{"id":804,"date":"2024-04-20T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/social-utility-and-the-value-of-free-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:40:57","slug":"social-utility-and-the-value-of-free-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/social-utility-and-the-value-of-free-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Utility and the Value of Free Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/social-utility-and-the-value-of-pure?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Top<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> o&#39; the Stack.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Daniel Dennett died yesterday at age 82. A philosophical provocateur of influence, his brilliance far outstripped his insight. But a day after his demise,&#0160;<em>de mortuis nil nisi bonum<\/em>&#0160;remains in force. So I will say something good about him. I agree entirely with what he says in the following passage:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o&#39; the Stack. Daniel Dennett died yesterday at age 82. A philosophical provocateur of influence, his brilliance far outstripped his insight. But a day after his demise,&#0160;de mortuis nil nisi bonum&#0160;remains in force. So I will say something good about him. I agree entirely with what he says in the following passage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennett","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}