Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Schwartz Theory of Basic Values and Some Implications for Political Philosophy by Understanding Rightwing vs. Leftwing | Policy of Truth
[…] as I’m looking for? Or is there just a mess of conflicting values and concerns, à la the Schwartz theory of basic values? I suspect what I’m looking for exists, or why do political contests so often seem to be […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Understanding Rightwing vs. Leftwing
I have spent my whole adult life as a libertarian or classical liberal of one kind or another. And throughout this long period—for I am not young—I have been puzzled as to whether I should think of myself as leftwing or rightwing or centrist, or whether I should, like many libertarians, reject the conventional left–right…
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(The GiveWell Blog) May 2024 updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(Cat and Girl) Three Witches
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Look alike
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(QC RSS) Come Back To Me
I want spicy M&Ms!!!!
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(Our World in Data) Is the number of natural disasters increasing?
A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases.
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(QC RSS) Quiet Hours
the oldest recorded joke in human history is a fart joke
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in pre-Roman western Europe, looking at one…
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(QC RSS) His Secret Shame
Hanners has never been more okay in her life
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