Philosophy Notes
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
The Term “Empathy” is Misleading and Mostly Superfluous
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Apparently empathy is a hot topic these days, perhaps motivated by the release of Paul Bloom’s book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational C...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
Testimony, Truth, and Convention
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The philosophy of testimony examines the nature of knowledge as it relates to things people say (whether verbally or in print). Is informati...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Rationality and Values
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I realized recently that I use the term “rational” or “rationality” frequently without having ever defined it carefully. While contemplating...
Thursday, September 22, 2016
An Epistemological Crisis
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With regard to what ‘truthfulness’ is, perhaps nobody has ever been sufficiently truthful. Nietzsche The question “how do I know what is t...
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Saturday, August 6, 2016
Purpose is a Hot Mess
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Those who contemplate the means by which we determine our purpose often arrive at a description based on some sort of hierarchical structure...
Friday, February 5, 2016
Decision Processes
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When we are faced with a choice, how do we decide? We make many decisions passively or without apparent conscious effort. From a psychologi...
Sunday, January 17, 2016
The Constitutive Role of Risk in Entrepreneurship
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In an earlier, somewhat inaccessible essay , we began to explore some of the rough outlines of what constitutes entrepreneurship. In particu...
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