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Category Archives: Philosophy
Virtue Signaling as Guilt Alleviation
Rothschild & Keefer, “A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s moral identity”, Motivation and Emotion, April 2017, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp 209–229. Here’s the abstract: Why do people express moral outrage? While this sentiment … Continue reading
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The Judeo-Christian Liberal Order
From Greg Johnson’s post “The Specter of White Nationalism”: The establishment has turned White Nationalism into the embodiment of evil, the political equivalent of Satan. This is just the latest version of the ancient slave revolt in morals, in which … Continue reading
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Peter Singer’s Arc
Strict utilitarianism is the libertarianism of moral philosophy. If you want to see how odious utilitarianism can be (it’s natural trajectory?), read this account of the infamously-utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer’s recent opinion piece.
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Transcending the Brain
In Scientific American, Bernardo Kastrup has an excellent article on “Transcending the Brain”. There is a fair amount of speculation in the piece, but it’s of the sort that I gravitate towards: Despite significant advances in neuroscience, consciousness remains a … Continue reading
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New Yorker: Profile of Daniel Dennett
In The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman has a very good profile on the seminal philosopher Daniel Dennett (“Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul”) whose functionalist theory of consciousness is probably the most prominent and influential materialist position contra the ‘mysterians’ … Continue reading
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The War Against New Mysterian Philosophers
I’m not saying they’re innocent or guilty, or that they weren’t baited by ambitious females looking for a payday or to strike a blow to the patriarchy, but there seems to be an SJW War Against New Mysterian Philosophers! First … Continue reading
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Tablet: “Are the Neocons Still Republicans?”
In Tablet, a Jewish ethnocentric magazine, Chris Pomorski has a piece asking “Are the Neocons Still Republicans?”. Pomorski looks at that element of: the Republican foreign-policy establishment, which has been dominated for several decades by the ideological clique known as … Continue reading
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Roger Scruton – On Human Nature (2017)
From a book review of Roger Scruton’s latest: Not so, the philosopher Roger Scruton says. In his finely written, compactly argued book ON HUMAN NATURE (Princeton University, $22.95), he sets out to defend human uniqueness — without denying that “human beings are … Continue reading
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Nagel vs. Dennett
If you’re a philosophy of mind junkie like I am, and if you’re an even bigger New Mysterian junkie as I also am, then it doesn’t get any better than Thomas Nagel reviewing arch-nemesis Daniel Dennett’s functionalist philosophy of mind, … Continue reading
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Spengler vs. Evola
In The American Conservative, Akhilesh Pillalamarri has a brief piece on “Spengler vs. Evola”: The apocalyptic worldview promoted by prominent political figures such as Steve Bannon in the United States and Aleksandr Dugin in Russia is premised on the notion … Continue reading
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