For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

What Barack Obama calls bipartisanship is not moving to the right, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share these fundamental American values. When he talks about union, that's the kind of thing he means. That requires common responsibility. Individual responsibility is one of the hallmarks of conservative thought. In conservative religion, you yourself are responsible for whether you get into heaven. Or with fiscal conservatives, you are the market. It's your individual discipline and market discipline.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.