Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MERELY NON-IDEAL VS. OBJECTIONABLE RESPONSES TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE by Irfan Khawaja
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(Policy of Truth) MERELY NON-IDEAL VS. OBJECTIONABLE RESPONSES TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE
Suppose I’m a judge in state (government) S1 and, in the judicial system of this state, due to cultural and institutional factors that do not prominently include explicit bigotry or anything like this, those in the non-dominant ethnic groups are twice as likely to get a death sentence than are those in the dominant ethnic…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Ukraine: A Reprise by Irfan Khawaja
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Ukraine: A Reprise by Irfan Khawaja
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Policy of Truth on Facebook by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to boydstun. Ironically, I’ve decided to end my presence on Facebook, at least as an individual. I’m not going to de-activate my account, but I’ve pinned a post informing my FB friends that I no longer intend to use it. I wil…
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Misleading Mill Meme Makes Muddled Minds
Going around the internet recently is a photo of a sign quoting John Stuart Mill “Landlords Get Rich In Their Sleep.” The sign is apparently in a bank, suggesting that the bank thinks it would be a good idea for you to get a loan enabling you to own property, but the meme seems intended…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) It’s the End of the Neoliberal Era, and We Still Don’t Know What Neoliberalism Is
Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but “neoliberalism” is an especially tangled case.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The End of History (for Physics)? by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Hi Stephen, I think the basic answer to both of the points you raise is the Carroll is talking about the laws “underlying” the phenomena of everyday life. And by that, I think he means the laws that govern the physical…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The End of History (for Physics)? by David Potts
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Hi Roderick, As a general point, I’m inclined to think that if different aspects of a single property are logically separable, then they are separate properties. Any property, I think, already is an aspect of reality…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
This week, we’re going to be a bit silly and talk about the recently released Royal Court, a DLC expansion for Paradox’s medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings III, because I think it is attempting something fairly interesting that relatively few strategy games do. This isn’t going to be a review – there are a…
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