August 2005
August 2005
Was Lance Armstrong Self-Deceived?
Neil Van Leeuwen
21
Aug 2005
I’ve gotten some nice responses on my previous blog on Self-Deception and Moral Dilemmas. I argued there that self-deception in the context of a moral dilemma has morally negative consequences, because it undermines our ability to minimize damage on whichever side of the dilemma we break a moral requirement.
Read moreBeyond the Cartesian Moment?
Ken Taylor
18
Aug 2005
By the Cartesian moment, I mean that moment in Western philosophy when the individual knowing subject and the contents of the subject's own mind were elevated into the first and most secure objects of knowledge. At that moment, knowledge of everything outside of the thinking subject --- god, other minds, the physical world -- came to be problematic.
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