Category: Philosophy
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Understanding Honesty in Modern Relationships
Honesty: the virtue we admire and praise, but are we living accordingly? And, Is honesty the same as truth? Philosopher and author of The Honesty Crisis, Christian Miller, offers a fresh look at this Aristotelian virtue with respect to our current cultural climate. The “white lie” one might tell to smooth a wrinkle in delicate…
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What Makes Someone an Expert? Understanding Expertise vs. the Appeal to Authority Fallacy
Expert, “Expert,” or Appeal to Authority? Every day we’re told to “listen to the experts.” At the same time, we’re warned not to trust experts. The result is confusion over a surprisingly basic philosophical question: What makes someone an expert? Before we can debate medicine, education, economics, or public policy, we have to understand the…
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Holbach, Bad Bunny, and Penguins
What does it mean to offend? Is to be offended a matter of subjective experience? Or are there specific requirements, a threshold of logic, if you will, that must be met for one to indeed rationally claim they are offended? People often mistake the introduction of “a” (another possibility) for an attack on “the”…
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4 Books That Prove Philosophy Is More Useful Than You Think. Recommended by a Philosophy Professor
A very common question I received throughout my undergraduate and graduate years, when people learned I studied Philosophy, was: “Oh, what are you going to do with that?” I’m sure many of us who pursue the humanities have heard some variation of this question with a tone of curiosity and a hint of confusion. Culturally,…
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Press Release: “Public Philosophy in Action. ‘Philosophy Unplugged’ Creates Meaningful Dialogue and Brings Philosophy into the Classroom.”
Good Is In The Details podcast episodes as a tool for educators and the philosophy curious. The first in a series, Philosophy Unplugged provides discussion questions for five interviews offering contemporary insight on big philosophical ideas: Determinism and Justice, Virtue Ethics and Genetic Engineering, Existentialism, Film and its reflection of culture, and the trajectory of…
