It’s time for round two of the “dignity debate.” The latest:

  • BioEdge says Pinker is “no philosopher.”
     
  • Stuart Rennie asks if autonomy is in any “better conceptual shape” than dignity.
     
  • Noah Millman gives “one cheer for Pinker even if he is being a jerk.” (See too the interesting comment thread.)
     
  • Alan Jacobs has some fun with Pinker’s notion that the sciences and the humanities, “like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort,…are predestined to eternal enmity: one of them must destroy the other.”

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