The first issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas is here
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https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issues/1/1
I'm happy that this journal was founded. It's needed. Not all of academia is intellectually bankrupt. Also, look at the editorial board. Quite impressive list of people there.
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Agree it’s needed.
Glad that it’s open access.
Quite curious to see how the rest of the Internet will react to it.
Can’t help to notice that the editorial board are all Europeans and North-Americans, with few exceptions: three Australians, two Africans, two South Americans, one Middle-Easterner. The curation of topics will likely have a heavy Euro-American tilt as a result. -
It's true, no Asians on the editorial board. Maybe that is because many of the ideas that cause controversy here and are likely to be the focus of the papers aren't particularly controversial in large parts of Asia?
I for one would like to know what some of the "hot button" issues in the various Asian cultures are at the moment, and what their respective dominant stances on the "hot button" issues of the West are.
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What is the most controversial idea presented in this first issue? Or some of the most controversial?
I think I saw some creationism stuff there. I guess that passed for controversial 40 years ago. Something about gender, ok, a little controversial.
Glad that journal is there, but if any mainstream academic publishes a cancelable idea, a livelihood and reputation will still be destroyed.
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@horace said in The first issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas is here:
My subscription to that podcast ended because Sam makes recurring subscriptions as hard as possible. I haven't listened in a while.
You don’t need a subscription to listen, it just cuts off after a while in Making Sense. I don’t subscribe as I already pay for his waking up app and find the best content is always in the first 30-60 minutes anyway. Lately he has been releasing full content for some podcasts.
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Life is pointless. That’s not okay. I show that. I argue that a point is a valued end and that, as agents, it makes sense for us to want our efforts and enterprises to have a point. Valued ends provide justifying reasons for our acts, efforts, and projects. I further argue that ends lie separate from the acts and enterprises for which they provide a point. Since there can be no end external to one’s entire life since one’s life includes all of one’s ends, leading and living one’s life as a whole cannot have a point. Finally, I argue that since we live our lives and structure our living-a-human-life efforts both in parts and as a whole, it is fitting to be sad to recognize that leading and living a life is pointless. My discussion helps make sense of the literature that frequently talks around this topic but often does so vaguely and indirectly.
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Get a job already.How old is this person?
