Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

A June 22 letter writer admonished us to think, but his arguments were full of logical fallacies. He said to ignore TV news and press as “left-wing brainwashing.” That’s “tribalism” — prejudging ...

As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking — the study of good and bad arguments and forms of reasoning — I have been a keen observer of the arguments given for and against ...

To advance a moral argument about the legality of controversial subjects such as abortion, there needs to be a reformulation of the way in which arguments are presented. When discussing highly ...

Senior District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Photo: Ryland West/ALM U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New ...

The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 68, No. 272 (July 2018), pp. 560-579 (20 pages) A fitting-attitude analysis which understands value in terms of reasons and pro- and con-attitudes allows ...

There is little doubt that reactions to the death of George Floyd signaled a turning point in mainstream support for anti-racist activism. For some who had previously sat on the sidelines of the Black ...

"Irony is dead," we are told. "In the wake of September 11, everything we perceived to be important or amusing suddenly feels frivolous." That's the unilateral take on contemporary pop culture. And if ...

Gay marriage is currently legal in nine states. Two others recognize out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples. A Washington Post–ABC News Poll out last week says that support for gay marriage has ...