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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Four: Human Nature and Education: Free Will and Determinism, Reason and Emotion, the Mind and the Body, and more. Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation […]

I’ll be participating in this discussion group tonight, based on Critical Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, who’ve done us all a great favor by publishing this 2020 book. Here’s a sample summing-up of where we are now: “in Social Justice scholarship, we continually read that patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism cisnormativity, heteronormativity, ableism,

Some sources of Wokism are psychological and some are intellectual, from groundwork laid by generations of thinkers. Carter and guest Stephen Hicks take up these questions: What is cancel culture — in contrast to liberal culture? What is the Enlightenment? Why does Rousseau matter? Was Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” part of the Enlightenment or the Counter-Enlightenment?

“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” The Road to Wigan Pier, 1933

I’ll be live today with Carter at the Unsafe Spaces conversation. 7 pm Central. Topics: The scary “isms”: Wokism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory conspiratorialism, and more.

Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. The important values in life — friendship, art, careers, forming a philosophy of life — are those primarily individual or collective? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Three: Knowledge: Epistemology and Education. If education is about the transmission of knowledge, then what is knowledge? Or if it’s about training young people’s habits of mind, then what about alertness to evidence, skill with logic, and a commitment to reason? Does faith work? Is

In my Introduction to Philosophy course this semester, we read: PlatoJohn LockeImmanuel KantJohn DeweyB. F. SkinnerAlbert CamusJean-Paul SartreAyn RandMaria MontessoriKarl MarxMichel FoucaultHenry Giroux Diverse enough?