Writings of J. Todd Ring: Step Number One

Stephen Toulmin’s proposal of a return to a modest Renaissance humanism sounds wonderful (as a fresh start, so to speak, and only a start) compared to dogmatic ideology-fetishizing modernism on the one hand, or the arguably even  worse alternative of polysyllabic post-modernist nihilism on the other. But when the people

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Dead Wild Roses: Holly Lawford-Smith Captures the Friction Between The Trans and Gender Critical sides of the Gender Debate

  Holly Lawford-Smith’s work in its entirety because it so precisely encapsulates what is going in the gender debates.   Earlier this year, the Institute of Art and Ideas invited scholars and activists to consider the question, How Can Philosophy Help Us Understand Transgender Experiences? Following the publication of this article,

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