Month: October 2020

Are Philosophers and Scientists Studying the Same “Morality”?

ByPaul Rezkalla October 13, 2020 1 Comment
“The obvious truth is that the moment any matter has passed through the human mind it is finally and for ever spoilt for all purposes of science.”G.K. Chesterton (Heretics) For most of humanity’s intellectual history, ethics, as a field of study in the Western tradition, was solely a philosophical enterprise. Within the first few centuries of the birth of Christianity, ethics acquired and...

Stereotypes and Statistical Generalizations

ByMarshall Thompson October 1, 2020 0 Comments
This post is an extended version of a piece which originally appeared at the Prindle Post. Let’s look at three different stories and use them to investigate statistical generalizations. Story 1 This semester I’m teaching a Reasoning and Critical Thinking course. During the first class, I ran through various questions designed to show that human thinking is subject to predictable and...