Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Imperium et Dolus
After helping Israel destroy Palestine and commit genocide there, Australia, Britain, and Canada are “recognizing” a “State of Palestine”—a “state” under military occupation, in the process of annexation, without borders, without a government, and wit…
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(Our World in Data) How Wolbachia bacteria could help us tackle some of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases
A common bacterium can dramatically reduce the spread of dengue fever and other tropical diseases.
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(xkcd.com) Piercing
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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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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