Giving self-belief the benefit of some doubt
I share the stereotypically British dislike of bragging and affection for self-deprecation. I also think the self-critical impulse is essential[…]
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Tag: Truth
Think before you drink – then drink
I intend to make the whole of September, and perhaps even the rest of the year, my “festival of 50”[…]
ReadA truce in the truth wars?
What unites both sides in the old “truth wars” is more important than what divides them.
ReadThe enduring brilliance of Ludwig Wittgenstein
As the years pass, his stock only continues to rise. Card-carrying Wittgensteinians might be relatively thin on the ground but he pointed a direction for philosophy to head in that many are now following.
ReadPostmodernism’s degeneracy was never inevitable
Reading Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition today, it’s easier to see how much he got right, and why so much that was done in postmodernism’s name was an aberration.
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