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  • On Our Need for Truth

    A Philosophical Happy Hour investigating the nature and definition of truth, and its necessity for our living good lives. Do we need truth to live good lives?  Do all human beings?  And if so—what is the truth?  How do we know it?  Who “has” it?  Where do we find it?  What do we really mean…

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  • On Testimony: Rhetoric, Witnesses, and the Problem of Trust

    A Philosophical Happy Hour investigating the rhetorical use and fittingness of witness testimony in efforts at persuasion. Very little of what we know—or believe ourselves to know—comes directly from our own experience.  That is, someone might have a kind of local familiarity with things, but he has never seen Africa or Asia, never observed distant…

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