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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Two more virtues: independence and courage

/ Education, Epistemology, Ethics / By Stephen Hicks

apple-88x50In the light of Asch’s conformity experiments and Milgram’s obedience experiments, Stephen Hicks discusses their implications for educating students to think for themselves. This is from Part 3 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.
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Sample Publications

Blasts from the past

  • The talkative sex
  • The Philosophy of Money — Breedlove interview
  • Stephen Hicks with John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia [In Case You Missed It]
  • Humor: Herbert von Karajan and God
  • New printing of *Explaining Postmodernism* — the fifteenth

Sample Publications

Blasts from the past

  • What the pagan Lithuanians got right
  • Kant and socialism, according to Cassirer
  • What Is Conservatism? James Orr (Cambridge Univ.) debates Stephen Hicks (Rockford Univ.)
  • Interpreting Picasso — amusing anecdote from Stravinksy
  • Orwell: “To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. …”

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Resources

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Resources

  • Books via Amazon
  • Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
  • Open College Podcast

Contact

Stephen.R.C.Hicks@Gmail.com

Contact

Stephen.R.C.Hicks@Gmail.com

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Sample Publications