A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.