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The New York Times Memorializes Daniel Dennett Without Reading Him
The Gray Lady's obituary of Dennett wasn't just wildly unfair. It got his basic philosophical commitments wrong.
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Norman Finkelstein's Reservations About Abortion
I'm a big fan of Norm Finkelstein, and his discussion of abortion rights in his book "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It!" made me think--but it…
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Richard Dawkins's Nonsense Makes Me Miss the Not-Quite-New Atheism of Quentin Smith
Instead of being about politicized anti-theism as a front in the culture war, perhaps public atheism could have been about...atheism.
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Consistent Time-Travel Movies: A Quasi-Philosophical Love Letter (UNLOCKED)
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Why I Don't Buy the A-Theory of Time
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Why I'm Still a Marxist: A Response to Tibor Rutar
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Marx & Rawls vs. Nozick & the "Land Back" Left
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David Hume vs. the UFO Whistleblower
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Time Travel Loops, Causation, and the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
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Marx Class Starting on May 12th
Never got through Capital? Here's your chance!
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Formal and Dialectical Logic
Is "dialectical logic" a competing theory of the same subject as the kind of "logic" that's taught in university textbooks?
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Marx & Rawls vs. Nozick & the "Land Back" Left
Is justice about turning back the clock to some past distribution of property or creating a more equal society going forward?
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Peter Hitchens vs. Christopher Hitchens: Can Civilization Survive Without God?
In late 2010, the Hitchens brothers debated the link between "civilization" and belief in God.
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Susan Wolf's Critique of Moral Saints
In a classic paper, Susan Wolf makes a compelling case against the ideal of moral saintliness. If she's right, how does that fit with the moral urgency…
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Full Automated Palestinian Luxury Communism from the River to the Sea?
Some thoughts on the uses and limits of maximalist demands.
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John Stuart Mill on Justice and Utility
Let's take a closer look at Mill's case against non-utilitarian standards of justice.
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