Are facts trustworthy? |Simon Blackburn, Sophie Grace Chappell and Anandi Hattiangadi
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Challenge to Facts and Reason?
i think it's important to understand where the contemporary challenge to facts and reason is coming from. i think it's not really coming from the kind of academic relativist position, or from marxists or fucodians. It's coming from a common sense conservative position which privileges viceral intuition over rational thought. And this based in a view of human nature as fundamentally biased, fundamentally and irredeemably biased. I mean, what at what? Abat a wha about you ot, what dou prospects for rehabilitation if that's what we want for facts and reason?
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