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Tag Archives: Ethics
What Should Philosophy Do? (Part 2)
Last week, we outlined four answers to this question, provided examples of each, and following a brief discussion of Comte’s Law of Three Stages and the rise of materialism as a philosophical dogma, brought our discussion to a tentative conclusion: … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Uncategorized, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged atheism, Auguste Comte, authoritarianism, Chinese room, Christianity, Derrida, Ethics, gender feminism, God, Hume's fork, John Horgan, John Searle, Law of Three Stages, libertarian, materialism, Milgram Experiment, Philosophy, solitary confinement
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What Is It Like to Be a Lost Generation Philosopher (Part 3)
[Continued from Parts One and Two] Given that you pursued a career in academic philosophy, any specific regrets? One big one from my early days. Not turning my MA thesis on Paul Feyerabend into my first book. The idea was … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Adjunct, Adjuncts, anarchism, angry white male, Careers in academia, Careers in higher education, Careers in philosophy, Chile, Descartes, Donald Trump, Education in Chile, Ethics, Feyerabend, globalization, Leopold Kohr, libertarianism, Lost Generation, Moving to Chile, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, philosophy of science, political correctness, political economy, Political philosophy, Portraits of American Philosophy, racism, radical feminism, STEM education
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Modern Moral Philosophy (Part Two—Is the Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle Adequate As the Foundation for a Systematic Morality)
In Part One (two weeks ago) we surveyed such questions as: are there such things as knowable moral facts, or is morality a cultural artifact? I argued that the former claim makes better sense of what we use ethical language … Continue reading
Posted in Libertarianism, Political Economy
Tagged anarchism, anarchocapitalism, elder care, Ethics, free market competition, free trade, harm principle, homo economicus, John Stuart Mill, libertarian, libertarianism, minarchism, moral philosophy, NAP, non-aggression principle, Oligarchy, On Liberty, our actions affect others, plutocracy, plutocratic oligarchy, political economy, property rights, protectionism, Rockefeller, statism, third party problem
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Modern Moral Philosophy (Part I, Being a Longwinded Inquiry into Whether There Are Any Such Things As Moral Facts, Preliminary to Our Investigation of the Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle (NAP))
Introduction: this post was inspired by a thread on Facebook in which I participated. It raised issues that couldn’t be handled without more depth than is possible in one or two already-lengthy comments. The main topic was the viability and … Continue reading
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