The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves
Alice Gregory reports on L. A. Paul, a philosophy professor at Yale and the author of “Transformative Experience,” who has written about how there is no rational way to decide whether to have a child.
It was an attempt, if only for a few days a year, to socially engineer some of the bullying out of a field infamous for an intellectual aggression so intense that reducing an interlocutor to tears was long considered a mark of successful debate.