CSI People/Philosophies

people + their main arguement/beliefs

Elizabeth Edenberg

• social media has created epistemic bubbles (echo chambers) that also lead to conforming to social pressures/beliefs

• basically wants everyone to get along and sing kumbaya when discussing social issues and focusing on shared social values

Thomas Kelly

• following the argument where it leads but not a moral failing to do so if there’s strong evidence in the contrary

• ‘she is genuinely open to believing anything that it might become reasonable for her to believe’

Michael Walzer

• argues that neither libertarianism or communitarian work, even in theory, and social democracy is the best option

• proposes mashing the two together, where state gives people social welfare + freedoms (what countries in the west think they are)

William Galston

• autonomy and diversity liberalism are in tension

• argues diversity liberalism is the correct view: properly understood, liberalism is about the protection of diversity, not the valorization of [individual] choice

has good examples of critical evaluation in pg 518-520 & pg 522-523

Larry Alexander

• guy who doesn’t believe in free speech

• free speech cannot be a universal right because no principled boundary can be established for it

• should be regulated, optimal rules depend on the country