The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [EP audiobook]

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This is the second chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Two: The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [mp3] [YouTube] [72 minutes] Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science [mp3] [YouTube] The beginnings of the Counter-Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Kant’s skeptical conclusion [mp3] [YouTube] Kant’s problematic from empiricism and rationalism […]

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Introduction: Case Study Method [Business Ethics Cases series]

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An introduction to applied case study methodology, part of the Business Ethics Cases series. Total time: 17 minutes. Next: Rent Control. Minimum Wages [forthcoming]. The Tragedy of the Commons [forthcoming]. Go to the Business Ethics Cases series. Or full playlists at YouTube. Go to the Philosophy of Education lecture series. Go to the StephenHicks.org main

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Audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism

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I’m happy to announce the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. We’re releasing one chapter a week here and at YouTube. Thanks to Christopher Vaughan for his editing and production work. To begin, here is the first chapter. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The

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Business Ethics Cases — introducing my new series

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The Business Ethics Cases project is new for 2013. The initial series contains cases on Rent Control, Minimum Wages, The Tragedy of the Commons, Laetrile and Experimental Cancer Drugs, and the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine,” as well as a short introductory lecture on case study method and a concluding lecture abstracting the common patterns of argument

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From Poverty to Prosperity — Business and Economic ethics course

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In my Business and Economic ethics course, we have started discussing Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity. The book was re-issued in paperback with the title Invisible Wealth: The Hidden Story of How Markets Work. As I wrote earlier, it’s a very

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Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?”

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This week in Contemporary European Philosophy we are reading Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?” In this recent survey (dominated by philosophers from the English-speaking world), Heidegger ranks as the 18th most-identified-with non-living philosopher. “What Is Metaphysics?” was first delivered in 1929 as Heidegger’s inaugural lecture at the University of Freiburg. Here is my summary of

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