WEIRD Culture and Psychology

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! One of my colleagues at my place of vocation recently sent an article my way that I found very intriguing, and I wanted to recommend it to readers of Philosophy Matters.   wrote about the psychological, anthropological, and economical studies of Joseph Henrich, .  These researchers from the University… Continue reading WEIRD Culture and Psychology

The Death of Philosophy

This is a presentation I gave at the Mississippi Academy of Science’s History of Philosophy and Science panel. Essentially, in his new book, Stephen Hawking claims that philosophy is dead. I show that this claim has often been made (falsely) in the past, and why Hawking is also wrong in his claim here. I explain… Continue reading The Death of Philosophy