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Digressionsimpressions

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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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Yes?

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I am afraid I forgot who recommended sue Burke's Semiosis to me. But thank you. I was incredibly gripped by it.

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Yes, I have noticed that, but falsely assumed the direction went the other way

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In Russian?

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I assumed the influence went in the other direction. Nice yo know

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Nearly all I think. My favorite is player of games

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I have started my holiday in style

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In fairness to SCOTUS; it's pretty good at representing the long-term interests of American lawyers to ensure the open-ended increase of the amount of litigation in the system.

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Maybe amusing to @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @chrisbrooke.bsky.social, @liberalcurrents.com, @jcherniss.bsky.social

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On Manent on Liberalism; with Montesquieu on polarization and patronage open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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The great thing about having splendid friends is that you get excellent, insightful comments on a near complete draft; the downside is you realise the draft is far from completed.
#zenoandturtleinchingback

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My darn autocorrect replaced hummus with Hume's

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On Norm-Engineering a Moral Future. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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Today's post defends isiah Berlin from some of Gaus' criticism.
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On Gaus' Criticism of Berlin
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One good reason not to follow the style sheet of a press is that when after acceptance you have to redo the references you discover you mistakenly cited Voltaire when you should have cited Condorcet.
#protip

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Touche! I tend to think of the Marburg school as rather bourgeois:) (and have thought of writing on some of them). But i didn't realise 'left kantianism' was a nod to Marburg. Now I have to reconsider my nope.

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Whenever I see a conference announced, I think 'I wonder if I have a paper on that' and start musing on topics, but the Left Kantianism workshop made me think 'nope'

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On the Neurath/Morris-Kallen debate over Orchestration and/or Unity of Scientific language open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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If you like my blogging you may find Cyril Hédoin of interest

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Well, I think teaching and research are rather valuable for all kinds of intrinsic reasons, so agreed!

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I think responsible expertise is surely possible, but I am less optimistic about responsible uptake

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@chrisbrooke.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social maybe amusing. @annaalexandrova.bsky.social

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Yes, to be reflexive in that way is a tough standpoint to achieve

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Don't I get to that in the final paragraph?

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On Chomsky and the responsibility of intellectuals

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Indeed

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@hermwerf.bsky.social he seems to be alive still fwiw

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I think his claims about srebenica were ultimately mistaken (and plausibly due to his mistrust of mainstream media). I have views on gaza and also his stance but thats for another time.

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I am seeing reports online that Noam Chomsky has died. I think he was the intellectual I find it most difficult to disagree with because his views were so well-informed, so well articulated, and they came from such a humane place. The age of giants is passing. RIP

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Reichenbach and Spinozism open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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The book or the juxtaposition in the pic?

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A bit on Reichenbach’s slide from ethics to politics

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Ib Cohen (Newton scholar) told me he never responded to scholarly criticism. I dislike that position. But I can see the wisdom in it.

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Correct answer to the second question: Fuck no, have you lost your mind?

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Genuinely shocked to read this from a Dean.

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1. I think Reichenbach's claim that our moral life is a hodgepodge is correct. 2. I also think he is right to predict we won't arrive at a final moral theory (unless there is a homogeneous world state).

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What is it about this passage that rubs you the wrong way?

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In the post, I link to Christian Damböck's paper that suggests there is more distance between his student views and the later ones. But I am happy for folk to trace more continuities. I do think it's odd that this book figures into a de-politicization narrative, but about that another time more

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