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William Payne wrote a new post, New Critical Thinking chapters, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 week, 5 days ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Family debates about religion:, on the site W. Russ Payne 2 weeks, 5 days 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 3 weeks, 1 day 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 1 month 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 3 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 5 months, 1 week 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 5 months, 2 weeks 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 6 months, 2 weeks 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 6 months, 2 weeks 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 7 months 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 7 months, 3 weeks 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 8 months, 1 week 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 8 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 1 week 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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William Payne wrote a new post, Another Moral Relativism Post (and DCT for good measure), on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Cultural norms often go far beyond morality. Morality has nothing to say, for instance, about whether men should grow beards or women should wear veils or makeup. So what is accepted or disapproved of in a […]
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Robert Viens wrote a new post, Resources for Discussion Difficult Topics, on the site Instructional Meanderings 9 months, 2 weeks ago
(Email: January 14, 2021)
As a follow up to recent discussions about addressing difficult topics and current events in your classroom, I’m sharing a short list of additional resources. This is by no means c […]
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Robert Viens wrote a new post, Storm Outages, on the site Instructional Meanderings 9 months, 2 weeks ago
(Email: January 14, 2021)
Hope you are well! I urge you to be understanding and flexible with students and colleagues over this week, as many have been “disconnected” as a result of the recent storms. Not […]
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Robert Viens wrote a new post, Welcome Back – Winter Quarter Reminders, on the site Instructional Meanderings 9 months, 2 weeks ago
(Email: January 5, 2021)
Welcome back and Happy 2021!
I hope you had a relaxing and rejuvenating winter break. With vaccines surfacing there is some hope for being on campus again by sometime in […]
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Robert Viens wrote a new post, Annual contract applications for Lecturer Faculty, on the site Instructional Meanderings 9 months, 2 weeks ago
(Email: January 5, 2021)
First, I want to congratulate those who recently gained Lecturer promotions. Thank you for your service to our students. Your hard work and efforts, and that of all adjunct faculty, […]
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