I’ll be speaking at St. John’s University on March 27. My topic is “Safe and/or Free Speech in Postmodern Times.” Abstract: The liberal case for free speech won out in the modern world — but it has been challenged strongly, not only by traditional conservatives but also by the postmodern left. Hate speech, micro-aggressions, safe spaces, […]
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On February 20 and 21 I’ll be speaking at the Orono campus on two issues in political philosophy: “Postmodernism and the Rise of the New Left” “Nietzsche — Did the National Socialists Use or Abuse His Philosophy?” The poster for the event is here. Thanks very much to Professor Michael Palmer for the invitation.
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After my talk there on “How Ethics Drives the Debate over the USA’s Healthcare Politics and Economics,” I received this letter of appreciation from the program’s head, Dr. Hanna Kostyło. In Polish and in English (click on image to enlarge): A fine memento of an enjoyable event. I learned from Professora Kostyło that the College
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From January 6-16 I’ll be giving a total of eight talks in Poland: Bydgoszcz, Chojnice, Warszawa, and Kraków. Several of the talks are tied to the newly-published Polish edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The Polish translation by Piotr Kostyło and Katarzyna Nowak was published as Zrozumieć postmodernizm. Sceptycyzm
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871). René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641). Fyodor Dostoyevsky “The Grand Inquisitor”, excerpted from The Brothers Karamazov (1880). William James, “What Makes a Life Significant?” (1900). Immanuel Kant, “Duties towards the Body in Respect of Sexual
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[With Trump-strategist Steve Bannon all over the news, here’s a re-post of my one encounter with the Breitbart news and commentary site he headed.] What can I say? According to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website, Professor Stephen Hicks of Rockford College is a Marxist devoted to educating cadres of revolutionaries. Many people posted/emailed the Breitbart
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On October 31, I will be giving three talks in Minnesota at Gustavus Adolphus College: * The Ethics Debates over Minimum Wages * National Socialism: Was it really socialist? Was it really a philosophy? * Entrepreneurship and the New Moral Leadership Thanks very much to Professor Marta Podemska-Mikluch of GAC’s economics department for inviting me.
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I’ll be participating in this fun-looking weekend conferenceat the University of Illinois, Springfield. My topic is: Does Free-market Liberalism Make You a Better Person? My abstract is: Advocates of free-market liberalism (FML) often emphasize how it increases people’s wealth and the many material benefits that wealth can bring—better nutrition, education, healthcare, artistic and cultural experiences,
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