The thesis of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: More information also at my: Explaining Postmodernism page. Credit: Matheus Pacini made this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page.
Why Postmodernism? — politics plus epistemology Read More »
My video meditation on Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” below or at YouTube:
Camus, Sisyphus, and the Meaning of Life Read More »
An audiobook version of my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” is below or at YouTube: Text version published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10:2, Spring 2009, 249-291. Also here as PDF. Also relevant: My chart (with sources) comparing Nietzsche’s and Rand’s positions on 96 philosophical issues.
Is Rand’s Ethics Nietzschean? Read More »
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism was edited by the late Ronald Hamowy and published by Cato in 2008. It’s now online in a fully searchable format. I wrote the entry on “Enlightenment,” which draws on some material from Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism.
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A new generation of sex robots is upon us, and the joking has begun. I don’t need one, says a wife, since my husband is already robotic in bed. Ha ha. Sure, a husband replies, but you should see my wife in inaction. (No thanks, I think to myself.) The next generation of sex robots promises
Sex with Robots? The Ethics [Good Life series] Read More »
Is anything more fun to think about than sex and man/woman commonalities and differences? So amidst all the recent heated and sometimes nasty discussions of those issues, I propose a new rule: Whoever first turns a fun topic into an unfun discussion loses the debate.
Talking about sex and gender Read More »
If you’re bored for five minutes, that happens. If you’re bored for an hour, that’s a choice. If you’re bored for a month, you’re a boring person. (And I like Dorothy Parker on this: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”)
Reposting for the new academic year: “University should teach you to make nuanced judgments. If you think there are only your views, and everyone else is Hitler, that’s a problem with you. You’re not an educated mind yet.” From my interview in Toronto’s Metro Canada newspaper’s “Defining Free Speech on Campus,” (page 9) as one
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