Monthly Archives: February 2020

Here’s an interesting counterpoint to Jonathan Haidt’s ‘Moral Foundations‘ theory. Before deciding that something is wrong, we might ask ourselves, is it just that I’m disgusted by it? Source: Find something morally sickening? Take a ginger pill | Aeon Ideas

Here’s a nice bit of writing that gives the reader just enough information to start a journey in each of several important directions: Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken | Aeon Ideas

My good friend and 1964-5 college roommate John Butler is the editor of The Village Green, an environmental newsletter focused on the area around his home in Ontario but with much of more general interest as well. In the latest … Continue reading →

Source: Vox.com via (178) Habib’s Reading List – Quora

Must work on a “for the layman” clarification of all this: OneTab shared tabs

Alexander Parker’s favorite thought experiment is Plato’s cave. But what caught my eye was the comment by Gergely Mészáros which ended with the claim that “the analogy fails because we are not the watchers, we are the shadows on the … Continue reading →

Aeon writer Julia Maskivker asks Source: Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote? But her answer, though in accord with my own, is unconvincingly supported. Rather than argue from some set of vague moral principles … Continue reading →