The Great Distance from “Cancel Culture” to the Banning of Critical Race Theory
The Right continually writes of the threat of the Left's alleged "woke" cancel culture. But not only does the Right ...
The Virtue Ethics of Thomas Aquinas
RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) is known for having successfully integrated Aristotle's teaching with that ...
Aristotle’s Ethics
RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS For Aristotle ethics and politics are fundamentally intertwined. He understands both domains functionally. The human ...
An examined ethical life
RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS An examined life Socrates famously noted that "the unexamined life is not worth living." But ...
Philosophical Quotes
I thought I'd take the opportunity to offer some of my favorite philosophical quotes. I've found these helpful in the ...
Some Thoughts On “the Backfire Effect”
In my earlier post, Election Recounts and the Backfire Effect, I refer to the heuristic that has been somewhat controversial. ...
The Varying Faces of Fallibilism
Many philosophers of science since Charles S. Pierce have touted fallibilism as basic to the methodology of science. Writers on ...
Uscinski on Conspiracy Theories, A Primer
Joseph Uscinski's Conspiracy Theories, A Primer (Roman & Littlefield, 2019) is a helpful primer, providing, as Uscinski notes in the ...