One of the most common pejoratives used these days is “conspiracy theory.” Media pundits often apply it as a term of derision to conveniently dismiss a person or view they don’t like, and this almost always goes unchallenged. Even otherwise … Continued
During the last month turmoil around the nation has been dizzying. From Officer Derek Chauvin’s hideous killing of George Floyd to the wave of protests and riots which followed to BLM’s calls for defunding the police to the CHAZ/CHOP protest … Continued
Recently, an article of mine entitled “Open-mindedness and Disagreement” was published in the journal Metaphilosophy. You can access the article here. In the article I consider the relevance of open-mindedness to the problem of peer disagreement. Here is the article … Continued
This past weekend I gave a presentation at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Chicago. My presentation was entitled “Civil Public Discourse and the Virtue of Open-mindedness.” Here I will summarize the content of my talk. Today … Continued
Last week I attended the conference of the Biola Center for Christian Thought, which is the annual capstone event at the CCT. This year’s research theme was “Intellectual Virtue and Civil Discourse,” and the conference featured a number of noteworthy … Continued
This semester I have the honor of working as a Templeton Fellow at the Biola University Center for Christian Thought. Each year the CCT focuses on a different topic, and the theme this year is intellectual virtue and civil discourse. … Continued
One of my current research projects concerns the virtue of open-mindedness, and recently two of my articles on the subject were published in scholarly journals. One of these, which appears in the March issue of Theory and Research in Education, … Continued