by Kevin Currie-Knight ____ It started as a casual conversation between myself and a colleague, but quickly went in a heated and interesting direction. She
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Three New Books: Three — How to Keep an Open Mind, edited by Richard Bett
by Kevin Currie-Knight ____ A friend of mine posted a meme about how vegans are cultural elitists because they do not take seriously the fact
Kafkatraps, Cults, and Conspiracy Theories
by Robert Gressis ___ I talk with Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) about Kafkatraps. Kafkatrapping is a rhetorical technique where an objection to a particular
A Certain Moral Blindness in an Age of Polarization
by Kevin Currie-Knight Like probably everyone who reads philosophy, I have favorite writings I return to again and again, sometimes to find fresh insight, and
The Mysteries of Scooby Doo
by E. John Winner ___ Part One We will first consider the Scooby Doo phenomenon in terms of its original appearance in the series Scooby
The Special Standing of Moral Skepticism
by Daniel A. Kaufman I want to describe a kind of moral skepticism that I believe enjoys special standing. It is skeptical, insofar as it