thanks to the person who made this available to me via email. You know who…
Review: Joshua D. Greene – The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality and What to Do About it
His website. Download The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality and What to Do About it (hosted here, it is also available from his website). In it…
Theories of normative ethics and moral intuitions
I have been wondering something. When one is theorizing about which theory of normative ethics is correct, what is one to do about moral intuitions? Most people seem to agree…
Making sense or perhaps not
Whenever I talk with continentals they keep getting angry at me. Because I continually claim not to understand what they say. An example. Some days ago I was at a…
Unfinished essay
It's not done but I need to share it with a person, so I'll just post it here for now. Some analyses of the broad notion of begging the question…
Re. Ken Binmore – Game Theory – A Very Short Introduction
Page 2 “Even when people haven't thought everything out in advance, it doesn't follow that they are necessarily behaving irrationally. Game theory has had some notable successes in explaining the…
So… your university wants to close some (humanities) department?
Well, one university did and someone wrote a nice open letter to the president of it. It's worth reading. Bonus points if you can spot the etymological fallacy in it.…
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