Maverick Philosopher

Diversity

Opposing natural diversity, leftists seek to impose social diversity by law.

Diversity, Inc.

Another excellent column by Victor Davis Hanson. Excerpt: A university, for example, might highlight its “rich diversity” by pointing to gay students, female students, Punjabi students, Arab students, Korean students, and disabled st...

Notes on Philosophical Terminology and its Fluidity

The Fact of Terminological Fluidity If Peter and Bill are talking philosophy, the first thing that has to occur, if there is is to be any forward movement, is that the interlocutors must pin each other down terminology-wise. Each has to...

Michael Sudduth Converts to Vaishnava Vedanta!

The New Year has brought me quite a lot of surprising e-mail, but the following missive wins the surprise prize. (Since Dr. Sudduth has sent his open letter to numerous correspondents, and has posted it on his Facebook page, I feel enti...

My Existence and My Possible Nonexistence

Leo Mollica made a good objection to my earlier argument, an objection I need to sort out. I exist, but I might not have existed. How might a thin theorist translate this truth? On the thin theory, my existence is my identity-with-so...

Dallas Willard on Being and Modes of Being

How do we best honor a philosopher, especially one who has passed on? By taking him seriously as an interlocutor and re-enacting his thoughts, sympathetically yet critically. What follows is pp. 37-42 of my article, "The Moreland-Will...

On Transcending Tribalism

Jonathan Haidt: Humans are tribal, but tribalism can be transcended. It exists in tension with our extraordinary ability to develop bonds with other human beings. Romeo and Juliet fell in love. French, British and German soldiers came...

A Comment Thread on Tribalism and Identity Politics from December, 2015

Part of an uncommonly good thread. Here is the entry to which the thread attaches. .......................................................... Anon, My point was that many short comments are better than one long one. One problem ...