Why No One Wants to Read Peer-Reviewed Philosophy and Other Mysteries with Michael Huemer

Michael Huemer is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He’s written several books, most recently Progressive Myths, and he writes the Fake Nous Substack.

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Timestamps and sources

0:27 – Why no one wants to read peer-reviewed philosophy

MH: “Publishing in Philosophy”

50:40 – What is wokism?

MH: Progressive Myths

NC: “Was I Wrong about Woke?”

1:05:05 – Vegetarianism: For and against

MH: Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

NC: “Is Vegetarianism Healthy for Children?”

F. Leroy & NC: “Should Dietary Guidelines Recommend Low Red Meat Intake?”

1:26:00 – Is ethics real?

MH: Ethical Intuitionism

MH: “A Liberal Realist Answer to Debunking Skepticism”

NC: “A Debunking Explanation for Moral Progress”

NC: “How Gene–Culture Coevolution Can—but Probably Did Not—Track Mind-Independent Moral Truth”

2:17:27 - Closing

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