Digressionsimpressions
Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack:
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On Manent on Liberalism; with Montesquieu on polarization and patronageopen.substack.com 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 of the last decade, as evidence that the age of...
On Norm-Engineering a Moral Future.open.substack.com 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 philosophers at Purdue University in Indiana) diagno...
On Gaus' criticism of Berlin.digressionsimpressions.substack.com 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 non-Darwinian example of synthetic philosophy. This is, by t...
On Gaus' criticism of Berlin.open.substack.com 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 non-Darwinian example of synthetic philosophy. This is, by t...
On the Neurath/Morris-Kallen debate over Orchestration and/or Unity of Scientific languageopen.substack.com 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 to obtain 1940 paper), but primarily conducted ...