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Scientific Models and Political Decision-Making (on Winsberg & Harvard)
Some Spinozistic Themes in Seneca's Letter 58.
Going Meta on The Flavour of Truth and culture wars.
On Douglas on Beatitude in Spinoza, part II
A personal remembrance of Dan Dennett (1942-2024)
Some Spinoza on Sin and the Fall with Alex Douglas (and some Dan Dennett)
Lorenzini's overreach on Foucault (with some Feyerabend and Rorty)
On Defeat in Ukraine, and Liberal International Politics
Morgenbesser, Imperialism, Adam Smith, and the usefulness of philosophy
Foucault, Lorenzini, and Spinoza on Games of Truth (with some Carnap and Tarski).
On Synthetic Philosophy; or Williamson vs Kitcher, again.
Okay, effective altruism and shallow ponds, again. On Pettigrew's Criticism of Wenar (etc.)
On Wallas, Mill, The Great Society, and the Art of Government
Leibniz, Ibn Tufayl and the pre-history of a famous thought experiment anew (oh Mary)
Foucault, Cryptonormativity (via Kolodny and Lorenzini)
On Travel through Darkness; On Letter 57
On Hayek and Smith on the/a Great Society
On Academic Freedom and Institutional Neutrality (Jacob T. Levy)
The Sooty Empiric's Suspicions of Liberalism reconsidered.
On Gaus and Kukathas on the nature of an Open Society, and toleration.
RIP Howard Stein January 21, 1929-8 March, 2024
On Williamson, Kitcher, and the uptake of analytic philosophy
Smith and Montesquieu on a Platonic passage, and the fate of Spontaneous Order.
Adam Smith on Commercial Society; On Paul Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered, Pt 2
Smith on the art of government, corruption, and tax policy
Humboldt and Mill on harmful speech, liberty, and shunning
State Political Epistemology in (and at the start of) Wealth of Nations
Humboldt, Public Epistemology, and Professional Certification
Condorcet and the origin of Patriarchy
Long Covid Diaries: downs and ups
Wilhelm von Humboldt on Slavery and the Snobbishness of the Philosophers
Feyerabend, Open Exchange, and Collective Decision-making
Newton, Fontenelle, Aesthetic Cosmology, and Extinction.
Manon Garcia and the new Sexual Revolution
Feyerabend and Mill on Transformative Experience and Science's Authority.
Bentham and Foucault on Biopolitics and Political Epistemology
On the Crisis of Liberalism (IX); the housing accessibility shortage.
On the very idea of Special Sciences
Bertrand Russell on Locke as the Philosopher of the Global Social Contract
Bertrand Russell, Platonic Myths, and Japan
Adam Smith, Mercantilism, and the Caricature of Locke (on the origins of liberalism)
On the ICJ (SOUTH AFRICA v. ISRAEL)
A Digression on Mill and Foucault; and Hacking.
On Williamson, Kitcher, The Great Endarkenment (pt. II) and Meta-Expertise
On early Friedrich Engels on Adam Smith and the theorist's responsibility for consequences.
Montesquieu and Spinoza on Federalism (with a whiff of Adam Smith)
The State as Machinery of Record or as Witness of Truth. On Pink on Vallier and Catholic Integralism
On Old and New Federalism: William Penn, Constant, Adam Smith, and Jacob Levy ,
On the recursive Utopian tradition in Modernity, Jerusalem and Athens.
Friedrich Engels, Foucault on Chicago Economics and the social demand for criminality.
Kendall on Locke on Majority Rule, (With Some Blackstone, Adam Smith, and federalism.)