Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Man Who Laughs by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. Rousseau is a complicated, mixed bag, but very much worth reading and engaging with. Ever since leaving academia, I’ve been taking online courses to fill the gaps in my education. I’d read Rousseau in college, bu…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Man Who Laughs by butimbeautiful
I don’t know much about Rousseau other than that he was the noble savage guy. I think the winners and losers thing is more American than, say, Australian. The US tends to put the attainment of wealth and success on a pedestal; Australians are sus…
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(Policy of Truth) The Man Who Laughs
Humor is a funny thing. What we find funny–what we spontaneously laugh at–tells others more about us than might be revealed by an extended interview. Consider this passage from a blog post dedicated to the defense of what its author regards as “Enlightenment values.” The author quotes a passage from Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition,…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Academic Ranks Explained Or What On Earth Is an Adjunct?
This week we’re going to take a detour into understanding the structure of academia, in particular the different kinds of ‘professors’ and their academic ranks in the American system, with a particular focus on ‘non-tenure track’ faculty (which is to say, as we’ll see, ‘most teaching faculty.’) This is intended as the first in a…
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(QC RSS) Violence And Regret And Evan
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – So sweet
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(QC RSS) Evan Lore
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(Our World in Data) We published a major overhaul of our work on Technological Change
Explore our updated charts, data, and writing on Technological Change across the world.
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(QC RSS) By Any Other Name
Liz knows shame (temporarily)
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Don’t Come Around Here No More by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I can’t do full justice to that without going on and on. But I fundamentally disagree with your take. Before I get to the disagreements, let me begin with what I take to be an agreement. I think we can agree that the…
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