Stephen Hicks

Peterson interviews Hicks — excerpt on philosophy of mind, epistemology, skepticism

In the following excerpt from his interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, Dr. Hicks explains why he sees Cognition as an ongoing scientific enterprise — that it’s early days in a complex field — and why he is not a skeptic. Here’s the full interview, with timestamps for sub-topics, filmed in Arizona in November 2024: Related: […]

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Heidegger’s anti-humanism and the Left

Tim Black, a senior writer at spiked, has a good review discussion of “Why they’re really scared of Heidegger.” The “they’re” refers to many contemporary academics, and Black’s review is of Emmanuel Faye’s wave-making Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935 (Yale, 2009). Some key quotations from

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Explaining ‘Woke’ activism’s origin in two charts

Chart 1, showing faculty political views are mostly left or far left (using ‘Democrat’ and ‘Republican’ as proxy for ‘more left’ and ‘more right’). E.g., Sociology has 43 Democrats for every Republican, and Religion departments have 70 Democrats for every Republican. Chart 2, from Higher Education Research Institute‘s survey of faculty: 80% of faculty say

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“You can’t sabotage your own soul in order to fit in.” Savvy Street interview on Rand, Kant, & Real-World Ethics (w/ transcript)

Hosts Vinay Kolhatkar and Roger Bissell ask guest Stephen Hicks: Transcript: Ayn Rand, Immanuel Kant, and Real-World Ethics The Savvy Street Show Hosts: Vinay Kolhatkar and Roger Bissell. Guest: Stephen Hicks. Date of recording: November 6, 2024 For those who prefer to watch the video, it is here. The transcript at the Savvy Street site.

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THE PROMISE OF INDIVIDUAL EMPIRICISM: JOHN LOCKE. Lecture 3 of Modern Philosophy [Peterson Academy course]

“I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.” Lecture Three: The Promise of Individual Empiricism. John Locke Themes: Empiricism. Tabula rasa. Individualism. Liberalism. Toleration. Church and State. Henry VIII. Shakespeare.

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