By Mathew Goldstein
Here are correct (IMO) answers to the ten most consequential philosophical questions, as identified by AI assistant Claude, provided to us by Massimo Pigliucci, Professor at the department of philosophy, City College of New York, ten existential questions for empirical naturalists.
Mathew Goldstein
Jamie Paul is Managing Editor at Queer Majority, Contributing Editor at Bi.org, and a critic of trans activism as it has been conducted. I agree with his criticism of trans activism and also with his depiction of how trans activism should have been conducted in his article Manifesto for Trans Activism. There is similar criticism from Andrew Sullivan who says trans activism exhibits an anti-gay orientation. However, unlike religious faith defending Catholic Andrew Sullivan, Jamie Paul understands that ideologies in general are a problem as he explains in Religion is not the Antidote to Wokeness. My own characterization of trans activism (as it has been conducted) is that it exhibits an off-putting neuroticism that counter-productively undermines confidence in the cause.
By Mathew Goldstein
A lengthy but still worthwhile commentary from Helen Pluckrose on the problem of illiberalism. She discusses the tendency of activists to demand other people believe what they believe and become advocates for authoritarian policies that impose adoption of those beliefs on everyone else.
Here is a set of strong arguments that asserting “transwomen are women” is illogical, incoherent, and wrong. “The Beetle, the Beard, and the Bioloigical Kind”.
