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an informal philosophy blog by Gregg Shores

Tag: Racism

Scanlon at Berkeley, Part II. Being Realistic About Reasons

While hanging out in the philosophy library before the first of Tim Scanlon’s Townsend lectures, I finally got around to … More

Avrum Stroll, Barry Stroud, Carter Gillies, Harper Lee, Julian Baggini, Kant, Racism, Reasons, Relativism, Rick Lenon, Slavery, Tim Scanlon, UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Willi Baumeister, Wittgenstein

Rawls and Climate

“It is uncertain whether man will not use  his powers to destroy himself, and others, and the whole of nature.” … More

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Carter Gillies, Daniel Kaufman, Income Inequality, John Rawls, Justice, Kant, Meritocracy, Michelle Alexander, Nationalism, New York Times, Racism, Rick Lenon, Sports

Dialog on Morality, part III: Sail Away

Today, slavery is universally condemned as immoral, but until fairly recently, slavery was an accepted aspect of life. Most societies … More

Alex Rosenberg, Carter Gillies, Greil Marcus, Nihilism, Paul Boghossian, Racism, Randy Newman, Relativism, Slavery, Stanley Fish, The Stone
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