Jacques Rousseau
Jacques Rousseau teaches critical thinking and ethics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Jackson Mthembu and the Twittering revolutionaries
Apparently Helen Zille is (again) a racist, for daring to use the word “refugee” to describe Eastern Cape pupils coming into the Western Cape to get an education.
Icasa’s poor reasons for TopTV decision
ICASA’s reasons for refusing On Digital Media permission to add three pornography channels to their bouquet are not reasons at all, but are instead normative moral claims dressed up as argument.
Char Margolis back to astound SA audiences (apparently)
In case you didn’t get your fill of quackery during John Edward’s recent visit, this weekend gives you the opportunity to make up for that by attending a session with Char Margolis, the “World-respected intuitive medium”.
Giubilini and Minerva on abortion and infanticide
Whether abortion and infanticide are morally equivalent or not is a legitimate question for discussion, and ethicists should be allowed to have it without encountering death threats. However, emotive responses to these issues are also legitimate, and needn’t be dismissed out of hand.
Being wrong (the value of agnosticism)
Being agnostic on a topic doesn’t mean you need to commit to having no opinion at all. But whether you have an opinion or not, it’s important to allow for the possibility that you might be wrong.
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