by Daniel A. Kaufman EDITORS NOTE: This essay originally appeared on Dan Kaufman’s previous blog, Apophenia. We are reprinting it here, as a preface to
Constitutional Originalism and Religious Fundamentalism — Two Sides of the Same Coin
By Steve Snyder “Originalism” has arguably been the most prominent theory of legal interpretation of the U.S. Constitution since Antonin Scalia became an associate justice
This Week’s Special: Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”
By Daniel A. Kaufman http://employees.csbsju.edu/dbeach/beautytruth/Sontag-Against%20Interpretation.pdf On tap this week is Susan Sontag’s influential attack on a certain kind of intellectualist approach to art, in “Against
Acceptance, Belief, and the Question of Informal Fallacies
By Daniel Tippens Introduction Informal fallacies have become a hot topic in some circles. An informal fallacy is an argumentative move that may be psychologically
Critical Thinking Before the Second World War
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This Week’s Special: Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
By Daniel A. Kaufman http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html On tap this week is one of the most influential philosophy papers of the last century, Willard Van Orman Quine’s