Category: Substack
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A Hot Sauce Rant from 2013
A hot (sauce rant) or a (hot sauce) rant? Both. Parentheses matter! Scope matters. All scope distinctions matter. Mind your p's and q's. Discriminate operators and operands. (Am I sending a coded message?) Substack latest. Don't complain about 'old news.' What are you, a Twitterized 'woke' presentist? There is presentism in the philosophy of time…
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It Pays to Publish . . .
. . . but don't pay to publish. Leader of the Stack.
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Consciousness is an Illusion . . .
. . . but truth is not? An inconsistency in Dennett. Over at the Stack.
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Can Consciousness be Explained?
Top o' the Stack. Dennett debunked!
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Beware the Ides of March!
At Substack and elsewhere. If you make it to the end of the day, you may want to quaff in celebration the libation, The Ides of March.
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Inheritance and Appropriation
Resist the erasure of our culture. Substack latest.
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Do You Really Want to Teach at a University?
Substack latest. Do you want to feed the unhungry in a leftist seminary? Comments and replies: Tony: One of the best, and certainly the most concise, essays on the problem. The mild criticism when I was at NYU was that the universities were offering "higher skilling." Higher infantilization was right around the corner. Bill: Thanks,…
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On Independent Thinking
Substack latest.
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The Eremitic Option
Top o' the Stack.
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Bad Stuff: Badiou
Top o' the Stack. ………………………. On 03/03/2023 17:29, William F. Vallicella from Philosophy in Progress wrote: And I say this as someone who has read practically all of Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Gadamer, a crapload of Derrida (who, according to John Searle, gives bullshit a bad name) and plenty of others besides. I know Continental…
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God as Human Projection?
Substack latest Del Noce deciphered; Feuerbach refused. …………………… Update (3/3): Substack informs me: "After 24 hours, your public post has had 2,234 views." (Note that if a reader accesses my post n times (n > 1), that counts as one view.) Curious, in that I have at present only 1,200 subscribers. And why should this…
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Bullshitting and Lying
Top o' the Stack.
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Is Sin a Fact?
Substack latest. A passage from G. K. Chesteron examined.
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Running as Equalizer?
Top o' the Stack. ……………………… Malcolm Pollack comments: I liked your brief post on running-as-equalizer, and how stubbornly our natural inequalities will always dash our hope of sweeping them under the rug. ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.") There's even another natural inequality you didn't touch on,…