#Kantian

Branko Milanovic

There are two huge illusions that have complete disconnect w/ reality as lived by people and that feed two literatures.1) The idea that people will suddenly turn become altruistic and

FocusedCompound

This Navy captain letter story is incredibly fasinating"Trump says Navy captain letter asking for help on coronavirus-stricken ship ‘was terrible’"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/04/trump-says-navy-captain-letter-asking-for-help-on-coronavirus

Part of the issue with FEP frameworks is its choice of ontological setting. By situating the theoretical observer within the organism, looking out, it adopts a Kantian perspective. This opens

Tweets around this photo of Primrose Hill are trending, and so is a debate in this form:: This is terrible! Sunbathing is not exercise & this people should stay home.

Jonathan Basile·BLM

I think the best way of understanding "cancel culture" is by invoking the Lacanian distinction between the imaginary and the symbolic. Being "against" cancel culture immediately cancels itself, because it

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

What is Gnon? It stands for “nature or nature’s god”, and the acronym is reversed because “nong” sounds terrible, aesthetics matter Gnon is an adapter. It gives people with differing

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problem_halting

i think the entire interaction is perfectly reasonable: tone-deaf professor teaching a class he's not qualified to teach, a dedicated and bright student pushing back, hopefully leading to a productive

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Next: Donald Hoffman’s Case against reality This is an excellent book, it's basic premise is Kantian transcendental idealism, the idea of the world, according to Kant is that there is

I have some thoughts about Karen Ng’s new book, Hegel’s Concept of Life, which I plan to incorporate in an upcoming article on the status of life in the Science

The Melkite Kid

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The Ontological argument (non-modal)P1. There does not exist a being such that none greater can be conceived [assumption for reductio]P2. For all beings whose existence can be negated, that being

William_J_Mason

[1] What is care? Some reflections from my first reading of ‘The Ethics of Care’ by Virginia Held (2006) [2] This has been a challenging read & one that has

Kevin Jon Heller

This is a great thread — but it’s important to emphasise that there is no “correct” method of academic writing. Perhaps “write shit first and quickly” and then edit is

Which philosopher-signaling term/s are most likely to instead reveal the opposite? #philosophyBuckle in. A thread. (It’s OK to unbuckle. That was just clickbait.)OK, back to question.Options:A) Using the term “epistemology”

Some recent Uber drives and conversations (so long ago I was in an Uber!) about the vaccines make me think about misinformation and how important epistemic rights are. Many of

Constantino Xavier

Thread 3/7:MultilateralismMust India’s foreign affairs strategy change?S. Menon, India (Brookings)Alyssa Ayres, USA (CFR)Justin Vaisse, France (PPF)Dino P. Djalal, Indonesia (FPCI)Rory Medcalf, Australia (ANU)Transcript + video:https://ww

Piracy is literally the main thing worth praise about the internet. It's unequivocally extremely good. It means freeer and more equal access to culture for people who would otherwise have