Many adults believe in punishment, whether it’s timeouts, spanking, or loss of privileges. “Kids need consequences for bad behavior,” parents often tell me. Young children do need us to pay attention ...

This question is timely and terrific. It gives us the opportunity to talk about the differences between punishment and logical consequences: a difference that few people understand. The discussion ...

The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 68, No. 272 (July 2018), pp. 560-579 (20 pages) A fitting-attitude analysis which understands value in terms of reasons and pro- and con-attitudes allows ...

We group the existing variants of the familiar set-theoretical and truth-theoretical paradoxes into two classes: connective paradoxes, which can in principle be ascribed to the presence of a ...

“That’s it. You’ve both lost your TV time.” My two daughters who had been bickering for the entire day froze and slowly looked up at me. “But mom, you said we could watch a movie tonight,” whines my 5 ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic boxes of the last ...

Logical consequences are also the result of a person’s actions but are imposed by someone else. In both cases, the child is experiencing some type of trouble because of their behavior. (In this post, ...