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an informal philosophy blog by Gregg Shores

Tag: Rick Lenon

Scanlon at Berkeley, Part III. Learning from Psychopaths.

  Tim Scanlon’s final topic during his series of Townsend lectures at UC Berkeley was “Learning from Psychopaths”. This was … More

Compatibilism, Kant, Rick Lenon

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

A Dialog on The Self

What is the self? Do we have one? Do we need one? If you refer to “yourself,” are you referring … More

Benjamin Libet, Consciousness, Epiphenomenalism, Galen Strawson, Gilbert Ryle, Rick Lenon, Simon Blackburn

Free Will and Benjamin Libet, part I

Do we have free will? Do we need it? What in the world is free will anyway? A few thoughts … More

Dan Dennett, Daniel Wegner, John Heil, Massimo Pigliucci, Materialism, Property Dualism, Psychology Today, Rick Lenon, Steve Taylor, T. H. Huxley

Does Information Smell?

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks have been doing a nice job of creating a fun and thought provoking series of … More

Consciousness, Darwin, David Chalmers, Riccardo Manzotti, Rick Lenon, Tim Parks, Zombies

Dialog on Morality, Part II: Moral Relativism

We are continuing our discussion of morality, inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory and the insights it provides into … More

Alex Rosenberg, Carter Gillies, David Hume, J. S. Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, Lebowski, Nazis, Plato, Rick Lenon, Rodney King, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, United Nations

Dialog on Morality, Part I

  “Yes, of course I got your list of demands.” New Yorker caption contest   People have been wondering about … More

Carter Gillies, Dan Kaufman, Evolution, Fascism, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, Justice, Rick Lenon, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nagel, Wittgenstein

As in a Mirror

  BQTA presents a guest post by Rick Lenon    The Ingmar Bergman film Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i … More

Darwin, Guest Post, Rick Lenon
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