–Arts and letters for the modern age–

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–Arts and Letters for the Modern Age–

Whose Hot Hand? Which Fallacy?

Whose Hot Hand? Which Fallacy?

There’s always a little light-hearted ribbing around the office or among friends over March Madness betting pools. But basketball-related disputes are sometimes more enduring. Statisticians and researchers have been passionately divided for decades over the mere issue...

Whose Hot Hand? Which Fallacy?

There’s always a little light-hearted ribbing around the office or among friends over March Madness betting pools. But basketball-related disputes are sometimes more enduring. Statisticians and researchers have been passionately divided for decades over the mere issue...

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Loved, Not Owed

Loved, Not Owed

Philosophers sacralize moral obligation and maintain that moral considerations are always overriding of all others, but ordinary people [as well as philosophers in their ordinary lives] hold actions done from earnest desire in higher esteem than those done from duty....

Some Questions about Obligation

Some Questions about Obligation

[1] You are with a friend in a restaurant, and he tells you that you ought not (in the moral sense) order the linguine con vongole that you are considering. When you ask him why, he tells you that eating clams violates their interests. You reply that you don’t care...