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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thoughts on Complicity by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I can go one better than that. I’ve explicitly said that I’m defending a “Calvinist” interpretation of Kalven, i.e., sola scriptura. And Hobbes’s Leviathan is actually a pretty good guide for …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Institutional Neutrality: Another Day, Another Exception by Thoughts on Complicity | Policy of Truth
[…] from being a defensible norm, Kalven-style institutional neutrality seems to me little more than an instrument for evasion, dishonesty, irresponsibility, manipulation, and complicity itself. Though Kalven-style […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thoughts on Complicity by Roderick T. Long
You need to write a post whose content would justify you in titling it “Kalven and Hobbes.” LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Could Hilary Putnam Have Been a Brain in a Vat?: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 1 by Thoughts on Complicity | Policy of Truth
[…] My Auschwitz example is certainly more plausible than the suggestion that we’re zombies or brains-in-a-vat, and more realistic than trolley examples or the suggestion that human fetuses can be likened to […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Zombies Are Impossible by Thoughts on Complicity | Policy of Truth
[…] philosophy. My Auschwitz example is certainly more plausible than the suggestion that we’re zombies or brains-in-a-vat, and more realistic than trolley examples or the suggestion that human fetuses […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Anti-Fascist Questions for Anti-Woke Warriors by Thoughts on Complicity | Policy of Truth
[…] argument I’m making here is parallel to an argument I made here about four years ago, on so-called “cancel culture,” in which the example was not a […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Thoughts on Complicity
I’ve recently given a handful of talks critical of the Kalven Committee Report’s (KCR) conception of institutional neutrality–three or four, depending on how you count, with one or two more to come, depending on what the referees say. My argument is pretty straightforward: it’s an adequacy-condition on any account of academic norms that the account…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Odd jobs
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! Blondie, 9/21/25 Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of…
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(Policy of Truth) “Divestment and the Boundaries of Conscience”
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Not even going to get into how sad having Buck as your best man would be
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! Blondie, 9/20/25 My favorite part of this Blondie strip is “40 reps of what?” Like, she knows that…
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