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Fetal Philosophy
Fetal Philosophy What kind of philosophy would an intelligent fetus develop? We ourselves don’t have much active intelligence in the womb, but what if we did? What if instead of nine months we had nine years? What if the brain was fully formed by the second year of life, but we were still unborn? Surely […]
Argentina and Me
Argentina and Me I decided to buy an Argentina football jersey. Is it because I support the Argentinian team? No, I support no particular team and don’t even watch football regularly. I bought it because I like the design—those light blue vertical stripes. I bought it for aesthetic reasons. It is true that I bought […]
Moral Knowledge and Moral Language
Moral Knowledge and Moral Language Moral knowledge is one thing; moral language is quite another. The two topics need to be treated separately. I am mainly concerned here with the language question, but I will make some prefatory remarks about moral knowledge. Moral knowledge comprises knowledge-that, knowledge-how, and knowledge-what: we know (say) that genocide is […]
Campus Affairs
Hi Colin It was great having you on the show. Here is a link to your episode. Feel free to share it. https://youtu.be/4pQMOiomZ-k?si=Sir4BtdV29_z2T_P Kind Regards Mark Oppenheimer Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar President of the South African Institute of Race Relations https://markoppenheimer.co.za/ 083 983 5848
Art for Art’s Sake
Art for Art’s Sake I am fed up to the back teeth with this slogan. It may have once seemed brave and insightful, but now it reveals a complete failure of moral judgment (and intelligence). It is the opposite of the truth. First, let’s parse it, because it conceals a slyly tendentious ambiguity. It clearly […]
Ana’s Friends
Ana’s Friends I was struck by something Ana Navarro said in a recent interview. She was talking about her old friends in the Republican party: Marco Rubio, Lindsay Graham, Pam Bondi, and others. She emphasized that she had known these people for many years and counted them as good friends. Lindsay Graham went back to […]
Cognitive Closure Generalized
Cognitive Closure Generalized Transcendental naturalism (TN) is the idea that nature naturally transcends our ability naturally to know about it. Ignorance is real and natural—a biological fact.[1] Cognitive closure (CC) is the fact of being cut off from nature cognitively; not all of it, to be sure, but some of it. TN is a metaphysical […]