A number of arguments have been put forward to try and justify slavery. None of them would find much favour today, but at various times in history many people found some of these arguments entirely ...
In The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding (Harvard, 2017; Paperback 2018), Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber claim to offer a novel account of human reasoning. “What reason does,” the ...
You will hear various forms of these arguments often. Within a few hours, I heard two. One argued it was all right to bomb and kill civilians if it was the only way to win a war. A second suggested ...