Confronting Internet Apathy

Today, a friend of mine posted a video of children and adults with severe intellectual disabilities engaging in a Special Poetry Slam, a simplified slam poetry event in which they took turns performing a single line of poetry.  For them, this was a very difficult thing to do, but they pulled it off marvelously.  My…

An Epistemological Conversation

Alexandre Ederer: Truth is subjective. Adam Pearson: It depends what you mean by “truth.” If truth is a relation of correspondence between a statement and a state of affairs in the world, then no, truth is not subjective. It is supremely objective. Even truths about my own mental states can be objective; if I say “I dreamed…

On Not Inhibiting Ourselves

It is remarkable how much easier life becomes when we step out of our own way.

Wise Confidence

Wise confidence is a measure of competence.