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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking note for Intro to Philosophy students, on the site W. Russ Payne 1 week, 2 days ago
So how do we distinguish between different views and decide which one is true and which one is false?
This is basically the question I had all of you write on last week in the Apology reflection. We had an […]
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William Payne wrote a new post, Leaving Paris, on the site W. Russ Payne 4 months, 3 weeks 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 6 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 6 months, 2 weeks 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 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Arguments, on the site W. Russ Payne 6 months, 2 weeks 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 7 months, 3 weeks 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 9 months ago
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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 9 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking 18: About Orlando, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 12: Logic Instruction at BC, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 11: Logic, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 10: Greg Damico on Moral Realism, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 9: Explanation, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months ago
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William Payne wrote a new post, Critical Thinking Note 8: What Would Follow From That, on the site W. Russ Payne 9 months ago
Here’s a useful reasoning pattern: test a claim by seeing what follows from it deductively and considering whether there are good reasons for thinking those things are false. If you claim entails truths, that d […]
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