Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Natural Law Libertarianism in Two Flavours by Irfan Khawaja
Running commentary on Mack interview (3): In hearing Eric’s stories about Eisenhower College, it occurs to me that my own academic career has managed to combine Eric’s early obnoxiousness with the very adaptation to dysfunction he was tryin…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Natural Law Libertarianism in Two Flavours by Irfan Khawaja
Running commentary on Mack interview (2): Yes, The Personalist later became Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, but lost its libertarian flavor along the way. Like Roderick, my early acquaintance with the libertarian philosophical literature came through …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Natural Law Libertarianism in Two Flavours by Irfan Khawaja
Running commentary on the Eric Mack interview (1): I laughed out loud at Eric’s saying that Beck exaggerated his (Eric’s) philosophical abilities in grad school. I can’t remember anyone ever doing that in my case, whether as an underg…
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) From Pico to Nano
In my latest Agoric Café video, I chat with biologist James T. Bradley about the future of, and ethical issues surrounding, biotechnology and nanotechnology; global and civic responsibilities of scientists and of laypeople; intimations of immortality from William Godwin to Ray Kurzweil; the importance of interdisciplinary education, and of instruction in evolutionary biology; the 15th-century…
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(Policy of Truth) From Austen to Austin, From Pico to Nano
My two latest Agoric Café videos both feature interviews with faculty here at Auburn. In the first one, I chat with my philosophy department colleague Kelly Dean Jolley about Jane Austen and J. L. Austin, the veil of perception, Ohio land swindles, the tyranny of nouns, screwball comedies, anti-psychologism, apophatic theology, the arctic perils of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on From Bootleg Liberalism to Trumpist McCarthyism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to boydstun. Thanks! Hoping to get some blogging out of it. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on From Bootleg Liberalism to Trumpist McCarthyism by boydstun
Pleased to hear of your new job, Irfan. LikeLike
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(QC RSS) Cookie TIme
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – It is unsettling
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(QC RSS) The Ballad Of Shitty Dan
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Got any book recommendations?