Fabulous article, beautifully written. Geoffrey Miller in Quillette. Here’s the problem. America’s informal ‘speech norms’, which govern what we’re allowed to say and what we’re not, were created and imposed by ‘normal’ brains, for ‘normal’ brains to obey and enforce. Formal speech codes at American universities were also written by and for the ‘neurotypical’ Asperger’sautismfree speechgeoffrey millerliberalityneurodiversityPhilosophy…
Sean Hermanson’s open access paper in Philosophies 2017, 2(2). feminismimplicit biasMarxismPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindpolitical correctnessPsychologyregressive leftSean Hermanson
The very excellent Paul Lewis has a new and freely available article here. Austrian SchoolchoiceEmergenceHayekimaginationMindPaul LewisPsychologyShacklethe sensory orderuncertainty
Listen to Michael Lewis discuss his latest book on Freakonomics Radio: “The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution” (skip to 1:50) and on Charlie Rose (much better than the former discussion); plus some print reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the FT and The Economist. Below is a draft encyclopedia entry on Daniel Kahneman (and Amos…
This popular book is garnering some very warm reviews — The Economist — NYT — NPR chat with author Alan Burdick alan burdickaugustineJohn M. E. McTaggartmetaphysicsMichael Dummettphilosophy of timePsychologysciencetime
[we] test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity — Rothschild & Keefer, Motivation and Emotion free speechMoral psychologyPsychologyregressive left
Check out this symposium on microaggression featuring Scott Lilienfeld, Jonathan Haidt, Derald Wing Sue, and others in Perspectives on Psychological Science (all the papers are open access). While on a psychology note, the funniest and sadly, the most insightful tweet on this day in my feed, is from the Gadfather — shades of Trigglypuff Mk2? Aside from Gad, other notable voices of…
Publisher’s blurb: “How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of…
Decency was his hallmark Today marks six years since my chum Rob Haskell’s death — his obit here. Rob was at the forefront of academic freedom/free speech 20 years ago. Not surprisingly, this kind, generous and open-minded academic was treated very shabbily by the lily–livered and bulling commissar regressives — they were out to get…
Freely available from Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory — by Nick Haslam. bullyingconceptsMoral psychologyNick Haslampolitical correctnessprejudicePsychologySocial psychologytrauma
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