Challenges to Metaphysical Realism: [Revised entry by Drew Khlentzos on January 25, 2021. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, model-theory-completeness.html, model-theory.html, notes.html] According to metaphysical realism, the world is as ...
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Killing and letting die: It is murder to disconnect a patient who can only survive with a ventilator without consent and in order to inherit from them. Every murder is a killing. So, it is a killing to disconnect a patient who can only surviv ...
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Learning whether p by bringing it about that p: Alice is driving to an appointment she doesn’t care much about. She is, however, curious whether she will arrive on time. To satisfy her curiosity, she stops driving, since she knows that if she ...
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THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE: There are two possibilities and I have not the slightest idea which one of them is correct, but we will find out quite soon. The first possibility is that Biden genuinely believes that he can reach out across the aisle a ...
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Solidarity, Not Charity: Mutual Aid’s An-archic History: Cover image: Molly Costello Although mutual aid has long been practiced by community organizers and activists, it gained prominence in U.S. media over the last year as hundreds of mutua ...
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Cognitive Control: An Introduction: The flexibility of human behavior
In the early part of 2020, millions of people around the world radically altered their daily behavior in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We acquired new means of remo ...
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The Kiki-Bouba effect: Look at the picture above. Which one of the two figures would you call Kiki and which one would you call Bouba? I guess that you’ll say that the left one with jagged shapes is Kiki and the right one with round shapes is ...
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First as Farce, Then as Tragedy?: We all know Marx’s remark that history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. Marx had in mind the tragedy of the fall of Napoleon I and the later farce of the reign of his nephew Napoleon III ...
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We all know Marx’s remark that history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. Marx had in mind the tragedy of the fall of Napoleon I and the later farce of the reign of his nephew Napoleon III. Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse remarked that the lesson of Nazism seems to be the opposite one: first as a farce (throughout the 1920s, Hitler and his gang were mostly taken as a bunch of marginal political clowns), then as a tragedy (when Hitler effectively took power). Obviously, the intrusion of the mob into the Capitol also wasn’t a serious coup attempt, but a farce. Jake Angeli, the QAnon supporter known to all of us as the guy who entered the Capitol with a horned hat similar to a Viking helm, personifies the fakeness of the entire mob of protesters. Viking warriors are associated with horned helmets in popular culture, but there is no evidence that Viking helmets really had horns. They were invented in this shape by early 19th century Romantic imagination: so much f...
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The R-Files 3.0: Reading Althusser Reading Hegel
Reading Louis Althusser is always a complicated task. Not only because of the complexity of his writings (which take the form of premises without conclusions, as well as conclusions without premises) but also due to the peculiar nature o...
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Getting Over The Bauhaus
Films, exhibitions, symposia, books, articles: the anniversary of the opening of The Bauhaus turned out to be a small but lucrative academic industry. The Bauhaus are more celebrated now than at any point since the design school opened i...
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Living-Dying in a Global Dump
Ours is the age of the global dump. And the information without form that sometimes lends a name to postindustrial societies, economies, and ways of crafting knowledge is but a brushstroke in its portrait, the still or already unframed w...
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It Is Not Humanity That Is Failing: A Manifesto
At some point we will have to admit that we have failed. We will not have averted catastrophic climate change. We will not have spread prosperity as far as it could be extended, educated all the young, or cared for the old. What we have ...
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Chile: Toward a New Signifier
Recently, two events that showed a glimmer of hope occurred in our depressing times: the elections in Bolivia and the APRUEBO referendum in Chile. (On October 25, 2020, voters were asked to choose between “apruebo” – approving changes of...
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We Need Air. Now.
During the unfolding crises, we struggle to make sense of our immediate surroundings. This year has exposed us to a far-reaching inhospitality. The situation, nonetheless, offers an opportunity to remove the noise-filled layers of our li...
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Freedom and the good life: Following from his distinction between freedom and necessity, Martin Hägglund tells us that “The rational aim, then, is to reduce the realm of necessity and increase the realm of freedom.” (223) The rati ...
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My Ancestors Slept Here: by Lawrence Rifkin MD When I, mild-mannered guy, journeyed to wild remote Africa, I made sure my mind was revved up with knowledge of evolution, and my body was revved up with vaccinations of typhoid, yellow fever, he ...
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Tenure under threat in Kansas: Consider signing a statement in protest: Please consider signing the statement below by going here. “As colleagues, students, alumni, donors and supporters of universities in general, we stand with the fac ...
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Same words, different meaning: I’ve been thinking a lot about cover versions lately. A cover is typically the same song as the original version. Even if the words are changed a little, the broader meaning is the same. An example I’ ...
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Realities ≤ Universes ≤ Worlds ≤ Cosmos
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The Argument from Religious Experience: An Analysis
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