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A Different Mattering-Theoretic Take on the Is-Ought Problem
“A science of right and wrong is on our doorstep. In fact, the concept of mattering brings it within reach.”
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Scalia presents himself as an originalist regarding constitutional understanding and legal philosophy, claiming to uphold what the constitution actually says.
This article is available for free to all.The Silver Bullet Question (Part 2)
In “The Silver Bullet Question that Kills the Immortal Soul,” FI, April/May 2004, I argued that souls cannot be infused into humans in today’s world, because there is no point in human or prehuman history where a putative “first ensoulment” can be ethically justified.1 In that essay, The Silver Bullet Question was: “Who first had …
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Online-only bonus: Further evidence that contemporary literary criticism has stumbled into arbitrariness and fancy.
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Online-only bonus: The career of John Emerson Roberts began in religious orthodoxy, moved into freethought, and ended in agnosticism.
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