Author: Damn the Absolute!

Contrasting with dogmatism and scientism, Elin Danielsen Huckerby believes a ‘literary culture’ gives us more fruitful ways to move democracy forward.

Noëlle McAfee takes a psychoanalytic view of deliberation to diagnose the downstream effects of the fear of breakdown in American democracy.

Jessica Wahman believes that treating scientific knowledge as metaphorical creates a naturalist approach to science that avoids scientism.

John Stuhr invites us to consider pragmatism as a “season of belief,” a dynamic philosophy that can help us live a little better each day.

Award-winning writer Charles Johnson examines race, presenting Buddhist practice as a radical form of liberation.

Derek Parsons provides an introduction to Stoicism, a life philosophy that places reason and virtue at the center of human flourishing.