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Bryan Caplan on Ethical Intuitionism
On common sense realism, moral knowledge, naturalism, G.E. Moore, Ayn Rand, and moral motivation.
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Michael Shermer on Morality and Science
On Enlightenment values, science and ethics, the fact-value distinction, utilitarianism, and free will.
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Review of Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments
On prosperity, moral pluralism, longtermism, self-defeating modernity, and the foundations of ethical concern.
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A Conversation with Garett Jones on Democracy
On democracy and oligarchy, courage, open borders, political legitimacy, and metaethics.
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Free Will
On inevitability, possible worlds, propositions and their truth values, identity, causality, and responsibility.
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A Conversation with Massimo Pigliucci on Scientific Explanation
On knowledge, instrumentalism, and the nature of scientific explanation.
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A Conversation with Martin Frické on the Epistemology of Machine Learning
On rationalism and empiricism, Noam Chomsky’s arguments against ChatGPT, Karl Popper, and instrumentalism.
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