EPISTEME: Volume 13 – Issue 4
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Culture, Fate, and Public Policy
The always astute and nuanced John McWhorter’s take on Vance’s Hillbilly Elergy which I’m now ready to dive into having recently spend some time (albeit briefly) in Appalachian country. Hillbilly Elegy throws down a gauntlet to those who shape opinion on inequality and race in this country. Any reader must ask, “If Vance makes sense…
Skin in the Game
In light of the election result I’m amazed by the intelligentsia’s profound tone deafness in the run up to what has just occurred. As I’ve said umpteen times before (deploying surfing analogy), they superficially look at the swell and not the undercurrents. One can’t help feeling a little schadenfreude (I made a few bob at the…
How two incompatible sacred values are driving conflict and confusion in American universities
The ever insightful Jonathan Haidt at SUNY New Palz with the very excellent Eugene Health in the audience and who sits on convened the faculty task force on free speech. An aside: I was once told by an assistant professor climbing the greasy pole of tenure that she didn’t believe the PC-POMO tripe that is the prevailing…
The virtue epistemologist
The latest installment of Richard Marshall’s lovely interviews — here he’s talking with Ernest Sosa — a student of the wonderful Nicholas Rescher. It’s also worth listening to Sosa discussing the state of epistemology: EpistemologyErnest Sosanicholas rescherRichard Marshallsocial epistemologyVirtue epistemology
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge
Here is a review by the excellent Gene Callahan of Pierre Manent’s book Situation de la France. (I’d put money on some getting their knickers in a twist about the cover) Gene CallahanislamLiberalismmulticulturalismphilosophy of social sciencePierre ManentPolitical philosophyregressive leftsocial epistemology
The Limits of Liberalism: Good Boundaries Must Be Discovered
Congrats to Adam Martin for winning the Mont Pelerin Society Hayek Essay Contest. adam martincognitive closuredistributed knowledgeFree marketFriedrich HayekLiberalismMont Pelerin Societysocial epistemologySpontaneous order
EPISTEME 13:3
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The most influential chat show you’ve never heard of
We live in a time when being dumb is reward and being smart is counter-culture. If one makes a claim for harbouring a disinterested approach to truth, then one needs to explore ideas beyond one’s ideological reservation, most of which have long since become barren and infertile through infelicitous activity. It used to be that being liberal was punkishly…
Why Concepts Creep to the Left
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind Now she’s stupid in the street and she can’t socialise — Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) One really has to be skeptical of the extensional and intensional adequacy of the concepts under discussion (this over and above the standard political labels of mutual…
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