Philosophy

Paperback edition of Explaining Postmodernism new for 2023

I’m pleased that the book is still in print after so many years, and especially pleased with this new paperback printing. Explaining Postmodernism is a philosophical intellectual history of the roots of postmodernism. Its one-sentence thesis is: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible; the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. Here are links to […]

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Pol Pot’s Cambodia and Pinochet’s Chile: (Im)Morally Equivalent?

1. A short follow-up on moral equivalencing. Yesterday I posted this about the killing fields in Cambodia under Marxist communism. Immediately I got huffy responses like “But what about Pinochet in Chile?!” And “Don’t forget the US also supported right-wing dictator Pinochet.” 2. Pinochet was a bad guy. No question. Yet numbers and context matter.

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“Kant at the Masked Ball” — article published

My article on the deep controversies over Kant, “Kant at the Masked Ball,” is now out in the academic journal Reason Papers. Thanks to editor Carrie-Ann Biondi, Ph.D., for her intelligent and efficient production of the issue. Here’s my opening: “1. Which of the Two Kants?We should grapple with the fact that two opposing traditions

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El Liberalismo es injusto.[Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]

Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 9: El Liberalismo es

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