Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (4) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Scientific journal articles are much easier to write than philosophical ones, and get churned out in much larger quantities. When I worked at the OR, I made a point of spending an hour after every shift trawling through th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (4) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I love those guys to pieces. LikeLike
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(QC RSS) Grave Revelations
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (4) by Roderick T. Long
“For a thorough, well-argued critique of college-level grading, see Jason Brennan and Philip Magness” There you are again, always sucking up to Jason and Phil. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (4) by Roderick T. Long
I think I discussed this in our last reading group meeting, but a couple of years ago we discovered that the philosophy departments we thought of as the ones for us to emulate were entirely different from those the College had in mind, and in particula…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Desert and Merit (3) by Desert and Merit (4) | Policy of Truth
[…] a previous post, I criticized George Sher’s view that merit-based desert is based on (recognition of) […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Desert and Merit (4)
In a previous post, I criticized George Sher’s view that merit-based desert is based on (recognition of) existing conventions of merits. In these cases, the existing rules are already fashioned to reward merit in a justified way, so that justice (in the sense of rewarding desert) consists simply in acknowledging that a given person satisfies…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) Red Markets
Sometimes communist countries had to tolerate a little economic liberty just to survive.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Attention Must Be Paid: The Joys of Third-Party Voting by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Vote for me, and I’ll set ya free!” LikeLike
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