Jason Brennan, a younger philosopher at Georgetown, has taken occasional swipes at me on Facebook and other forums. The last time he did so, I responded publicly, which led to some back and forth argument. Not happy with the direction of the discussion, Brennan then deleted the entire thread. So this time I’m posting his […]
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I’m happy to be joining some of today’s brightest minds at thinkspot, a new free-speech-absolutist alternative to Patreon, YouTube, and other sites that have struggled with de-platforming and shadow-banning. The site initially features twelve thinkers — including Jordan Peterson, Heather MacDonald, Gregg Hurwitz, and James Altucher — and I’m honored to be included in that
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The economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk arguing, in the 1890s, against the beloved-by-Marxists labor theory of value: “Value and effort, as I have stated at length in another place, are not ideas so intimately connected that one is forced immediately to adopt the view that effort is the basis of value. ‘That I have toiled over
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I’m optimistic about young people and market feedback loops. One minute excerpted from my 2019 conversation at JBP’s site.
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Martin Heidegger’s poetic line from his later “Letter on Humanism” (1947): “Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.” Variations: For those of modest means: “Man dwells in the bungalow of Being.” For those on the road a lot: “Man dwells in the Holiday Inn of Being.” For rustic campers: “Man dwells
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Russian translation of *Battle for the Soul of the University* Spanish translation of *Nietzsche and the Nazis* — Kindle edition Persian translation of “Hitler and the Death of Free Speech” Polish translation of “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” Hebrew translation of *The Battle for the Soul of the University is Raging* Arabic
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During my SoHo Forum debate with Thaddeus Russell in New York, I offered to send sources for the quotations I used. My claims were that philosophy had fallen into an unusually skeptical place in the middle of the 20th century, and that the first-generation postmodernists absorbed and applied that skepticism. Thanks to the debate audience
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Condorcet, “Reflections on Negro Slavery” (1781). Jean-François Lyotard, “The Sublime and the Avant-Garde,” Chapter 7 of The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (1991). W. V. O. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1951). James Rachels, “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” (1999). Max Shulman, “Love Is
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