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Brendan Patrick Purdy, PhD has degrees in philosophy, mathematics, and the mathematical behavioral sciences. He is currently in the Master's of Data Science program at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches mathematics at Moorpark College in Ventura County, California and is an independent statistical consultant.

March 9, 2020|Analytic Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, phenomenology, Scott Soames

Has Philosophy Lost Its Way?

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

Scott Soames demonstrates how analytical philosophy shaped our world, but slights phenomenology and religion.

August 8, 2019|American wars, just war theory

A Moral History of Americans at War

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

Memorial Day at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, CA (David Fossler/Shutterstock.com)

Hall and Charles gives us the tools that we need to evaluate the difficult questions surrounding the decision to make war.

March 18, 2019|David Harsanyi, District of Columbia v. Heller, Samuel Colt, Second Amendment

Defending Guns: A Fading Freedom?

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

Man firing AR-15 at range (Jonathan C. Wear / Shutterstock.com).

Americans desire to keep their guns, religion, and other rights because they are still Americans—attached to their liberties and willing to defend them.

July 16, 2018|constrained vision, Jerry Z. Muller, judgment, metrics, prudence, Thomas Sowell

Measurement versus Judgment: On Jerry Muller’s Tyranny of Metrics

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

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We use metrics to assess everything, but measurement does not always equal wisdom.

March 21, 2018|Assault Rifle, David French, Gun Control, Gun Violence Restraining Order, Jacob Sullum, RAND Corporation, Second Amendment

An Empirical Liberty Framework for Debating Gun Control

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

Stephanie Frey / Shutterstock.com

For public debate to be productive, we need clear frameworks for analysis, and this is especially true of discussions about gun control.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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