A Confederacy of Dunces: extracts (49) : “Goofin off? Shit. Goofin off ain cleanin up this mother-fuckin cathouse. They somebody in here sweepin and moppin up all the shit your po, stupor customer drippin on the flo. I feel sorry for th ...
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Burke Shelly : Happy birthday to Burke: Now yer squawkin’: The story of Burke Shelley and Budgie bassbudgieBurke Shelleyheavy metalwales ...
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Hadrian the Seventh: extracts (16) : baron corvoCatholicismFrederick Rolfehadrian the seventh ...
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Walker Percy Wednesday – 9 : As for the present young man, the last of the line, he did not know what to think. So he became a watcher and a listener and a wanderer. He could not get enough of watching. Once when he was a boy, a man next door ...
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Symposium on Scott Scheall’s F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics : New issue of C+T classical liberalismcosmos+taxisFriedrich HayekPolitical philosophyscott scheallsocial epistemology ...
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John Rawls: [Revised entry by Leif Wenar on April 12, 2021. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] John Rawls (b. 1921, d. 2002) was an American political philosopher in the liberal tradition. His theory of justice as fairness describes a soc ...
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IT IS HARD TO KEEP IT TOGETHER: I am so sickened by the endless killing of black men and women by police officers that it is difficult for me to offer thoughtful, high – toned commentary on theoretical issues. ...
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Pascal's wager and decision theory: From time to time I find myself musing whether Pascal’s Wager doesn’t simply completely destroy ordinary probabilistic decision theory. Consider an ordinary decision, such as whether to walk or bike to work ...
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Decisions in heaven: Suppose I will live forever in heaven, and I have two infinite decks of cards. Each card specifies the good things that will happen to me over the next day. Every card in the left deck provides a hundred units of goods. E ...
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Immigration, Samaritan Duties, and Future Generations: One reason that immigrants relocate to new countries is because they want their children, grandchildren, and so on, to lead better lives than they would otherwise. This somewhat banal obs ...
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The Human Paradox
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Valuing and the World: As a latecomer to philosophy (I waited until retirement, after 30 odd years of working, before re-engaging actively with philosophy, both contemporary and historical) I have had to play catch-up. It meant reading a lot ...
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Communist Brainstorming
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Episode 33: Dante’s Purgatorio
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Cameron Buckner will livestream “Understanding Adversarial Examples Requires A Theory Of Artifacts For Deep Learning” on April 16: We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. You can find inform ...
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James Booker: Audio Documentary : Allen ToussaintFats DominoJames Bookermac Rebennacknew orleanspianoray charlesScott Billington ...
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A Confederacy of Dunces: extracts (48) : Ignatius looked sternly at the young boy who had placed himself in the wagon’s path. His valve protested against the pimples, the surly face that seemed to hang from the long well-luricated hair, ...
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Hadrian the Seventh: extracts (15) : baron corvoCatholicismFrederick Rolfehadrian the seventh ...
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Walker Percy Wednesday – 8 : Being of both a scientific and a superstitious turn of mind and therefore always on the lookout for chance happenings which lead to great discoveries, he had to have a last look—much as a man will open a telephone ...
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A Confederacy of Dunces: extracts (47) : She described to Ignatius the courage of Patrolman Mancuso, who against heavy odds, was fighting to retain his job, who wanted to work, who was making the best of his torture and exile in the bathroom ...
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Hadrian the Seventh: extracts (14) : baron corvoCatholicismFrederick Rolfehadrian the seventh ...
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Walker Percy Wednesday – 7 : As for my search, I have not the inclination to say much on the subject. For one thing, I have not the authority, as the great Danish philosopher declared, to speak of such matters in any way other than the edifyi ...
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The Battle for Philosophy in Serbian Schools (guest post)
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PART VISS: WHAT MARX GOT WRONG: A number of readers have raised important questions that I need to address, but before turning my attention to that I have decided to finish my exposition. I am sure it is clear that I have vastly more to say ...
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Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza's Metaphysics: 2021.04.01 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Martin Lin, Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2019, 200pp., $64.00 (hb...
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CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: Before I continue mydiscussion of the thought of Karl Marx, let me offer a little expression of praise for the online version of the New York Times crossword puzzle. For about 13 months now I have been doing the p...
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A DAY OFF: I took a day off from the extended comments I have been making about Marx because this morning I appeared as a guest in a freshman writing course at Cornell University where the students just got finished reading my little book In ...
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Recently Published Book: Banshee and the Sperm Whale: Jake Camp is a writer and community college philosophy professor who lives in Colorado with his sons.  He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his new work of fiction that highlights philo...
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Leo Strauss: [Revised entry by Leora Batnitzky on April 9, 2021. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Leo Strauss was a twentieth-century German Jewish emigre to the United States whose intellectual corpus spans ancient, medieval and modern...
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Mild Autism: A mother asked me about her child who has been professionally diagnosed with mild autism.1 She was particularly upset about the little boy’s fear of strangers at the playground. While I know almost nothing about autism, an ...
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THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #13–What is “the Secure Path of a Science”?: [I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense ...
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THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #43–Is the Later Wittgenstein a Behaviorist? No.: TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction                        ...
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Talk at Bilkent, April 15: Matti Eklund on Maps and Alien Languages (Online Event)
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The negativity bias and Covid-19
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Paris Commune at 150: These days we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune which lasted exactly 2 months and 10 days (from March 18 till May 28 1871). After the infamous defeat of France in the war with Germany, with Germany arm ...
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Intellectual conflicts of interest: Reviewers
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