Will Wilkinson
Contributor, Big Think
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Richard Marshall of 3:AM interviews the philosopher Eddie Nahmias about his work on free will. Everyone who would prefer not to be trapped in a thicket of confusion about free will ought to read this. I think Nahmias gets it right at every level. That is to say, I agree with him about everything ... Read More
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What could it mean to say that the self is an illusion? Here’s Bruce Hood, author of the new book The Self Illusion , in an interview at Sam Harris’ joint: Most of us have an experience of a self. I certainly have one, and I do not doubt that others do as well – an autonomous individual with a ... Read More
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The Boston Review is hosting a forum centered the claim of Michael Sandel, a Harvard political theorist, that "markets crowd out morals." Sandel's essay is well worth reading. He clearly gives voice to a number of common intuitions about markets that too often remain inarticulate. Mostly, though ... Read More
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As I've written before, I'm a skeptical of claims, like Jonathan Gottschall's, about the power of stories to make us better people. Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker is skeptical too. Gopnik argues that Gotschall's more central claim—that stories increase our empathy, and “make societies work ... Read More
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Conor Friedersdorf doesn't understand why Andrew Sullivan gushes so much about President Obama given the heavy importance Sullivan seems to place on a number of issues on which Obama has been objectively awful. Andrew sticks up for himself, noting that he is often very harshly critical of Obama on ... Read More
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