Category: Substack
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The Dictionary Fallacy
Substack latest Check out today's Facebook rant for something a bit more edgy.
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The Cartesian Dream Argument and an Austinian Contrast Argument
In this Substack entry I defend the Frenchman against the Englishman. Continentals 1 – Insular Islanders 0. A number of contrast arguments are examined.
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The Riddle of Evil and the Pyrrhonian ‘Don’t Care’
Substack latest on the aporetics of evil. Today I preach upon a text from Karl Jaspers wherein he comments on St. Augustine (Plato and Augustine, ed. Arendt, tr. Mannheim, Harcourt 1962, p. 110): In interminable discussions, men have tried to sharpen and clarify this contradiction: on the one hand, evil is a mere clouding of…
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Is A.I. Killing the World Wide Web?
From The Economist: As AI changes how people browse, it is altering the economic bargain at the heart of the internet. Human traffic has long been monetised using online advertising; now that traffic is drying up. Content producers are urgently trying to find new ways to make AI companies pay them for information. If they cannot, the open web…
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Against Verbal Inflation
There's too damned much 'reaching out' going on. A Substack protest.
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Philosophy from the Twilight Zone: “The Lonely”
Substack latest. With a tip of the sweat-stained hat to Elliot Crozat and Brian Bosse for stimulating discussion.
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The Danger of Appeasing the Intolerant
A Stack post that draws upon the great Leszek Kolakowski. Short, sweet, hard-hitting.
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Postmarked Utopia
Ed Farrell, a long-time friend and reader of Maverick Philosopher since April 2010, tells me that he has a Substack up and running, entitled Postmarked Utopia. Please do bring him some traffic. Here is the initial paragraph of his inaugural post: I've called this site "Postmarked Utopia" not because I live in Utopia but because…
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A ‘Progressive’ Paradox
How 'progressive' is it to be stuck in the past? Substack latest.
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Boethius and the Second Death of Oblivion
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The Atheist
Substack latest. A rumination 'inspired' by Paul Brunton. An embedded article confronts Sam Harris, one of the "four horsemen" of the New Atheism, which is now old hat. As old hat as the expression I just used. There's nothing new under the sun, saith the Preacher, and in these hyperkinetic times, what's new gets old…
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Why Do Some Physicists Talk Nonsense about Nothing?
Wherein I shovel some (un?)seriously scientistic caca into the sewer of nada.
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Hypocrisy: Two Observations
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