Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The GiveWell Blog) GiveWell Launches RFIs for Targeted Vaccination Outreach in Three Countries and Anemia Control Programs in Africa
GiveWell is launching two new requests for information (RFI) to expand GiveWell’s funding for vaccination outreach and anemia control programs. We’re excited to replicate the success of last year’s water chlorination RFI and explore how to reach even more people in low- and middle-income countries with programs to save and improve lives. The first RFI…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mud Mountain TRIUMPH
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Crock, 3/2/26 The comic strip Crock and I have long-running and mutual antagonism, so I am generally reticent…
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(QC RSS) Hum And Buzz
might be a digestive issue
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Institutional Neutrality and the Problem of the Faculty Administrator by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. That’s true, but what I had in mind was the conception of justice as doing your own work and not meddling in the business of others (433a-c). The rulers rule, the auxiliaries defend, the producers produce. But yes, t…
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(xkcd.com) Electric Vehicles
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Institutional Neutrality and the Problem of the Faculty Administrator by Roderick T. Long
The reference to Plato’s Republic is a bit odd, since the Republic is in effect a giant university where the faculty and the administrators are the same people. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Institutional Neutrality and the Problem of the Faculty Administrator
When I taught philosophy at Felician University (2008-2020), I was first Assistant and then Associate Professor of Philosophy, but I was also Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Coordinator of the Pre-Law Program, and Director of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. The first two were specifically academic titles, the last three administrative…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Once More Against War with Iran by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Neural Foundry. Thanks for that comment, I appreciate it. And it reminds me to pay more attention to your posts on the connection between AI and military affairs. I have some catching up to do. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Iran as a “War of Choice”
Wherever you go, you’ll find imperialist wars described, particularly by their self-styled liberal opponents, as “wars of choice.” Having described a given war as a “war of choice,” the critic will then go on to criticize it as ill-conceived and ill-executed while conceding the underlying reason for going to war. The unspoken implication is that…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Soapy corrections
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/1/26 Ah, it looks like our runaway ex-Hollywood starlet, now desperate to eschew fame, is…
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