Conor McCarthy

While agreeing that a new technology does lead to a change in our agency, Reid points out that agency isn’t just about objective control; it’s also about how we perceive and experience our own sense of control. “Is it a loss of agency to being driven in an Uber, or a gain in agency to being driven in an Uber? If you're like, ‘My hands aren't on the... See more

What are you pretending to know when you could be asking a better question?

The idea that things from outside you to make you feel better are bad eg alcohol, bad food...Things from inside you are more durable and natural - calm mind, fit body, well-being etc

particular, her example reflects a failure of temporal reasoning, which is something that Ernest Davis and I have been harping on for years. For example in our 2019 book we gave numerous examples and fairly begged the field to work on it:If we could have only three knowledge frameworks, we would lean heavily on topics that were central to Kant's Cr... See more

Acceptance is the integration of reality