Monday, July 27, 2015

Abortion, Animal Rights, and Moral Consistency

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Ok, I can't take it any more. I'm supposed to be working on a paper but the recent flood of articles regarding Planned Parenthood an...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Solving US Health Care Cost Problems: Free Market vs Government Policy. Part 1

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I apologize in advance for the somewhat scattered nature of this post. I'm trying to work through some ideas.  What I'm trying to ...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

Day 3: Psychological Jade and The Arrogance of Ignorance

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Introduction Before reading this, I suggest reading my post from yesterday since most of what I talk about here relates to it (and I end u...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Day 2: Naiveté, Falsificationism, and the Counterfactual

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Psychiatric Inpatient Many years ago in my early 20s I read a short story that stuck with me for its nightmarish realism. I can't remem...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Day 1: First Impressions

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For the next month-ish I'm observing rounds in a Cleveland-area hospital. More on how I got here later, for now here are some of my firs...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Evidence for Moral Claims Part 2: Coherentism

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Overview of Coherentism The issue on the table is to figure out what it takes for a moral claim to be epistemically justified. The coherent...
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

What Counts as Evidence for a Moral Belief?

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For a couple of years now I've been perplexed by the following problem: What counts as evidence for or justifies a moral belief?  Even i...