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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Closely Watched Brains; or, Czech Your Premises: A Bohemian Rhapsody
[cross-posted at POT and RCL] Czech out this exclusive! expanded! three-part version of my 2019 Prague lecture on “Austro-Libertarian Themes in Three Prague Authors: Čapek, Kafka, and Hašek.” (See the descriptions on YouTube for links to various items mentioned in my three discussions.) In Part 1, on Karel Čapek (1890-1938), I discuss: intelligent, morally ambiguous…
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(Policy of Truth) Closely Watched Brains; or, Czech Your Premises: A Bohemian Rhapsody
Czech out this exclusive! expanded! three-part version of my 2019 Prague lecture on “Austro-Libertarian Themes in Three Prague Authors: Čapek, Kafka, and Hašek.” (See the descriptions on YouTube for links to various items mentioned in my three discussions.) In Part 1, on Karel Čapek (1890-1938), I discuss: intelligent, morally ambiguous salamanders; rebellious, morally ambiguous robots;…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “No One Could Have Predicted 9/11” by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. The formatting is a bit messed up in this archived version — various indented quotes have become un-indented, and paragraph breaks have vanished — but the un-archived seems no longer to exist (perhaps as a Rock…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Election 2020 Results by radgeekdotcom
I personally want to congratulate future U.S. Senator Daniel BURKE (LwR-NJ) on a fairly magnificent third-party crank ballot line. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “No One Could Have Predicted 9/11” by Roderick T. Long
See my old Mises-era piece here: https://web.archive.org/web/20131016083159/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/11/roderick-t-long/that-pre-911-mindset/ LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) “No One Could Have Predicted 9/11”
It’s been awhile since I’ve “stalked” (i.e., criticized) Jason Brennan, but the opportunities are always there. Here, Jason is riding his well-worn epistemic-political hobby horse: no one knows anything, but luckily, Jason Brennan is alone to know that knows one knows anything. What is the expected difference between the candidates? Well, that’s usually really hard…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Election 2020 Results by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I see that you’re one of those “people” trying to steal the election. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) In Which I Predict That a Certain Event Will Happen
To anyone interested in the following session of the Auburn U. Philosophical Society, Friday 6 November at 3:00pm Central (= 4:00 Eastern = 2:00 Pacific), you’re welcome to join us by Zoom. Sessions usually run from between 90 mins. to 2 hrs., with the first half devoted to presentation and the second half to Q&A&A…
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(QC RSS) These Three
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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