Tag: meaning of life

• Country Music, Openness to Experience, and the Psychology of Culture War

  3 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  In the car, I listen to country music. Country has an ideology. Not to say country has a position on abortion, exactly. But country music, taken as a whole, has a position on life, taken as a whole. Small towns. Dirt roads. Love at first sight. Hot-blooded kids havin' a good ol' time. Gettin ... Read More

• What Is An Illusion?

  5 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  Some say our sense that life means something is an illusion, or that it would be an illusion if there were no god. Some say free-will is an illusion. These claims confuse me. The water I seem to see on the hot horizon is an illusion. The bend in the stick in the water in the pond is an illusion ... Read More