“When the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

But nails look like nails.

Skepticism can be just as stupid as credulousness.

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The world is suffering from its philosophical poverty, but it is too unphilosophical to recognize it. Metacognitive incompetence, the curse of the liberal arts, strikes again. The sciences have the material plane to serve as its police force. The liberal arts have no law enforcement, only free appeal and recognition.

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When we learn to distribute our philosophical wealth, maybe we’ll figure out how to distribute our material wealth.

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Philosophy has much to learn from the new field of user experience.

User experience has much to learn from philosophy.

So many nails to hammer!