Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Search-engine pessimization
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! Six Chix, 9/17/24 An image search for “batman cat images” yielded mostly AI, fanart, and creepy photos of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (2/6) by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Also: although anarchism is one tradition that offers alternatives to (1*) and (2b), the literature of skepticism about (1*) and (2b) is of course broader than anarchism. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (2/6) by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Both (1) and (2) are incompatible with liberal freedom. Well, (1) as you’ve stated it isn’t incompatible with liberal freedom. One can grant that there are unjust dominations that don’t count as illiberal interf…
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(QC RSS) Gravitational Pull
And the elbows
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (2/6) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I took another look at Republicanism, and it seems to me that the basic argument against freedom-as-non-interference is presented on pp. 63-66 and then pp. 297-300. To make sense of Pettit’s argument, I think you ha…
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(xkcd.com) Every Scientific Field
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (2/6) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I agree with that. I actually list five criticisms of Pettit’s view in my next installment, and the one you’ve given is one of them (the first one, actually). I think Pettit regards the two conceptions of freed…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Shorties
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! Six Chix, 9/16/24 Hey lady, if you want to shut down all the chit-chat, repeat after me: “I’m…
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(Our World in Data) Metals and minerals are vital for modern infrastructure and the energy transition
Discover which countries have these critical resources, where they are mined and refined, and how they’re traded across the world.
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(Our World in Data) Which countries have the critical minerals needed for the energy transition?
An overview of the distribution of critical minerals for clean energy.
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