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• A Guide to Being a Sociologist

  

  Karl Marx ImaginedThe social world is more complex and heterogeneous than most parts of the natural world, with diverse causal processes, different tempos of... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2025 SOCIETY

• Confronting Race Through Rawls's Political Philosophy

  Rawls believes that a just society must be a pluralistic society, and that means that it must be neutral across (reasonable) comprehensive conceptions of the... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2025 SOCIETY

• Grounds for Impeachment

  In his speech to the top officers of the United States military Donald Trump has crossed the line from reckless right-wing authoritarian politician to aspiring... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2025 SOCIETY

• Racial Assumptions in Western Political Philosophy

  

  A prior post asked whether liberal political philosophy can be “anti-racist”. Charles Mills addresses a related question in much more radical terms. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2025 SOCIETY

• Can Liberal Political Philosophy Support Anti-racism?

  John Rawls and Philip Pettit agree about the idea that a liberal democracy depends on the idea that all citizens have equal liberties, rights, worth, and... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2025 SOCIETY

• A Political Philosophy for an Inclusive Multicultural Democracy

  We might say that a political philosophy is a formulation of the normative ideals that the philosopher holds to be primary in implementing the moral and social... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2025 SOCIETY

• The Consequences of a Trillion Dollars

  

  Many thoughtful people in the US are concerned about the effects that the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law will have on poor people in many states who... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2025 SOCIETY

• Caillebotte's Silences

  

  A current exhibition of the paintings of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) at the Art Institute in Chicago is quite remarkable. It demonstrates the eye, the... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2025 SOCIETY

• Real Multicultural Democracies

  

  Chicago is a highly diverse city, and it is a good example of life in a multicultural democracy. The image above is a photo of the crowd on Navy Pier on a recen... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2025 SOCIETY

• Ethnography of High-energy Physics

  

  Science proceeds through research communities whose participants share important and often distinctive features of thought and method. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2025 SOCIETY

• Arrtificial Intelligence Tools for Historians

  

  Historical research may seem to be a field in which AI tools will be especially useful. Historians are often confronted with very large unstructured digital... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2025 SOCIETY

• Stock Ownership as System-wide Exploitation?

  

  A prior post made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one percent” economy and the... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2025 SOCIETY

• A New Form of Exploitation

  

  Much thinking about economic justice for working people has been framed by the nineteenth-century concept of “capitalism”: owners of enterprises constitute a... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2025 SOCIETY

• Republicanism and Multicultural Democracy

  

  Philip Pettit’s writings about republicanism offer a valuable and distinctive perspective on individual freedom and the nature of a good society. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2025 SOCIETY

• In His Influential Article "A Definition of Physicalism" ...

  

  In his influential article "A definition of physicalism" (1993) Philip Pettit attempts to formulate a consistent and coherent account of physicalism as an... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2025 SOCIETY

• Why "DEI"?

  

  The current war on DEI has proven to be unrelenting and highly destructive to the independence, academic freedom, and inclusiveness of American universities. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2025 SOCIETY

• A Conversation with Gemini About Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier

  

  In previous posts I've been fairly skeptical about the value of ChatGPT as a research tool (link). In recent weeks I've been exploring Google's Gemini 2.0... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2025 SOCIETY

• The Continuing Reality of Racism

  

  source: https://www.kff.org/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-race-and-ethnicity/?entry=health-status-and-outcomes-birth-risks-and-outcomesThe rightwing... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2025 SOCIETY

• Rethinking Analytical Sociology

  

  My current book Rethinking Analytical Sociology has now appeared in print. The book is intended to provide a sympathetic but critical review of analytical... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2025 SOCIETY

• Why Are English Majors Disappearing?

  

  Many universities have witnessed a decline in students pursuing majors in the humanities, including English literature. Why has this happened? Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2024 SOCIETY