I’m really late to the “explaining the meaning of James Cameron’s Avatar” game–I saw it over winter break, then got absorbed in other “fun winter break things,” then got absorbed in the re-start of grad school. But here it goes: First, yes, Avatar is indeed pretty, so much so that I disagree with the people [...]
Category Archives: mind
MacIntyre on the is-ought problem
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 9, 2009
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I think most philosophers nowadays take it for granted that there is a distinction between judgments about how things are and what we ought to do, and that claims of one type cannot be logically derived from nothing but statements of the other type–you’re going to need a premise in there of the form “if [...]
Marriage, morals, and the green-eyed monster
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 15, 2009
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Atheist perspectives on sexual morality Recently, I finally got around to picking up a copy of Bertrand Russell’s Marriage and Morals, the notorious book that played a major part of the campaign to get him barred from teaching in New York. I also had brought to my attention a Richard Dawkins piece on sexual jealousy [...]
The male angst theorem; or, male whorishness and its consequences
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 8, 2009
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There’s a sort of emerging conventional wisdom that men have it pretty bad in the 21st century. The success of novels like Fight Club are a sign of the times. There’s always been a market for stories of men who have fist-fights and commit random violence, but only in the 21st century do we have [...]