The Reliability of Blogs vs Conventional Media: A Response to David Coady

Response to David Coady’s “An Epistemic Defence of the Blogosphere” Preamble/vocab for non-philosophers: I wrote this for a class so, although I’ve tried to avoid it as much as possible, there are a few technical words which I’ll explain here:Epistemic reliability: A source is epistemically reliable if it produces/conveys more true beliefs than false beliefs. […]

Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma (Video)

Hey guys, Here’s a video I made to help my students understand Divine Command theory and the Euthyphro dilemma: https://plotagon.com/12834

Gettier Revisited

I’ve talked about Gettier before and much of what I say here will overlap with what I’ve already said. It turns out I’m much more comfortable lecturing on something if I write about it the night before. Hopefully this won’t always be the case ‘cuz it takes up a lot of time… Why Should You […]

Cultural Relativism Vs Moral Objectivism

So, I’ve been experimenting with a new way to explain major philosophical concepts and issues by video and dialogue (aka, Socratic method). I think dialogue is a much more intuitive way of understanding things. I’m not able to embed the video but here’s the link. Let me know what you think:https://plotagon.com/12235

The Impoverished State of the American Campfire and How to Build A Fire Properly

When I was in Japan what drove me (and most other Western foreigners) loco was the Japanese obsession with procedure and protocol. There’s a correct way to do everything in Japan and if you don’t do it that way, the outcome is often next to worthless–or at the very least the cause of furrowed brows. […]

Why Epistemology Matters: Reason Number 2

IntroductionA while back, in an attempt to assuage feelings of doubt, I wrote a post on why the main issues in epistemology matter to Joe and Joanne Shmo. Here, I will address why what appears to be an insignificant esoteric and abstract issue in epistemology has extremely important consequences to our daily lives and especially […]

Teaching Philosophy and Truths To Live By

Dedication: This article is dedicated to my first philosophy professor Prof. Gordon (Langara College) as well as Prof. Sommers (UH) whose courses caused me to lose many hours of sleep for all the right reasons and whose teaching I try to emulate. IntroductionHere are some of my thoughts on teaching philosophy. Later in the post […]

Standard Arguments for Why It’s OK to Eat Meat and Why They Are Much Weaker Than You Think

IntroductionAt some point, every semester in my critical thinking class, I issue a challenge to my students. For homework, they have to come up with their best possible argument for why it’s OK to eat factory farmed meat. Every class gives variations of the same handful of arguments and they are indeed the same arguments […]

Why Study Philosophy? Epistemology Edition

I been having this weird experience of questioning the value of studying philosophy. Well, not so much for me personally, but for people who are not already interested. Here’s the thing: I, like pretty much anyone who teaches and studies philosophy, am passionate about it. There’s clearly no need to sell me on it. The […]

Critical Thinking and Vaccine Herd Immunity Part 2: More Vaccinated People Get Measles than Non-Vaccinated

IntroductionWelcome to Part 2 of an investigation of vaccine herd immunity through the concepts of critical thinking. The purpose of these blog entries is two-fold. One is to explore the controversy over the legitimacy of herd immunity and the second is to learn central concepts in critical thinking. Essentially, these posts are an exercise in […]

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