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by erikhammar

My name is Erik and this is my website. For most part, it is a blog touching broadly philosophical subjects, with a preference for ethics and political theory. I also write about contemporary politics and occasionally other things. If you haven’t been here before, below is a selection of some of my favourite posts:

Personal reflections: Why moral philosophy?
In this post I aim to explain why I find moral philosophy exciting, as well as offer some reasons for why others might do so too.

Antonin Scalia: A kind of defence
In the wake of the death of Supreme Court Justice Scalia, I wrote a piece outlining how his legal philosophy is left untouched by the many crude arguments circulating at the time. I suggest that Scalia’s legal position with tremendous force exposed some of the difficulties we as liberals face in structuring a coherent political philosophy.

Descartes the skeptic? I doubt it
Upon reading Descartes’ Meditations on the Method, I revisit the most famous argument in modern philosophy. In so doing, I try to dispel some of the common misconceptions about Descartes’ supposed skepticism, explaining how it is methodological rather than substantive.