Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Desert and Merit (5)
In a concluding section near the end of his chapter on desert and merit, George Sher makes a final, and to my mind puzzling claim, or set of them. Here’s the relevant passage, at length: When someone satisfies criteria of performance established by fixed sets of conventions, he ought to receive whatever prizes, recognition, or…
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(QC RSS) Got It Backwards
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(The GiveWell Blog) December 2021 open thread
Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section below). As always, you’re also welcome to email us at info@givewell.org or to request a call with GiveWell staff if you have feedback or questions you’d…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Heh, I didn’t know the links would manifest that way. Always a surprise with WordPress. You can also download the files though. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression by Roderick T. Long
In reply to boydstun. Here they are: Click to access mann-germany-germans.pdf Click to access mann-nietzsche-contemporary.pdf I assign these pamphlets as part of my “Nietzsche and Modern Literature” course (where modern literature is repres…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Oh, Ryan by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. No, you’re dead wrong. I read Peikoff’s book on Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature, and thought it was excellent. Fight me. Question: is it actually “by” Peikoff? I couldn’t quite figure out the identity of the author on such …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression by boydstun
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’ve not known of those and would like to read them. Thanks. Grateful if you can readily get the PDFs to us. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. (If not, and you’re interested, I can hook you up with PDFs.) LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression by Roderick T. Long
In reply to boydstun. Have you read Thomas Mann’s 1945-47 pamphlets “Germany and the Germans” and “Nietzsche in the Light of Contemporary Events”? LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Oh, Ryan by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. She lost her hair but kept her comb; she just can’t part with it. (Sorry not sorry.) “if this is the mess he makes of O. Henry, I can only imagine what he’d do with Anna Karenina or Middlemarch.” You should…
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