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My “headline” was a reference to the earlier thread on “existential” risk. I’ve written multiple times about the threat to…
These are excellent points, but I think they serve to emphasize the importance of getting our psychological terms straight. While…
FWIW, my semi-expert opinion on this aligns pretty closely with David’s: we’re playing with fire here, and there’s a real…
I don’t disagree with David Wallace, the things he says are to my mind obviously true. But I have a…
A few things: (1) It may be worth noting, chiefly for the benefit of those impressed by the idea that…
David Berman was my PhD supervisor in the late 1970s and early 1980s for my research on the philosophy of…
Let me have a go at the “normie” case for worrying about catastrophic if perhaps not quite existential risks, avoiding…
…"the best-known philosopher in the English-speaking world." I assume what they meant was the "best-known philosopher in The Weekly Standard offices," where apparently no one has heard of Peter Singer, Jurgen Habermas (who is better-known than Scruton even in the English-speaking world), Martha Nussbaum, Anthony Appiah, Charles Taylor and on and on.
(Thanks to Robert McGarvey for the pointer.)
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