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In memory of the inventor of this ingenious argument and its faithful reporter, both recently lost: “Is the ontological argument…
I did not know Timothy Smiley well, and his pioneering joint book on Plural Logics is sitting on my shelves…
Smiley cowrote the single best introduction to his field (formally and otherwise) I think will ever be written. I’m grateful…
Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…
This is exactly right. I’m a writer, and this is already accepted by the literary reading public: the human origin…
Dear Robert of Invisible America, Having read your outstandingly interesting comments here, I would now very much like to have…
A development economist comments. Not everything he says is right, but some of it is! As we have noted before, the prize was created by the Bank of Sweden to enhance the status of neoliberal economic theory with an eye ultimately to changing social democratic policies in Sweden.
(Thanks to Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin for the pointer.)
> These are obviously two different things, but my sense is that part of the…paradigm shift that resulted in infinitely…