What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all
Read the full article which is published on Arts and Letters Daily (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the...
What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively...
Cass Sunstein: “To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn’t a force in history. It’s not Voldemort”
The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the...
