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Uscinski on Conspiracy Theories, A Primer

Contemporary politics, Epistemology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

November 27, 2020/by Darrell Arnold

Joseph Uscinski's Conspiracy Theories, A Primer (Roman & Littlefield, 2019) is a helpful primer, providing, as Uscinski notes in the preface, not a complete...

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Is All Education Indoctrination?

Community Philosophy Forum, Epistemology, History of Philosophy, On Reason, Philosophy, Political Philosophy

July 7, 2020/by Darrell Arnold

The history of Western philosophy is generally taught with an emphasis on how philosophers upset uninformed prejudice and encourage individuals to think for themselves....

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Spinoza

History of Philosophy, Metaphysics

August 17, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Baruch Spinoza (1632-1637) is best known for identifying God with Nature. He does not see God as the transcendent creator...

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Francis Bacon and British Empiricism

History of Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

August 16, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS The best known of the British empiricists are John Locke (1632-1704), Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume (1711-1776). Locke...

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Other Sophists

History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Reason

August 15, 2019/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Other Sophists On various issues the sophists were clearly not of one mind. Callicles and Hippias of Elis both disagreed with...

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