Conversation analysis

How do I get to the truth if in the process of interview the participants become more conscious of their individual subjective realities as concretized by the very act of their talking, and subsequently modulate their utterances?

Disability

Disability must have had a different meaning in pre-capitalistic society; the pity in today's onlookers is evoked not from the disabled's lost natural entitlements, but from the forfeited market privileges.

Language and thoughts

Many a thought only had an ephemeral existence not because of its worth, but because of the poverty of mind and language to find its semblance.

Evolution and morality

If much of what is in our biological machinery today is because they primarily helped us survive and reproduce over evolutionary time, then I wonder what is left of morality.

Imprints

It is the humblest of ideas, not people - however luminary they may be - that potentially imprints on the biographical spaces across generations.

Choice

Whereas some of us are privileged to not only choose, but also carve out our own choice sets, for many others - incarcerated by their social positions - the conception of choice is itself astray.

Studying oppression

How do I study oppression? To think that the reality can be adequately understood using reasoning and/or own experience seems contumelious. How do I know that my interpretive representations of the oppressed's testimony is not anamorphic?

Blindness

Is it not presumptuous of me to believe that I can comprehend blindness by blindfolding? Would not my knowledge of normalcy and surety of returning to it color my understanding?

Leaders

Science that purports a romanticized notion of leadership, perhaps holds a romanticized notion of its tools.

Self-knowledge

How do we go about shedding all human artefacts and social constructions to know our true selves?

Human superorganisim theory

A new theory put forth by Dr Robert Aunger suggests that all moral actions are based on the fundamental need to keep the human superorganism functioning properly.
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Evolutionary reasons for interpersonal conflict

Stan Gooch, British psychologist, proposed a "hybrid-origin" theory for the polar views we hold and resulting conflict.
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Can science speak for itself?

This article in The New Yorker portrays the darker battles of truth. How do we ever know what science is based on "views from nowhere?"
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Are you happy?

A recent research by Oishi, Graham, Kesebir & Galinha traces the interpretations of this question across time and culture. While for some happiness means "good luck", for others it is an "internal state".
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Power and Status: What's the difference?

Recent research by Blader and Chen (2012) finds that the difference is significant, especially in its effect on fairness.
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Do arguments against God miss the point?

Professor Timothy Chappell opines so in the Philosophy Now; according to him the individual religious experience of God cannot be discounted.
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Does vocabulary affect disagreement?

Jessica Love, cognitive psychologist at the Northwestern University, observes that English language has very limited words to describe distinct "odour" terms. Does this affect our agreement on scents?
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Misconceived notions of discipline

Many of us in not realizing that we are being abused are perhaps self-inflicting irreversible physical and mental damages - says this article on sociology of abuse...
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Meditating on 'unconscious'

New research suggests that many of our decision-making is done with no conscious efforts. Are embedded attitudes that powerful?
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Darwinism: An ideology or a science?

Dr. Michael Sosteric in this essay argues that Darwin's theories are more canonical than good science. A must read for the proselytizers of Darwinism...
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