Archive for October, 2021

Three Pointless Dialogues on Relativism about Truth

Monday, October 18th, 2021

I was reading and listening to some Steven Pinker articles and podcasts (for Quillette, I believe) talking about his new book on rationality, and one of the throwaway points he makes is that relativism about truth is a bad position. I don’t doubt that, but I’m not so sure that ...

New pronouns!

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

I, me, my Please keep up.

L’incohérence de Bouddhisme

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Le bouddhisme a la réputation d’être à la fois une religion et une philosophie : en fait, beaucoup de philosophes pensent que c’est une philosophie admirable. Il y en a cependant d’autres qui pensent que c’est un mélange des pseudo-profondeurs et d’incohérences. Par exemple, les bouddhistes disent que la fin ...