Why do so many Americans refuse to trust or believe the latest scientific breakthroughs or research reports? If we could figure that out, we might also be able to figure out why so many employees roll ...

A nominalist like me would say, "consequences." For example, in the second article in this pair, I'm going to venture some definitions that might help clarify differences between conversation, debate, ...

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Keeping things vague for a purpose and being unclear about what to say are two different things.

One of the University of Chicago’s most closely held and well-known values is its devotion to rigorous inquiry and free and lively debate. On the university’s website, we say that “an education with ...