Mill explains why #utilitarianism and #Epicureanism consider especially important the pleasures swine (or dogs) cannot experience. #philosophy
on 02026-09-03Albert Nock’s essay about how the prophet Isaiah was unappreciated except by a “remnant” of Judea, apparently in his last few years before becoming anti-Semitic, but apparently already deeply sexist and elitist, condemning the #USA as so worthless as to demonstrate the worthlessness of the masses who ruled it. It’s hard not to think Moldbug was consciously emulating Nock’s prose style. #politics #philosophy
on 02026-01-16Pierre Rochard’s “Working and Saving are Revolutionary Acts.” I’m not convinced! #philosophy #politics #economics
on 02026-01-16#ebook of #Russell’s “The Problems of #Philosophy”
on 02025-11-11The turkey’s inductive reasoning fallacy originated in Bertrand #Russell’s 01912 “The Problems of #Philosophy” #epistemology
on 02025-11-11#History of Greek #philosophy and in particular how #Anaxagoras got banished
on 02025-11-07#history of #philosophy, rationalism vs. empiricism
on 02025-08-12#Utilitarianism in Spanish. #moral #philosophy #ethics
on 02023-03-09Popper on Negative #utilitarianism. #moral #philosophy #ethics
on 02023-03-09Negative #utilitarianism #moral #philosophy. #ethics
on 02023-03-09What is #altruism? Does altruism exist? Self and others: some radical metaphysical alternatives. Why care about others? Kant on sympathy and duty. Sentimentalism revisited. #ethics #moral #philosophy
on 02023-03-09the historical development of #utilitarianism as a #moral #philosophy via Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick, etc. #ethics
on 02023-02-19about relativist #philosophy and in particular anti-materialist alethic relativism
on 02021-12-19Huemer’s "In Praise of Passivity" #paper, Studia Humana 1,2 (2012): 12-28. #epistemology #philosophy #politics #passivism
Abstract: “Political actors, including voters, activists, and leaders, are often ignorant of basic facts relevant to policy choices. Even experts have little understanding of the working of society and little ability to predict future outcomes. Only the most simple and uncontroversial political claims can be counted on. This is partly because political knowledge is very difficult to attain, and partly because individuals are not sufficiently motivated to attain it. As a result, the best advice for political actors is very often to simply stop trying to solve social problems, since interventions not based on precise understanding are likely to do more harm than good.”
on 02021-06-05Faré's "Passivism" #paper. Interestingly, he uses the term “#propertarian,” approvingly, then moves on to a rather radical proposal for what sounds like worldwide insurrection by property owners. #politics #epistemology #philosophy
on 02021-06-05on the #epistemology of being sane in a crazy world. #philosophy
on 02021-06-04Camus’s “indomitable summer” quote from Return to Tipasa #philosophy
on 02021-06-04#Stoic #philosophy
on 02021-06-04#liberal #philosophy of #poitics
on 02021-05-29#utilitarianism #moral #philosophy #ethics
on 02021-05-29John Stuart #Mill’s #moral #philosophy and #utilitarianism #ethics
on 02021-05-29Plato’s Republic #philosophy #politics #classics
on 02016-10-11Susan Wolfe’s 1982 #philosophy #paper on “moral saints” #pdf
on 02016-01-01#philosophy on the social construction of reality and the #politics of abandoning the project of empirical knowledge.
on 02015-11-29workers’ #human-rights are not being protected, and “Libertarians” don’t care. Perfect rebuttal of Libertarian dogmas: “Libertarians claim that freedom is their core value and that it’s maximized when the state refrains from interfering in the private choices of individuals. They also believe, however—as every sensible person should—that individual freedom can be curtailed by private action. In fact, the idea that private action can diminish individual freedom is central to their justification for the state, which is that some state coercion is required to stop people from dominating, enslaving, and generally harming others. We all do better on the metric of freedom, libertarians agree, if the state makes and enforces “traffic rules” for private persons.” #politics #philosophy #ethics
on 02015-11-19Hamming’s longer sequel to Wigner’s more famous “unreasonable effectiveness of mathetmatics” article. #philosophy #epistemology
on 02015-11-19Wigner’s famous “The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences” #philosophy #epistemology
on 02015-11-19Tractatus logico-philosophicus, parallel texts in German, the Ogden translation, and the Pears/McGuinness translation, in tasteful pastel colors. #philosophy #Wittgenstein
on 02015-11-16explains how the Stanford #Encyclopedia of #Philosophy is funded and edited: several dozen already-well-known “subject editors” choose topics and invite writers, which is basically the standard encyclopedia model. Authors and subject editors work for free, Stanford pays its four FTEs, and they’ve gotten the rest paid for by grants (US$2M over 15 years) and by “one-time contributions” from academic libraries, which goes into an SEP endowment, which is now US$3M (US$2M from contributors, the rest from Stanford); this is backed by a money-back guarantee if the SEP shuts down. 10% of the budget comes from a “friends of the SEP” program which gives you PDFs for a few bucks a year. #open-access #academia
on 02015-11-16#bayesian #statistics #philosophy #toread
on 02015-08-05“all fictions — and fictions may be all we have — are retreats from reality rather than approaches to it” #games #predictions #sociology #philosophy
on 02015-08-05The #philosophy of #computer-science, including semantics, ontology, correctness, abstraction, #computability, etc.
on 02015-08-05