Part Two of the Fucking Ridiculous Article

Article here. Part one here. When Barry Schwartz started teaching at Swarthmore in the ’70s and would pose a question to a class, “Someone was always interrupting before the question was finished,” he recalls, “and it was always a male.” Now, he says, guys aren’t doing that. Men aren’t acting like privileged douchebags anymore! OH [...]

Should I Write About Kristen Stewart and a Married Man?

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Joanna Schroeder knows that she should probably write about the news of two celebrities who may be having an affair. But she decided to write about why she’d rather not.

Moral Relativism vs. Cultural Relativism

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…philosophers generally think that something is ‘relative’ if and only if a) two agents can disagree about some fact about the world b) mean the same thing and c) there is nothing that would settle the matter.