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Vaccine Hesitancy Is Driving Drunk

We need to appropriately assess the moral responsibility that falls on the shoulders of many individuals that console themselves by appealing to their fortunate circumstances.

Mandating Liberty Requires Mandating Vaccines

To preserve libertarian freedoms, we must impose vaccine mandates at a federal level. Mandating liberty demands mandating vaccines for all of us.

Facts Care Do About Feelings

Objectivity is built on trust in other people's proclaimed perceptions. Facts external to our own experience require a personal feeling of others' honesty, consistency, and goodwill.

The Prison of Freedom

The freedom that is so central to Americans is an inescapable burden of personal determination—a prison of individual intention.

Ever feel like you don't know what's true? Philosophy can help

What is Truth and how do we know it? Understanding the answers to these questions can help us acquire true beliefs and justify that truth to others.

Epistemic Control

Our democracy lacks the fundamental element of democratic rule: power in the hands of the people.

The Guiding Wisdom of Philosophy in Science

Weinstein's and Heying's descents from scientific scholars to pseudoscientific media personalities act as a warning to us all of what happens when Philosophy of Science is neglected in determining scientificity.

The Weekly Phil is a publication exploring social, political, and individual issues through the lens of applied philosophy.

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