“To do something well does not necessarily imply the ability to do everything else equally well. If you can do in one direction that which I cannot do, I may in another direction, be able to do that which you cannot do.”
– Frederick Douglass, “Self-Made Men (1872)”
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...
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This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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