Popular Philosophy, “Populist Philosophy,” Mind-Manacled Philosophy, and Real Philosophy.
A civilized society has popular philosophy just as it has popular physics, popular psychology, popular history.
Philosophy Without Borders
Welcome to Against Professional: A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary
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Science Is Real, But Not So Damned Real.
What is wrong with scientific naturalism? Well, elsewhere I have argued in detail and at length against universal mechanism, universal materialism or physicalism, and epistemic empiricism.
Voter Fraud, RussiaGate, and Cognitive Dissonance.
Huge numbers of Democrats after the 2016 election believed that Russia played some decisive role in getting Trump elected, up to and including believing that Trump wasn’t legitimately elected.
The Moral Equivalent of The Spirituality-Industrial Complex
I will now confess my own utopia. I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium.
Supporting MLK’s Actual Legacy.
The powers that maintain the status quo were happy to support Dr. King’s racial justice advocacy, since these powers knew how easily that advocacy could be sanitized, repurposed, and folded back into the status quo.
The Analytic Self-Image. Thoughts on Style, Procedures, and Precision
The very fact that this false platitude is reiterated endlessly, however, produces the cognitive illusion that it has some credibility.