Is Bach Better Than Beethoven or Beethoven Better Than Bach?

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arguments are the life blood of lots of drinking sessions yeah right. The things that people love to get together and argue about tells us that we all presuppose that there's a right answer to this question even if we disagree what it is because we're treating it very differently than we treat different kinds of conversations like ice cream. And I think one possibility is it's indeterminate they're good arguments on both sides but let's take arguments that people probably have with their friends all the time such as Michael Jordan better than LeBron or is LeBron better than Jordan or Serena Williams the greatest woman's tennis player of all time or is it Steffi Graf or is it Martine of R

Scott Hershovitz is the Thomas G. and Mabel Long Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He directs the University’s Law and Ethics Program and he co-edits Legal Theory. Scott writes about law and philosophy. His academic work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and Ethics, among other places. In addition, he writes occasional essays about philosophy for the New York Times. Before joining the Michigan faculty, he served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and an attorney-advisor on the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Eric and Scott discuss his new book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy withMy Kids

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Scott Hershovitz and I Discuss What We Can Learn By Thinking Like a Kid and …

His book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
Defining philosophy as the art of thinking
How kids are natural philosophers and ask interesting questions
Learning to think critically about our own ideas
Distinguishing between what we think we should do and what we want to do
The story of the Ship of Theseus and how we can compare it to our own identity
How identity can be used as a tool in how we see ourselves in the world in both a negative and positive way
Relativism and how we each get our own truth
Epistemic bubbles and echo chambers
What we can learn when we talk to people who think differently than us
How we can look at other people with both objective or participant attitudes, depending on the circumstances
Tempering our perspectives when we learn about others’ circumstances