Is Truth a Political Luxury?
It is easy to profess allegiance to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but in a world where opponents are using every trick in the book to defeat you, can anyone afford to be so high-minded?
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Do your genes determine your entire life?
The idea that unconscious biological forces drive our beliefs and actions would seem to pose a real threat to our free will. We like to think that we make choices on the basis of our own conscious deliberations. But isn’t all that thinking things over irrelevant if our final decision was already written in our genetic code? And doesn’t the whole edifice of personal responsibility collapse if we accept that “my genes made me do it”?
ReadThe Philosopher in the Kitchen
Four new videos exploring the ideas – and foods – in The Virtues of the Table.
ReadWhat does it mean to be you?
Dan Dennett, Sue Blackmore, Eric Olsen and others answer in my home movie.
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