Yeah, I think that's a good way to put it. They are often very clever, usually well-read folks; at the same time they are emotionally stunted in more ...
Parts of this article are interesting - as a currently practicing academic I am sympathetic to aspects of this but hesitant on others. To be sure: the...
Just a quick note: "command system" isn't really a widely used definitional approach - certainly not on a philosophical level (academically or otherwi...
Ah, you referenced Bernie Sanders so I assumed you were from the US. In either case, the statement still applies. Canada's taxation as a percentage of...
There's an odd contradiction here. On the one hand, I get sense that you are concerned about the recent tendency to label a variety of disparate posit...
Honestly, I think the approach you ended up taking is exactly right, or more appropriate to the actual "doing" of philosophy at the very least. "Toolk...
I am going to firmly disagree with that. Back in 2011 or 2012, right around the time the second edition came out, I was TAing a class that used that a...
Obviously we do not have a definitive answer to those questions (in fact these days the "ideal society question is pretty silly amongst political phil...
That's probably not true. A lot of Marx's thought is incredibly systematic, rigorously historical, and well thought out. The piece referenced in this ...
There are a few different things going on in this selection and the text as a whole. You're probably not wrong to say we're "swept along" in a natural...
You know, it's funny: when I started teaching ethics a few years ago I was quite a bit more in favor of consequentialist approaches and the standard m...
Well it's not the hypothetical nature of the trolley problem that I believe bothers most critics - as I mentioned it's the distance from more common r...
Thank you, I appreciate it. Without going into too much excruciating detail: I'm in academia; I am currently a research fellow and lecturer for a univ...
One of my undergraduate degrees and of one my master's degrees were in philosophy. Honestly it's an incredibly useful field, but was not sustainable i...
Given the heavily religious overtones of both of those blogs and the leading structure of the question, I'm going to selectively choose to read your q...
I suppose that's true, but only in a sense. Again we're mostly back to square one if we're talking about generals and civilian killing zones, eh? How ...
Not to de-rail (no pun intended) this discussion at all, but a noteworthy point here: these sorts of thought experiments are under fire by some contem...
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