Productive Disagreement among Motivated Reasoners
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Is Motivated Reasoning Bad Reasoning? II
Alternatives to Antagonism: Ambiguity and Uncertainty
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Is Motivated Reasoning Bad Reasoning? I
The Pervasiveness of Motivated Reasoning
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Diversity and "the" Philosophical Tradition
A typical problem for introductory philosophy courses is that the list of readings is dominated by privileged authors — white men, members or adjuncts of the ruling classes of their respective societies, many of them able-bodied, often lifelong bachelors who have almost no experience interacting with children or the infirm,...
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Sexism, Philosophy, and the Reciprocity of Virtue
Sexism in philosophy has been on my mind lately, between my colleague Kerry McKenzie’s review of a disastrous attempt at philosophy of physics by notorious sexist philosopher Colin McGinn and a visit to our department last week by Jenny Saul. I’ve also been thinking a lot about virtue ethics, in...
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