John Lanchester · The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We’re Going Anyway: The Belgian Solution · LRB 8 September 2011.
Sport Murphy, “Sing Me To Sleep” [Live in Sport's backyard] – YouTube.
Age of Outrage – NYTimes.com.
Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again—By Kevin Baker (Harper’s Magazine). This piece strikes me as fitting (and prescient) in the current circumstances.
Here Blackburn, too, is unimpressed (here is another underwhelmed reviewer). I haven’t read this particular iteration of Parfit’s view yet, but from what I have previously, I give him credit for his ‘quietism’. If your are going to be a normative realist (in the philosophical sense of that term), then own up to the fact … Continue reading
The Credentialed Society – By Michael Walsh – The Corner – National Review Online. I am quite in sympathy with the argumentative point of this piece; higher education, such as it presently is, is overvalued by both suppliers (in terms of what they charge for it and what they promise by it) and by consumers … Continue reading
On page 12 of “The Problem of Objectivity” (in the 2004 collection Problems of Rationality), Davidson, in the course of arguing for a holistic understanding of the mental, says the following:
Possessing the concept of error might well be necessary for thinking even though it is impossible to make an error in thinking.
“The important point, however, is that there must be some normative principles bearing on PAs [propositional attitudes] to the effect that we ought to modify our PAs because of how they are. Rational normative principles are of the form that if one has such and such PAs then one ought to modify them in such … Continue reading
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