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What Do Women Want?
At the beginning of the American feminist movement, a distinguished philosophical journal, The Monist, brought out an entire issue on the subject. It included my contribution, “Feminism Without Contradictions.” There I pointed out some of the dangerous rocks, shoals and … Continue reading
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Times Best and Worst
Times Best and Worst We’re living through what are — like all times — the best and worst of times. As our calendar wends its way toward the New Year, we can’t help asking ourselves how it is with us … Continue reading
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Tagged Analytic philosophy, Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, Australian philosophy, best of times, computational perceptional psychology, Continental philosophy, cultural relativism, culture and dialectic, culture and truth, David Stove, ecological psychology, epistemology of doubt, fashionable nihilism, Foucault's Birth of the Clinic, Foucault's Madness and Civilization, Freudian unconscious, human norms, insanity and social power, J.J. Gibson, life adventures, life review, masters of suspicion, Michel Foucault, moral reality, nature and convention, New Year, objective fact, objective guilt v intentions, ordinary language, perceiving reality, Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness, prevailing opinions, purge trials, Reign of Terror, relativism, revolution and delusion, Sartre's critique of Freud, Sartre's for-itself, Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, science and experience, scientific objectivity, sense data, skepticism, skepticism as a fashion, the fact/value split, the hermeneutics of suspicion, The Vienna Circle, thought leaders, totalitarian tactics, true narrative, trusting experience, Tyler Burge's Four Inheritances from Classical Empiricism Re Perception, virtue epistemology, Woke bully, worst of times
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