Within the context of the current race debate, the question of whether race is a legitimate term rests on how we define it, and how, in turn, we deploy it. Can we use race to mandate a belief in biological determinism, or should we use it as a genetic surrogate to achieve equality? And, importantly, [...]

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In Realism, Anti-Foundationalism and the Enthusiasm for Natural Kinds, Richard Boyd defends the use of cluster properties as natural kinds and natural kind terms, while refuting Ian Hackings claim that they are intrinsically social because they fail to satisfy the condition of being defined by a set of necessary and sufficient properties. While acknowledging that [...]

I saw this armour on a mannequin at Comic Con this year and had to laugh because I wore the same armour in an issue of Femme Fatale a few years back. Bonus points to anyone that can name the correct issue!

In Plato’s The Republic, Socrates’ argues that a just city-state is comprised solely of just individuals. Consequently, Socrates is able to define who a just individual is by first defining what a just city-state is, since in his viewpoint, it is impossible for a just city-state to be comprised of unjust souls. So, this begs [...]

Seventeenth century philosopher John Locke, born in England as the son of an attorney, was one of the first political advocates to espouse the benefits of individual freedoms and of a tolerant liberal justice. For Locke, the sole purpose of political institutions was to insure basic rights and peaceful security under the watchful eye of [...]

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Eighteenth century philosopher, Immanuel Kant, explicated through his deontic moral theory that our ethical obligations are derived via rationality. In other words, what we know and understand of our ethical obligations must be conceived of a priori, or without regard to the observation of dismal human behavior. From this viewpoint, since the morals of rational [...]