Understanding Society

  A prior  post  made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one per...

  Much thinking about economic justice for working people has been framed by the nineteenth-century concept of “capitalism”: owners of enter...

Philip Pettit’s writings about republicanism offer a valuable and distinctive perspective on individual freedom and the nature of a good soc...

In his influential article "A definition of physicalism" (1993) Philip Pettit attempts to formulate a consistent and coherent acco...

The current war on DEI has proven to be unrelenting and highly destructive to the independence, academic freedom, and inclusiveness of Ameri...

In previous posts I've been fairly skeptical about the value of ChatGPT as a research tool ( link ). In recent weeks I've been explo...