Category: Substack
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Can You Get Through the Next Hour?
The Stoic method of division. At Substack.
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Kant on Suicide
Substack latest, with quotations from the forgotten Paul Ludwig Landsberg.
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The Most Powerful Argument Against Religious Faith Ever?
Today at Substack.
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On Her Deathbed
Substack latest. "I fear that there is nothing on the other side."
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Negativity: The Spirit of the Left
Top o' the Stack.
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W. K. Clifford
I take a poke at his main claim to fame over at Substack. (What work does 'over' do in the preceding sentence? None at all. But I like the sound of it. So stet.)
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Will Science Put Religion out of Business?
A tilt at transhumanism. Substack latest.
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The Childless as Anthropological Danglers
Top o' the Stack. The Austrian philosopher and Vienna Circle member Herbert Feigl wrote about nomological danglers. Mental states as the epiphenomenalist conceives them have causes, but no effects. They are caused by physical states of the body and brain, but dangle nomologically in that there are no laws that relate mental states to physical…
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Why Am I So Happy?
Top o' the Stack.
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Unusual Experiences and the Problems of Overbelief and Underbelief
Substack latest. One day, well over 40 years ago, I was deeply tormented by a swarm of negative thoughts and feelings that had arisen because of a dispute with a certain person. Pacing around my apartment, I suddenly, without any forethought, raised my hands toward the ceiling and said, "Release me!" It was a wholly spontaneous cri de…
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On Blaming the Victim
Top o' the Stack.
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The Pragmatic and the Evidential
Substack latest. On believing beyond the evidence. Immoral? Irrational?
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Why Did Communism Fail?
Top o' the Stack.
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Jerking Toward Social Collapse
Substack latest.
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Expressive Individualism
Is Trump an example? Substack latest.