Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the locus of control and optimism bias. Depressive Realism May Not Be Real In the lyrics to the song “Dumb,” Kurt Cobain sang “I think I’m […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
“You are not entitled to your opinion.”
Friday, October 12, 2012
“You are only entitled to what you can argue for. “A bit harsh? Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument – and to recognize when a belief has become indefensible.”
Mormonism: even stranger than i thought
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Why I Love Mormonism – Simon Critchley […] “ ‘As man now is, God once was. As God now is, man may be.’ ” “So, dear Simon,” my new friend concluded, “we, too, can become Gods, American Gods, no less.” He chuckled. I was astonished.
But how are you going to make them take the pills?
Monday, July 30, 2012
Philosophy Now: Moral Enhancement We are at the early stages of such research, but there are few cogent philosophical or moral objections to the use of specifically biomedical moral enhancement – or moral bioenhancement. In fact, the risks we face are so serious that it is imperative we explore every possibility of developing moral bioenhancement […]
specialness
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We’re Not Special There is a generation in [a country very close to Canada] that believes in its own specialness. I will agree with that. But you’ve got its identity wrong.
and they can still talk
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Forty years in solitary: two men mark sombre anniversary in Louisiana prison Since 1972, Wallace and Woodfox have been brought before more than 150 prison boards where their unprecedented duration in solitary confinement has been reviewed only for them to be sent straight back to their cells. The only explanation given: “Nature of the original […]
Love, hate and cognitive dissonance
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Benjamin Franklin Effect The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
what a drag it is getting old
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They […]
honesty
Monday, November 28, 2011
Don’t always protect people from your truth. It won’t make things right One of the day-to-day reasons that relationships between human beings become so screwed up has to do with this well-intentioned deception. We protect those we interact with from the negative aspects of our feelings about them, because we want to be nice and […]
The other ‘9/11’
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Chile: The other 9/11 Following Allende’s election, the US Ambassador cabled Washington: “Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first country in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly.”
