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William Payne wrote a new post, A Open Letter to Art Goss and the BC Curriculum Advisory Committee, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
I expect you and the CAC are quite busy approving new Gen Ed ratings for transfer courses as part of our ongoing Pathways work. I can understand the desire for expediency with a workload of this scale. And so I […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, The White Replacement Theory, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 week ago
The idea that liberal elites are trying to change the electoral dynamics of America in favor of Democrats by racially diversifying the country has wide currency on the political right. We should note at the […]
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nina.alaghemand@bellevuecollege.edu changed their profile picture 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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md.ryan@bellevuecollege.edu created the site bloglab 4 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Amartya Sen: Identity and Violence, on the site W. Russ Payne 4 months, 3 weeks ago
As a child, Amartya Sen, Nobel prize winning economist and philosopher of social justice, witnessed the Hindu-Muslim riots that accompanied Pakistan’s partition from India. His analysis of identity and violence […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Freedom!, on the site W. Russ Payne 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Locke wrote at a time when it would have been easy to miss the role of social systems and how unfair these can be. But aside from issues of fairness in our social systems, it’s worth noting how big a job it is to […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Family debates about religion:, on the site W. Russ Payne 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Sounds like an interesting family life. First off, the issue of whether there is or isn’t a God is not a subjective issue. Either God exists or God doesn’t exist, but either way, it doesn’t depend on how anyone […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Nothing Personal, it's just Reasoning, on the site W. Russ Payne 7 months, 3 weeks ago
When someone else offers you reasons to change your mind, you should be convinced by those reasons if they are good reasons. That’s not exactly the same thing is being convinced by the person. Nobody likes to be […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical thinking Note: Are we Perpetrating Fraud against our students at BC?, on the site W. Russ Payne 8 months ago
Imagine a college that claimed to teach biology as a general education outcome. A very large number of course across campus taught by a a great many faculty claim to teach this gen ed outcome. And yet only a tiny […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Thank's for you effort, Mr. Brooks, on the site W. Russ Payne 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Opinion | How to Destroy Truth – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
But this is not what I’d hoped for. You exaggerate the gulf between fact and value here. The stories that animate our lives are mere propaganda […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Getting Clear on Truth and Rationality, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year ago
Let’s start with the modest metaphysical assumption that we all live on planet Earth. This means we have a shared reality. One that is populated with various and sundry objects (or better, containing stuff that c […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, From Skepticism to Inquiry, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year ago
One of the hazards of teaching philosophers like Descartes and Hume is that some students are too willing to embrace the skeptical claims and sit content with not being able to know. The idea that “It’s all just […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Post for students: True for me, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 1 month ago
I’m not sure what it is for something to be true to a person. For a person to believe something is for them to take it to be true. So maybe that’s what people have in mind when they talk about something being […]
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Megan Kimball wrote a new post, Spring 2021 Faculty Resources, on the site Instructional Meanderings 1 year, 1 month ago
(Email: April 8, 2021)
Welcome back and Happy First Day of Spring Quarter!
Hard to believe that one year ago we started our first fully remote quarter. So much has happened in that year, and we still h […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Note to Jack, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 1 month ago
One of the joys of having an open-source text out there is occasionally getting pleasantly surprised with who it reaches. Glad you’re finding my Intro worthwhile. In an introduction to philosophy I’d rather hope […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Against Cruelty, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 2 months ago
A popular view in our culture is that people who do wrong should be punished as a matter of retribution. Retribution is holding a person responsible by treating them according to the standard they set for […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Note on Russell's "Value of Philosophy", on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 3 months ago
We humans are very prone to suffer from a psychological predicament we might call “the security blanket paradox.” We know the world is full of hazards and like passengers after a shipwreck we tend to latch on to […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Problems in Western Philosophy, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 3 months ago
The big discoveries in philosophy are more often problems than new ideas. People have been thinking about philosophical issues forever and philosophers have entertained a super-abundance of seemingly good ideas. […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Cancel Culture, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 4 months ago
Cancel culture has taken lots of criticism recently, and in so far as cancel culture means hastily judging people without trying to understand them, I’m on board. But for the same reason I worry about the […]
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