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    William Payne wrote a new post, Some of my Students went through this. Some are still going through this., on the site W. Russ Payne 4 days ago

    Opinion | Iraq Veterans, 20 Years Later: George W. Bush ‘Owes Me a Beer, at the Least’ – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

    Twenty years ago, I had students at BC who were signing up to fight in Iraq. A few of […]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, Reimagining General Education at Bellevue College, on the site W. Russ Payne 4 weeks, 1 day ago

    General Education refers to the program of study aimed at instilling the knowledge, skills and abilities that will benefit students as persons, regardless of their career skills. Much of what we teach as General […]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, Meaning in Life and the Point of Getting and Education, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 month ago

    Imagine a world devoid of conscious experience. Not even at the level of mollusks or moths. This is a world where nothing matters. Nothing has meaning or value. Now let’s admit some mollusks and moths. And l […]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, The Dignity of Politics, on the site W. Russ Payne 4 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hannah Arendt on the Human Condition

    Hannah Arendt would certainly not claim that our politics is dignified. To the contrary, she would be among the voices warning of the current risks to our democracy in its […]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, Bellevue Reporter Editorial, on the site W. Russ Payne 5 months, 4 weeks ago

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    William Payne commented on the post, Logical Fallacies, on the site W. Russ Payne 6 months ago

    In reply to: William Payne wrote a new post, Logical Fallacies, on the site W. Russ Payne Early on in the exploration of reasonableness we made a point of acknowledging basic human fallibility. Inquiry is not a linear path […] View

    Thanks Cara. There are some good ideas for future posts here. In this last chapter of my Critical Thinking primer I’m mainly out to illustrate a few commonplace fallacies. The climate and race issues you raise here are much broader discussions. But I’ll take a quick pass at these here in comments.

    I think too many people think individual action…[Read more]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, Logical Fallacies, on the site W. Russ Payne 6 months, 1 week ago

    Early on in the exploration of reasonableness we made a point of acknowledging basic human fallibility. Inquiry is not a linear path from absolute truth to absolute truth. Inquiry is a more typically a meandering […]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, Varieties of Normativity, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months, 4 weeks ago

    Normative claims aim to tell us how things ought to be or what we ought to do. This, as opposed to claims that just aim to describe how things are. Philosophy may be the only discipline that inquires into the […]

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    William Payne wrote a new post, The White Replacement Theory, on the site W. Russ Payne 10 months, 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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    William Payne wrote a new post, Amartya Sen: Identity and Violence, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 2 months 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 1 year, 3 months 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 1 year, 5 months 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 1 year, 5 months 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 28: Are we Perpetrating Fraud against our students at BC?, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 6 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 1 year, 8 months 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, 10 months 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, 10 months 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, 11 months 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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    William Payne wrote a new post, Note to Jack, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 year, 12 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 2 years 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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