Do Fetuses Have Rights?: A Review of "Choices, Interests, and Potentiality"

This post is a summary and evaluation of some of the arguments in “Choices, Interests, and Potentiality: What Distinguishes Bearers of Rights?” by Anna-Karin Margareta Andersson.PreambleThis paper presents itself as an investigation of the topic of rights and argues that (human) fetuses have rights yet never mentions abortion. And so this paper, under the guise […]

From Experience to Metaphysics: A Summary

This post is a summary of “From Experience to Metaphysics” by Jiri Benovsky.Check it. We’z about to go to da deps of filosofy: metaphysics. Metaphysics be about da fundamental nature of reality. It’s not that new-age crap about pyramids with eyes you see in book stores. It’s even deeper!!!!1!!!!11!1!!(I know, what could possibly be more […]

Applied Philosophy: How to Spend Your Free Time Meaningfully

A big trend in the management/self-help guru industrial complex concerns maximizing productivity. While I think this can be a worthy goal in some respects, I think it misses the big picture. What I think we ought to be doing is looking for ways to maximize the value or meaningfulness of what we do with our […]

A Problem for Libertarianism

The JargonLets get it out the way, shall we?Negative rights place obligations on others to abstain from doing something. The most common example of a negative right is freedom of speech. My (negative) right to freedom of speech places an obligation on others (in most cases, the guvamint) to abstain from restricting my speech.Positive rights place […]

My Challenge to Alt-Med

Alt-med practitioners and proponents luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuve to talk about how no one would ever get sick if they just did x, y, z to boost their immune system. Here’s the thing guys. When push comes to shove, I don’t think that you really believe your own hype. But I could be wrong. Fortunately I’m going to […]

Applied Philosophy and Psychology: How to Stop Texting and Driving

One thing that blows my mind is the frequency with which I see people texting and driving. It’s absolutely mind-bottling. In fact, because of it, my mind has been put in a bottle several times. It could be confirmation bias, but I swear 1 in 4 drivers I see are either texting or talking while […]

Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics: A Common Misunderstanding

The first question of philosophy is “how should I live my life?” Sometimes this is also presented as “what is the good life?” because the trivial answer to the first formulation is “the best way possible.” However you want to frame it, it eventually boils down to the same thing. For the purposes of this […]

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 […]

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