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Sandra Dunham Memes abound about our race to kick 2020 to the curb. What a year it was! Nothing filled our minds more than the pandemic. But was it really that bad? According to National Geographic, we have a tendency to view every year as worse than the last. While there is no doubt it…
by Edan Tasca Meet CFIC member William Davis. He’s had a long and remarkable career acting in and directing many projects, both on the screen and on stage. But you most likely recognize Davis as the Cigarette Smoking Man (sometimes known as Cancer Man or simply the Smoking Man) from the TV series The X-Files….
Mark Maharaj The philosopher Judith Jarvis Thompson died on November 20, 2020. She was 91. Known for her work on a variety of issues in normative ethics, applied ethics, meta-ethics, and metaphysics, Thompson was professor emerita at MIT. She was the originator of the “Violinist” thought experiment used to demonstrate the concept of bodily autonomy…
Keith Douglas Last month, I asked about a bizarre argument that talks about its own validity and soundness. This creates, to speak sloppily, a paradoxical situation (i.e., one can derive a contradiction). Some think that one can then say: “Paradoxical, not an argument, moving on.” This is too quick, and falls afoul of one attempted…
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