Thomas Hobbes

Heterosexual men cannot imagine how a female rape victim feels.

Xunzi's criticism of Mencius has force when Mencius is interpreted via the water-metaphor view

Heterosexual men cannot imagine how a female rape victim feels.

Xunzi's criticism of Mencius has force when Mencius is interpreted via the water-metaphor view

Moral and aesthetic excellence are objective qualities in objects, not merely projections of the pleasure they cause in observers.

Moral and aesthetic excellence are objective qualities in objects, not merely projections of the pleasure they cause in observers.

Only the objective fact of actually being the true church can justify a church's right to persecute

Only the objective fact of actually being the true church can justify a church's right to persecute

An interpretive theory that appeals to the abstract intentions of constitutional authors over their concrete historical understandings may not qualify as genuine originalism and may instead collapse into living constitutionalism.

An interpretive theory that appeals to the abstract intentions of constitutional authors over their concrete historical understandings may not qualify as genuine originalism and may instead collapse into living constitutionalism.

Any theory that explains 'good' as an optative in unasserted contexts would render obviously valid arguments invalid by treating them as equivocal

Demonstrative reasoning cannot bridge the gap between past observations and conclusions about future regularities in nature

Backward induction is self-undermining as a solution concept in certain extensive-form games

Demonstrative reasoning cannot bridge the gap between past observations and conclusions about future regularities in nature

Backward induction is self-undermining as a solution concept in certain extensive-form games

We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

Disputes about free will ineluctably involve disputes about metaphysics and ethics.