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Dialogues #43 Read in browser↗️ “A barrier to entailment is something that gets in the way of there being valid arguments from premises of one kind to conclusions of another. Hume’s Law is an example; it says that valid arguments cannot have descriptive premises and normative conclusions or, in slogan form: you can’t get an ought from an is...” - Dr. Gillian Russell 🚨Episode 14 of the podcast is out! 🚨 Gillian Russell is the kind of philosopher who has published papers on the ethics of...
Dialogues #42 Read in browser↗️ It is striking that none of the CDC or WHO's pandemic control recommendations prior to 2020 included extended school closures. - Dr. Shamik Dasgupta It was five years ago this month that most of the country shut down for what turned out to be a very long time. For me, everything shut down over spring break. I was toward the end of my third year in my PhD years at Texas A&M, and everyone was talking about how school might be online-only for two to three weeks....
Dialogues #41 Read in browser↗️ “Having kids is important for how we think about human life and human flourishing, because the fact is that we have the same things these kids have. We have these emotions. We have lots of moments of irrationality. We have all these bodily functions. We have large chunks of our lives where we're completely dependent on the care of other people and not recognizing that leads to a lot of weird thinking about what human life is. ” - Dr. Megan Fritts 🚨Episode 13 of...