“A profession makes one thoughtless, therein lies its greatest blessing. For it is a rampart behind which one can lawfully retreat when one is assailed by commonplace cares and scruples.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 537
Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (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...
My new book, Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025)—co-authored with the psychiatrist Kasia Kozlowska of the University of...
philosophybits: “I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my...
In C.P. Snow's day, literary intellectuals were the cultural elite. Now the power dynamic has been reversed: STEM dominates the...
“We lose so much when we demand measurability of things that are difficult, if not impossible, to measure — education,...
