NOTE: This post is a slightly longer version of a piece I recently published on The Federalist. Their editor asked me to cut some passages because it was a bit long, but I figured that readers of my blog would…
Category: Philosophy
My post on falsificationism turned out to be a lot more popular than I expected. I’m particularly glad that many scientists seem to have found it useful, since I primarily wrote it for them. On the other hand, it also…
Karl Popper famously defended the view, known as falsificationism, that what distinguishes science from non-science is falsifiability. On this view, a theory is scientific if and only if it’s falsifiable, at least in principle. What this means for a theory…
In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong with feminism, so I’m just going to focus on what…
Yesterday, Dave Rubin, who hosts a popular talk show, announced on Twitter that Youtube, which is owned by Google, had more or less demonetized his entire catalogue.If you don’t know Rubin, he is a very mild classical liberal who endorsed…
As you know, McConnell finally unveiled the Republican health care bill in Senate, which was immediately described as genocide by liberals. (I say that in jest, but I have no doubt that some people will actually say that, if they…
In the debate about climate change, people talk a lot about the cost of not doing anything, but they more rarely talk about the cost of the various policies that have been proposed to mitigate climate change. In order to determine what…
Robert Paul Wolff’s book is a critical introduction to Marx’s economic theory from someone who is sympathetic to his views about the exploitative nature of capitalism. He spends a lot of time on the theory of value, which is the main theme…
Justin Weinberg was kind enough to mention Nec Pluribus Impar on his blog and noted that, so far, I had mostly been talking about politics, which reminded me that I wanted to post something about a philosophical issue I have been…