“I believe that decisions are made by neurophysiological processes in the brain,” says Steven Pinker. No. Processes don’t make decisions. People make decisions. And they make decisions for reasons. And… Read more »
This is from an interview with Michel Foucault in the mid-1970s: Interviewer: You seem to have kept your distance from Marx and Marxism; this was a reproach that was being… Read more »
My “gender identity” is the subjective view I hold about my “gender,” which is the range of expressions I exhibit of my “gender identity,” and the objective existence of my… Read more »
Claiming that my sense perceptions can deceive me implies that they are at least generally reliable. Else how would I know I was deceived? The concept of being deceived by… Read more »
If it is a fact then it cannot function as the source of a normative claim. After all, you can’t get an ought from an is. So the adherent of… Read more »
At first glance it may seem silly to assert that you can’t believe murder is wrong unless you believe in God. But that’s not the right question. If we are… Read more »
Keep in mind we are far deeper down the hole than we were in CS Lewis’s day. In 2020 subjectivism is firmly established as the reigning public philosophy, and you… Read more »
The distinction between “gender” and biological sex is question-begging because the concept of “gender” already assumes that such a distinction exists. To invoke “gender” (or its ambiguously related concept, “gender… Read more »
Let’s kick things off with Augustine, who beat Descartes to the punch by more than a millennium in expressing what is in effect the Cartesian “cogito, ergo sum.” But rather… Read more »