Analytic philosophers are like: “I call this problem ‘Quine’s trilemma’ but I do not wish to suggest by that that I think it is related in any way to Quine’s work, is a trilemma, or is a problem.”
Meanwhile, Tesla's new lithium refinery in Corpus Christi just got a cease and desist letter for dumping toxic waste into the sewer system.
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I do not trust people who are only willing to work with the union if they are also leading the union,
most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters
these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators
Critics on social media called the rhetoric from Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) “unvarnished gutter racism” and likened it to “Nazi propaganda.”
haven't tapped the sign in a while: "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" when and how you are able
Alright, pack it in, this industry’s fuckin cooked
Why is my feed always the place where normies find out that most professors don’t have health insurance and that disorganised prof you hated freshman year had no teaching experience and no one told them where the copy machine was?
What I’m saying is I’m available to do comms for your faculty union
TIL Dersh wasn’t already a Republican
It is indeed twenty pizzas in a red sauce
Today, over a year later, l'affaire Kripke is still alive. The colloquium papers--Smith's original, Soames's response, and Smith's counter-response--have recently been published in the philosophy journal Synthese. And the two adversaries are currently busy refining their briefs in another pair of papers of even greater length--Smith's latest draft is almost 70 pages. Meanwhile, such philosophical eminences as Elizabeth Anscombe, Donald Davidson, and Thomas Nagel have signed a letter to the APA asserting that "a session at a national APA meeting is not the proper forum in which to level ethical accusations against a member of our profession, even if the charges were plausibly defended." The letter, which was published in the association's quarterly proceedings, goes on to demand that the APA issue a public apology to Kripke.
Bummer that the philosophy internet didn't really exist in 1994 like it does now. I would have spent weeks reading multiple 600+ comment threads about all this.
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Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Their vision of the future is the 1970s.
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Pizza al Tonno e Cipolla when done properly
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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But I was told it was Obama that would conduct the Death Panels
This is extraordinary…..
The damage done by not holding politicians to any norms of evidence is inestimable
Besides everything else, this is utterly false about my old elite institution. I routinely gave people bad grades. On occasion I failed people. And yet no Dean ever summoned me to their office to complain.
Make a cartoon philosophical:
Casper, The Friendly Absolute Spirit
I have taught at universities for 35+ years and no Dean has ever asked me to change a grade for any reason. I don’t give all As.
He’s not tormented; he’s pivoting to his next grift
Liberals are always railing against war. So why aren't they celebrating Pete Hegseth's destruction of the U.S. Army from within?
Why can’t they figure out that staying home is the thing to do??
RFK2 is one of history’s greatest monsters
So that weird thing in the Oval with Joe Rogan was Trump violating the protocols of the FDA? Super….
There is some spectacular stuff in Newer Ideals of Peace (1907) if you are doing any pragmatism as political philosophy and esp James’s Moral Equivalent of War. It is on archive.org.
