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pete wolfendale
deontologistics
This morning I'm pondering some early influences on my thinking that I don't talk about so much: Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' and the later Wittgenstein, especially On Certainty. These
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Here's another dose of philosophical-political sole searching for the morning. People often tell me to apply for things: jobs, postdocs, competitions, blind submissions of various kinds, and my default answer
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Okay. So my paternal grandfather smoked 60 a day and died from a heart attack in his 50s. Similar story for my maternal grandmother. One grandparent out of 4 made
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I used to intensely dislike the phrase: ‘that’s an exception that proves the rule.’ Yet I’ve come to like it recently, if it’s read as: ‘that’s representative insofar as it’s
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There are two lines of thought about 'concepts' in philosophy: one that sees them as shared ideals (either metaphysically (Plato/Frege) or socially (Hegel/Brandom)), and one that sees them as cognitive
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I endeavour to be an open book, because everything else makes me anxious. That's it. It's not complicated. This is one reason I've just put my real face on my
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One for the radical Rawlsians I've seen out and about. You know what the veil of ignorance looks like when you realise such abstract mutual recognition in the form of
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Best short explanation of the GameStop phenomenon I’ve seen so far.https://twitter.com/mrbrowneyes2020/status/1354517067240771584 I suppose that my main takeaway from this is that r/wallstreetbets has enough collective consciousness to co
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What happens to our explanatory/predictive models of UK politics if we drop the assumption that the Tories are actually committed to preserving the Union, as opposed to say, maximising resource
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I have a lot of disagreements with @slatestarcodex, but this is genuinely one of the best essays I’ve ever read about death and personal autonomy:https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/ The only thing that beats
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So, here’s a way of reframing this question: which societies enabled coexistence and collaboration between people with divergent social styles, rather than imposing a dominant social style? Such social pluralism
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This is what happens when you train neural networks largely on tone and its stylistic relics. They pick up formal features of arguments (not so much fallacies as tics) that
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