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Epidurals and Pains in Childbirth: Why Do Arguments Start and Stop Where They Do?
People often claim that they’re appealing to reason in argumentation, but the way they reason frequently reveals more about them than the truth. Put another way, an argument often says more about your inward passions, sensibilities, and imaginative world than … Continue reading
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Tagged aquinas, atheism, child birth, critical thinking, epidurals, Genesis, God, pragmatism, reason, the Bible
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Does Critical Theory Kill Aristotle or Does Aristotle Kill Critical Theory?
Within the humanities, contemporary critical theorizing typically entails left leaning political commitments accompanied by some line of attack or qualification on Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle—his idea that every communicative act necessarily requires three things: an author or speaker (Greek: ethos), a … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotle, authors, critical theory, literary theory, pragmatism, reading, writers
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In the Free Will Debate, Does the Truth Matter?
According to the New York Times this morning, researchers have discovered a curious correlation between belief (or disbelief) in free will and behavior: [W]hen people doubt free will, they do worse at their jobs and are less honest. This raises … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur schopenhauer, atheism, critical thinking, determinism, free will, God, materialism, philosophy, pragmatism, psychology, truth
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Adam Kirsch Reviews Zeev Sternhell’s New Book on the Enlightenment v. Romanticism
Are you an Enlightenment universalist, a brooding Romantic, or a Rorty-like Pragmatist trying to split the difference? Regardless of your answer, a new book has just come out with a very definite point of view on the question (the author … Continue reading
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How I Combine Richard Rorty’s Atheist Pragmatism with My “Spiritual Agnosticism”
It ain’t easy, and it requires a bit of Kant and Kierkegaard to get there, but below is what I believe at this point in my life, and how I have arrived at believing it. First, here is what I … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, being, God, john dewey, philosophy, pragmatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, richard rorty, the ontological mystery, truth, william james
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What’s Atheism Good for? Ctd.
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I Love Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty on “Truth” (with a capital “T”) v. merely human democratic justification via rhetoric and persuasion:
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Prometheus Unbound 