Daily Archives: December 4, 2024

Donald Trump – The President Of Vice (12-4-24)

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Epistemic Coercion

Stephen Turner writes in Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2024, vol. 61, no. 3: “Words such as state, republic, society, class, as well as sovereignty, constitutional state, absolutism, dictatorship, economic planning, neutral or total state, and so on are incomprehensible … Continue reading

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Variations in Moral Concerns across Political Ideology: Moral Foundations, Hidden Tribes, and Righteous Division

From The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022): * Traditional Conservatives (19 per cent). This group is patriotic, religious, moralistic, and tends to lament what it perceives as the gradual erosion of a bygone and glorified American way of life. … Continue reading

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Humor & Morality

From The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022): * when one is engaged humorously one adopts a certain static ‘state of mind, a way of seeing and being, a special mental ‘set’ towards the world and one’s actions in it’ … Continue reading

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The rise of the “substackademic”

Chris Bickerton writes: A successful academic entrepreneur must make themselves their primary focus. In an odd way, the academic entrepreneur is the realisation of Foucault’s call for a “cultivation of the self”. The constant curation of one’s status as a … Continue reading

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