The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.
Yascha Mounk
· 16 min read
epistemology
A collection of 4 posts
The Emptiness of Constructivist Teaching
In teaching students that all knowledge is constructed through their own interactions, we fail to give them satisfying answers about the world and its meaning.
Patricia Rice Doran
· 9 min read
In Defence of Absolute Truth
By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.
Alan S. Rome
· 18 min read
The Strange Truth About Alternative Facts
Now if a single moral judgment depends on a unit of analysis, then surely a political philosophy that imagines some sort of societal structure that maximizes some moral values (whatever they may be), must also depend on a unit of analysis.
Stuart Doyle
· 5 min read