Fred Guerin
On the Multiplication of Gender Identities
We typically distinguish sex as a function of biology and gender as a social construction. This has the virtue of giving the assignment...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20215 min
On Prejudice and Understanding
What is it about so many people that prevents them from acknowledging a shared humanity with others—that disables their capacity for...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20213 min
On Masks Anti-Maskers and Narcissism
I am rather used to wearing a mask for short periods of time. I have allergies to dust and mites so I have used an n95 mask when I vacuum...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20213 min
Neither Absolute Proof nor Relativism
Recently, I read a magazine article that featured a debate between a person who believed in intelligent design and a ‘new atheist’...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20213 min
International Rules and Values Brought to You by Exceptionalist America
SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN: "China is the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20216 min
Let's Cancel the Cancel Culture
Insofar as it seeks complete control and modification of the minds of individuals the cancel culture is an expression of tyranny. That...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20213 min
If we can Separate Church and State, why not Corporation and State?
One of the cornerstones of democracy is the separation of church and state. In principle, this separation relegates religion to the...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20214 min
Capitalism and Work
In a previous post I spoke of the relation between selfishness and the social contract, as this was understood in Hobbes and then...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20214 min
Before You Click Ask These Five Questions!
Great Britain’s ‘Royal Society’, often referred to as the ‘invisible college’, is a fellowship of scholars, eminent thinkers and...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20214 min
A New World Order is Coming
It has been shown over and over again that the United States much prefers the rule of regressive, backwards religious fanatics and...
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Fred Guerin
Mar 24, 20212 min
The Culture of Gun Worship in America
Another American mass shooting, another outcry of grief followed by mourning, another convulsion of rage and call to end the sale of...
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Fred Guerin
Feb 14, 20215 min
A New Civilizational Story
Back in the late 1970’s and 80’s it was often claimed by anthropologists, psychologists, economists, environmental biologists and...
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Fred Guerin
Feb 6, 20212 min
The Reddit Raiders or How to Stop the Game
It is difficult not to cheer for the group of amateur investors on a Reddit messageboard who began buying stock in a video games retailer...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 26, 20215 min
Humans as Predicting and Predictable Machines
In an interesting piece in Aeon ('The Problem with Prediction') Joseph Fridman writes “René Descartes claimed that cognition was the...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 24, 20214 min
The Commodification of the Lifeworld
To commodify something, say a work of art or the environment, is to turn it into that which can be bought or sold. The end goal of...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 13, 20214 min
Impeachment Act 2
Well, the first stage of impeachment is over with and the results 232 for and 197 against. A total of ten republicans voted with...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
The painting below is called Eratosthenes Teaching in Alexandria, (1635) by Bernardo Strozzi. (A bit of an anachronism here--in...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min
Michael Sandal's Kant Lecture
Michael Sandel talks about 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant's understanding of human freedom and his elaboration of a...
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min
Philanthropy and Profit the Bill Gates Way
The Bill Gates Foundation: Call it what it is: not a Foundation but a Front to advance the interests of an already super-wealthy elite....
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Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min
Plato's Cave Revisited
Back in 1973 Orson Welles did a pretty good job bringing Plato's Cave Parable to life through animation. "It is the task of the...
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