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Yeah to be fair journalistic standards have been falling steadily our whole lifetimes through! Add to that the scurge of the clickbaits and teases favoured by sub-editors. I remember reading a long and woolly article picking a minor fault in Darwin's (century-old) biology which was very incidental t...

Also, Schopenhauer was NOT punk, but only because he was unmistakeably very Goth.

Have I mentioned yet today that Sartre was a fraud? He was to Soviet Communism what Heidegger was to the Nazi party, but in spite of that some (French) nationalism leaked into his mindset from his study of Hegel the arch-nationalist. I recall him saying that he didn't believe in the guilt of those p...

HT Mill was an ardent feminist and probably more egalitarian and in tune with her emotions than John Stuart. Hume's use of the comma does not belong in a sentence with the word style - 18th century English is often cumbersome, and he was a popular writer in his day.... All the same I wish this impre...

aicontentisbad.jpg It seems that every time I find something I'm good at, a computer can do it cheaper! Not better. But cheaper. And faster. This happened a few years back with outreach research, and now AI content is taking over the internet too. In fact a lot of groups already are one big circle-...

philosophersrankedbypunkcred.jpg What does everyone think of this? I would dock Marx, and having heard (at second-hand from his biography) that John Stuart Mill was picked up by the 5-0 for distributing birth control literature and taken to the magistrates for obscenity, I'd give him a little bump ...

Hot take: The books are disgusting because history is disgusting when done right!

"One way in which the bar is sometimes set too high for patients who are trying to access assisted suicide is by broadening the scope of decision-making capacity evaluations too far beyond issues of capacity. One example of this is using an inappropriately high standard of ‘stability’ of attitu...

Sycorax: I just finished reading the linked Wikipedia article about Belle, and would be interested in reading (English translations of) her letters. Is there any good commentary website about them, and are the English translations freely available somewhere? I'm not fluent in French unfortunately, I...

To be fair prison is just as expensive as mental health treatment and politicians have no qualms about mandating that people be sent there, but.... In this instance I would not be surprised if politicians did see the mentally ill - even this apparently bright and strongwilled young woman - as "...