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In the context of this blog, I am somewhat surprised nobody has mentioned Nietzsche! “What then is truth? … a…
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…
If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
Everyone should read this. Although Trump is a colossal screw up whose support is collapsing thanks to his incompetence, he has laid the foundation for massive political repression, for which the midterm elections seem the likely trigger given that the Republicans will lose in a free and fair election.
UPDATE: A scenario for how the midterm coup might unfold and be stopped. (Thanks to Howard Berman for the pointer.)
Indeed that remark resonates with our topic, but note that it comes from a very early and never published essay.…