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William Payne wrote a new post, Race and Political Correctness, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A few brilliant recent essays in the NY times on these topics. I’ve become a admirer of Charles Blow’s work lately. He illuminates some important points in moral psychology in this editorial. The key insight here […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Some thoughts on Free Will, Causation and God, on the site W. Russ Payne 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Obviously we are able to make our own choices about many things. Hume thinks this is all there is to talk of free will. If your action is caused by your choice and not by external factors (being hypnotized […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Why do many people prefer moral absolutes? Why do many others prefer moral relativism? Same answer: Self-Righteousness, on the site W. Russ Payne 4 months, 2 weeks ago
People tend to have a very big stake in their own goodness. So it figures that they’d really want moral truths to be simple and clear cut, and the less they’ve thought critically about hard moral issues, the […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Individualism vs. Love, on the site W. Russ Payne 4 months, 3 weeks ago
There is a kind of rugged individualism that is quite in vogue in our culture. It’s not surprising that people prize feeling powerful, self sufficient and independent in a culture where everyone has their own job, […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Jordan Peterson’s analysis of Political Correctness, on the site W. Russ Payne 5 months, 1 week ago
Peterson’s Straw Man diagnosis of campus social justice activists is concisely put here:
Peterson attributes a fairly sophisticated, if utterly wrong headed, theoretical framework to so called SJWs. H […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, The Emotional Roots of Prejudice and Bigotry, on the site W. Russ Payne 7 months, 2 weeks ago
At the social level, bigotry and prejudice are tools of oppression where in groups dominate and exploit out groups. But analysis at this sociological level leaves important questions unanswered about why people […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Leaving Paris, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 1 month ago
I’m opening this thread for discussion of the US leaving the Paris Climate Agreement. I don’t imagine many of you appreciate the historical significance of this event yet. But you will soon enough and it would be […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Terrance Hayes, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 2 months ago
Great session with MacArthor fellow and award winning poet Terrance Hayes at BC’s Carlson Theater today. The event was billed as Terrance Hayes talking about social justice for black lives. This is what happened, […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Why you might not want to say “What’s True for You isn’t Necessarily What’s True for Me”, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 3 months ago
Here is a common sense view about truth. There is an external world that is the shared object of our experience and it is some ways but not others. To say the world is a certain way is just to say that it has some […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Truth, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 3 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Arguments, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 3 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Climate Change vs Nihilism: Leading Meaningful Lives in the Anthropocene, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 4 months ago
Many people already recognize moral reasons for driving less, eating less meat, supporting public policies aimed at mitigating climate change and so forth. And most will see acting on those moral reasons as […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 20: Climate Change, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
Written in response to some discussion board activity in my online Intro to Philosophy:
Some of you have referred to climate change a few times in our discussions, most recently in connection with t […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 19: What’s going on with Black Lives/All Lives*, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking 18: About Orlando, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
Philosophers don’t often have much to say about LGBTQ issues. It’s been at least a decade since I addressed homosexuality in writing when a campus group invited a homo-phobic preacher to campus. The reason […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 17: Cultural Relativism, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 16: What Employers Want, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 14: The Security Blanket Paradox, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
It’s time to announce the first general release of my open source Introduction to Philosophy. If you are looking for some light reading for your spring break you can find this electronic text as a Word file or a […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 13 Free Speech, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 5 months ago
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