One of philosopher’s favorite activities is distinguishing between things. Where we have some concept like “moral action” or “beautiful objects”, we investigate their nature by distinguishing kinds of moral action […]
In my first post in this three part series I focused on the first 2 of 6 ways – reciprocity and kin selection – that evolution by natural selection without […]
By Jimmy Goodrich, Rutgers University What obligations do we have to the worst off among us? Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, recently lectured […]
“Why is the sky blue?” asks a curious child on the drive to school in the morning. The child’s parent, being a worldly person, happens to know the answer. “Blue […]
In a previous post about Cultural Relativism I proposed 4 arguments for relativism and then argued that none of them really work. It’s not that I had any arguments for […]
In the early 1600s Rene Descartes penned what has become the most oft-quoted catch phrases from epistemology, if not all of philosophy. Compare the phrase to other philosophical catch phrases, […]
Free Will, determinism, moral responsibility and how they work together, or don’t, is an enormously complicated question. Honestly, it’s probably one of the most intractable and complex questions in philosophy. […]
Working with the Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University, Applied Sentience is looking for a qualified Rutgers Undergraduate student to report and write on our upcoming event and interview the two […]
Update: For a Review of this Event, Please Read Are We Climbing the Same Mountain? by James Goodrich. ——————————————————————————————- Mark your calendars! This September, the Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University will […]
Most people have no problem distinguishing between a philosophical question and a scientific one. For example: “what is the purpose of being?” versus “what makes up a living being?”. Easy, […]
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