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Against Clarity, again (with some Stebbing and Diplomatic practice)
Susan Stebbing’s Thinking to Some Purpose (1939) appeared in the Pelican imprint.
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On Green Politics this week
I have been a professional scholar for more than two decades with a lengthy CV full of publications on a wide diversity of topics. In addition, I have…
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June 2024

Long Covid Diaries: Summer Break
When I moved Digressions to Substack, I had hoped I could write my way to a new career mix with more time for reflection. But I have learned that the…
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On Manent on Liberalism; with Montesquieu on polarization and patronage
If one pays attention to the flight of Hegelian owls, one might take the avalanche of works on the history of liberalism, alongside the political events…
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On Norm-Engineering a Moral Future.
In an entertaining essay [HT: Dailynous] in a recent issue of Aeon (21 June 2024), “Moral progress is annoying,” Daniel Kelly and Evan Westra (both…
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On Gaus' criticism of Berlin.
For readers who like this kind of stuff, I have uploaded a revised draft of my “Synthetic Philosophy: A restatement.” It now includes a new…
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On the Neurath/Morris-Kallen debate over Orchestration and/or Unity of Scientific language
In How the cold war transformed philosophy of science (2005), George Reisch calls attention to a debate set off in 1939 (and published in as of yet hard…
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On Chomsky and the Responsibility of Intellectuals
Yesterday the internet fooled me into thinking that Noam Chomsky had died.
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Reichenbach and Spinozism
One of the minor oddities of Reichenbach’s (1951) The Rise of Scientific Philosophy is the repeated explicit references to Spinoza (four times spaced…
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Reichenbach's tempered Machiavellian ethical politics
Logic does not compel me to do anything.—Reichenbach, The rise of Scientific of Philosophy, p. 294.
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On Condorcet and Tucker on Locke as a democratic majoritarian
A few days ago, I noted (recall) that in Condorcet’s (1794) Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind Locke is not a social…
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On Liberal Democracy as Identity Formation
Earlier in the week (recall) I wrote about the structure of a trope in which some object of interest — the nation, the market, leadership — is the…
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