Ben McCarty
@thebanjoben
Mathematician, Woodworker, Banjo Picker
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19-03-2013 02:53:45
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I offer more analysis of how universities betrayed their "telos" (central purpose) of truth in this lecture I gave at Duke in 2016. I predicted that "the conflict between truth and social justice is likely to become unmanageable." At Heterodox Academy heterodoxacademy.org/blog/one-telos…
We're now seeing how identitarianism (making group-based identity the primary analytical and moral lens) has damaged academic culture. In a new paper, George Yancey shows how it also damages the mental health of those who embrace it. At Heterodox Academy heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-healt…