Mission
Launched in August, 2020, Indynoggin's primary mission is to provide a venue for free speech & independent thought about the day's most controversial social & political issues. It highlights problems at the intersections of identity, reason, and power in the context of the United States. A central component of this project is to vigorously challenge prevailing orthodoxies that serve as obstacles to efforts to constructively address such problems.
An interpretive aspect of the project involves recognition of and reflection about the fact of difference. That is, I wish to better understand and accurately describe varying identities, beliefs, values, personalities, and commitments, as they relate to the central challenges facing American citizens today.
This project also has significant normative components. That is, I am trying to persuade others that reasonable people ought to consent to a particular set of epistemic, ethical, and political norms for public deliberations in our diverse constitutional republic.
By acknowledging subjectivity, I do not aim to relativize truth but to better understand the role that values inevitably play in judgments about important social and political issues. Thus, the project includes an effort to reflect upon and clearly describe aspects of my own subjective identity (i.e., my own particularly situated perspective, interests, values, commitments, etc.) that influence the project's normative components.
Another of the project's components is empirical-analytic in nature, as I aim to identify the best empirical evidence about observable human differences and make rational inferences about how different patterns of behavior might influence persistent problems and challenges facing the U.S.
An interpretive aspect of the project involves recognition of and reflection about the fact of difference. That is, I wish to better understand and accurately describe varying identities, beliefs, values, personalities, and commitments, as they relate to the central challenges facing American citizens today.
This project also has significant normative components. That is, I am trying to persuade others that reasonable people ought to consent to a particular set of epistemic, ethical, and political norms for public deliberations in our diverse constitutional republic.
By acknowledging subjectivity, I do not aim to relativize truth but to better understand the role that values inevitably play in judgments about important social and political issues. Thus, the project includes an effort to reflect upon and clearly describe aspects of my own subjective identity (i.e., my own particularly situated perspective, interests, values, commitments, etc.) that influence the project's normative components.
Another of the project's components is empirical-analytic in nature, as I aim to identify the best empirical evidence about observable human differences and make rational inferences about how different patterns of behavior might influence persistent problems and challenges facing the U.S.