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Reasonable Disagreement: Intellectual honesty and the ethical requirements of blogging
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Monday, May 27, 2013. Intellectual honesty and the ethical requirements of blogging. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Books We are Reading. Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits (2000). David Chalmers, The Character of Consciousness. Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity. Joseph Raz, Engaging Reason (1999). Facts and other stubborn things. Formal Methods in Political Philosophy. Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. New Books in Philosophy. Political Theory - Habermas and Rawls. Roderick T. Long.
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Reasonable Disagreement: Hart and the rule of recognition
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Sunday, November 21, 2010. Hart and the rule of recognition. In the Concept of Law. HLA Hart set forth his theory of the rule of recognition. An interesting aspect of this idea is that it attempts to solve a problem of legal validity/authority (the “chicken or egg” problem) by introducing an observable practice among officials and subjects as the foundation of all legal systems. When one is confronted with a rule R claiming legal authority, a question arises: “what gives this rule R authority? He states ...
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Miskatonic Museum: Yog-Sothoth, Hyperbolic Dimensional Geometry, and how Math (or a lack thereof) created the Cthulhu Mythos
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Thursday, June 16, 2011. Yog-Sothoth, Hyperbolic Dimensional Geometry, and how Math (or a lack thereof) created the Cthulhu Mythos. By derivative work: Pbroks13 (talk) Hypersphere coord.gif: Claudio Rocchini (Hypersphere coord.gif) [CC-BY-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Not only would a higher dimensional object look bizarre to us, as per Carl Sagan's famous take in Cosmos. On Edwin A. Abbot's Flatland. Of his own condition he could not well judge, for sight of his ...
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Senators Make Poor Presidential Candidates
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Another footsoldier in the army of cranks and heretics. Senators Make Poor Presidential Candidates. March 12, 2013. Senator Henry Clay: Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. In following horse-race political reporting, I notice a lot of discussion of senators as possible presidential candidates. For instance, freshman senators Rand Paul. Diplomats, justices, and businessmen have had an even worse showing. Non-officer veterans are another notably overrated category. Next post: Why Quantitative Easing Do...
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People Get Ready
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Another footsoldier in the army of cranks and heretics. December 26, 2012. The one and only Curtis Mayfield:. Happy holidays and so on. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe. Previous post: The Magic Asterisk! Follow me on Twitter. Email me at willroby009@gmail.com. Places on the Internet. Social Democracy for the 21st Century. Stuff I’ve Posted Before Now. Is This The Worst Polarization in US History? The Tyranny of Free Information. How History Can Be Annoying.
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Is This The Worst Polarization in US History?
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Another footsoldier in the army of cranks and heretics. Is This The Worst Polarization in US History? October 14, 2013. But the degree of polarization in the Congress is higher than at any point since the Great Depression. By a variety of measures, and is possibly at its highest point ever. Two periods stand out as marked by much more severe congressional polarization: the 1790s and the 1850s. At the capitol, as angry punishment for Sumner’s delivery of a speech called “The Crime against Kans...Both of t...
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He Said, She Said
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Another footsoldier in the army of cranks and heretics. He Said, She Said. February 13, 2013. Ostensible Speaker of the House John Boehner rejects the president’s call for a higher minimum wage. 8220;I’ve been deadling with the minimum wage issue for the last 28 years that I’ve been in elected office,” he told reporters. “And when you raise the price of employement, guess what happens? You get less of it. At a time when Americans are still asking the question ‘Where are the jobs? There is an equation fro...
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There Is No Federal Fiscal Crisis
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Another footsoldier in the army of cranks and heretics. There Is No Federal Fiscal Crisis. February 11, 2013. How’s the interest rate on our treasury bills these days? If a business were offered investment with a rate of interest below zero, by numerous reputable private investors, would you ever describe this situation as a “crisis”? Comment… read it below or add one. March 5, 2013 at 2:15 am. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe. Next post: He Said, She Said. The Modern GOP...
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The Modern GOP: Addicted to Porn, Addicted to the Paranoid Style
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Another footsoldier in the army of cranks and heretics. The Modern GOP: Addicted to Porn, Addicted to the Paranoid Style. February 16, 2013. President George W. Bush and porn actress Mary Carey, 2005. Kevin Drum sums it up nicely. That no one else cares about. Their fundraising is controlled by scam artists. They’re rudderless and consumed with infighting. They’re demographically doomed. …. Of the 1790s, the southern Fire Eaters. Of the 1850s, and the Birchers. Between liberty and tyranny. These same dem...
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Leisure Rhymes Treasure: July 2012
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Whence the Literary Bankers? Last week my friend Robert sent me the following email:. What is our closest analogue—something like American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis? That book belongs to a more confident (pre-lapsarian? Era in American finance. But then the scary thought is that perhaps, despite the crisis, nothing has really changed and the world of American Psycho still exists. Faulkner, Nabokov, Proust, Forester, …. What do you think? Sunday, July 15, 2012. I pitied thee;.
