From today’s New York Times: David Brooks on the emergence of moral individualism The odd thing here is that we tend to be surprised and think something has gone wrong. If you start down the road of privatizing the good, as we did at the birth of Modernity, this is where you inevitably arrive. What’s … Continue reading
On page 12 of “The Problem of Objectivity” (in the 2004 collection Problems of Rationality), Davidson, in the course of arguing for a holistic understanding of the mental, says the following:
“This is what we ought to do and rationality ensures that we do it.” How does one show that ‘rationality’ is something more than a label for having done it?
In honor of St. Valentine’s Day, I thought it would be fitting to post the abstract for the paper I will present at the upcoming ‘Reasons of Love’ conference in Louven, entitled ‘Love and Order’. No form of human society, be it a family or a nation (or, indeed, a solitary individual whose present and … Continue reading
Sean Tevis, a forty year old self-described ‘information architect,’ suffered a setback to his bid to become the United States Representative from Kansas’ 2nd district on Tuesday, finishing third in that (rather red) state’s Democratic primary. As a New Yorker not paid to know the political preferences of Kansans in August, perhaps my mention of … Continue reading
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