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March 2025

Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 2)

Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 2)

Posted on 31 March 2025 by

In part one, I argued that the conceptual core of pessimism is the twin judgments that the human condition is very bad and likely to remain so. However, this does […]

Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 1)

Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 1)

Posted on 17 March 2025 by

There are many vernacular senses of pessimism. Familiar images of half-empty glasses go with elaborate talk of ours as ‘the worst possible world’. Pessimistic people might be praised as resolute […]

Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion

Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion

Posted on 3 March 2025 by

Justice Samuel Alito, of the United States Supreme Court, professes to be an “originalist” about the interpretation of the law. The originalist approach, roughly speaking, says that judges should adhere […]