BY SEAN WALSH Why the Pope and the commentators are wrong on Iran There are good reasons for believing that the relativists are doing the devil’s work, regardless of whether or not they know this. Relativism claims either that (a) what is true is contingent, and changes with culture, geography and calendar date 1; or (b) that truth is irretrievably hidden from us and that our relationship … Continue reading Papal Fallibility
BY SEAN WALSH The Devil’s science? The philosophers who believe there are no beliefs. Paul Feyerabend did not think consciousness is a thing. “Is our basic conception of human cognition and agency yet another myth, moderately useful in the past perhaps, yet false at edge or core?” – Paul M. Churchland Paul Feyerabend Eliminative materialists are the philosophers who claim that consciousness does not exist. This seems … Continue reading Eliminative Materialism
