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- Reading group: Kant’s “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?” (1784)
The public and private distinction maps oddly onto employees posting online. Is a nurse criticising hospital policy on social media using reason publicly, as a scholar, or privately, as an employee? M…
- Can you be religious and a philosophical skeptic at the same time?
Al-Ghazali is the classic case. In the Deliverance from Error he describes doubting even sense perception and reason, and he takes the doubts seriously, using examples like the shadow that looks stati…
- What is longtermism, and what’s the main objection to it?
Core argument, roughly: future people matter morally as much as present people; there could be vastly more of them than us; and we can affect their prospects, especially by reducing risks of extinctio…
- Markets are morally neutral tools
The incentive studies are hard to dismiss. The best-known is a day-care centre that introduced a fine for parents who came late, and lateness went up: the fine turned a moral obligation into a price.…
- Did al-Ghazali’s Incoherence kill philosophy in the Islamic world?
I think the myth persists because it is convenient for two opposite groups. Some Western historians wanted a story where Europe inherits reason. Some Muslim reformers wanted a villain to blame for dec…