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Book Review: ‘Time for Socialism,’ by Thomas Piketty – The New York Times
According to the New York Times’ Book Review of ‘Time for Socialism,’ by Thomas Piketty , Piketty calls for a “universal capital endowment” for all citizens beginning at birth, funded by taxes on wealth and inheritances. and Though provocative, none … Continue reading
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Rediscovering Hegel
Rediscovering Hegel is not something I particularly want to do. But I did find this article quite interesting and it struck me as a good example of what I can appreciate about academic Philosophy. I do enjoy considering how people … Continue reading
Equality in Education
I am in favour of building a society in which all children have equal access to an education that meets their particular needs. But this does not mean that all of those needs are the same. Having basically taken myself … Continue reading
Transcribing Speech of the Oppressed
I was actually a bit creeped out by the excessively phonetic transcription in this harrowing account that was reproduced by Cheryl Brown in Quora’s ‘Black History & Politics’ section. Commenter Linda Keres Carter shared this feeling and started an interesting thread … Continue reading
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The Hostage Exchange is welcome (and overdue)
Of course, as the CBC reports The timing of the releases of Meng, and Spavor and Kovrig, show China clearly saw a connection between the two, several diplomats and foreign policy experts told CBC News. “China … up until now, has … Continue reading
Why doesn’t philosophy progress from debate to consensus? | Aeon Essays
Source: Why doesn’t philosophy progress from debate to consensus? | Aeon Essays My first thought on this article was to be puzzled by the idea that Molyneux problem is not trivial. Surely any person handling and feeling a sphere will … Continue reading
The world can learn from South Africa’s ideal of nonracial democracy | Aeon Essays
Challenging perspectives (|and contrary comments) on a deeply painful situation that provides a reflects our own – albeit in a strongly distorting mirror. Source: The world can learn from South Africa’s ideal of nonracial democracy | Aeon Essays
(239) If two more particles bond together to make a bigger particle, what happens to their wave functions? – Quora
The quantum state of a system of two particles is represented by a vector in the tensor product of their individual sate spaces.This is made up of linear combinations of products of state vectors (including integrals as well as finite … Continue reading
My words may have meaning, your parrot’s may too.
A recent essay by Stephen Law in Psyche Ideas, entitled My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains, is forcing me into yet another diatribe in my ongoing love-hate relationship with “philosophy”. A slogan often associated with the … Continue reading
Plastic Peril
From strangled seabirds to trapped turtles to the giant floating island and the discovery of nano-particles in the flesh of the fish we eat, we are all aware of the horrors of widely distributed plastic waste, and so it is … Continue reading
The Village Green
My friend John Butler is back in fine form churning out issues of his wonderful newsletter on a regular basis. His latest issue is a blockbuster – full of interesting, and sometimes challenging, content. It starts with an account of … Continue reading
What About a Truly Progressive Wealth Gain Tax?
The idea of a minuscule 1% Wealth tax has been promoted recently, but what I think would be better is a truly progressive tax on all wealth gains regardless of source – whether it be through employment income, capital gains, … Continue reading
What is Murder?
It’s in the last minute and a half of this video that the doctor testifying in Chauvin’s defense provides what I consider the most damning evidence for the prosecution. It relates to the difference between the last two videos in … Continue reading
Coleridge’s Theory of Ideas
Well, I have to admit that I had been completely unaware of Coleridge as a philosopher until coming upon this Aeon Essay. But on reading it I found much to like about what seems to have been his approach. In … Continue reading
Where does our “Number Sense” come from?
Source: Why do humans have numbers: are they cultural or innate? | Aeon Essays The fact that we can reliably count to 152 and distinguish it from 153 does not mean that we have a “sense” of either of those … Continue reading
Are Numbers “Real”?
This Aeon Essay about whether numbers are cultural or innate is a rerun from 2017. But I read it again and it strikes me that the claims attributed to cognitive scientist Rafael Núñez are wrong on at least two counts. … Continue reading
The Problem with “Scientism” is the Word
This is old enough that I may have already responded to it. And after more than half a century maybe I should admit defeat. But every time I see that word I re-live the indignation I felt as a 17 … Continue reading
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Death in Custody
My contempt for the fearful overreactions of police is tempered by things like this (if that goes on too long for you here’s a summary and shorter version but I actually found the initial boring bit of the longer version … Continue reading
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This Ignorance is Scary
So, apparently many nursing home staff in the US are skipping the vaccine. What scares me most about this (aside from the obvious fact that these people will potentially be carrying the virus into their clients’ living space) is what … Continue reading
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1/16/2021 1:33 GMT —Nigel Higgenbotham reports from Washundasee, in the Republic of Uzambongo“The free and fair elections that recently took place in the tiny nation of Uzambongo are now being violently rejected by the followers of current Prime Minister and … Continue reading
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