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There's an error on Korsgaard's website that makes her PhD diss unavailable for download. She knows about this. But until Chris gets around to fixing the error on her website, here's a link to a PDF of her diss "The Standpoint of Practical Reason" (1981) - drive.google.com/file/d/17oXNzt…

@eigenrobot Rawls thinks we are all equally deserving but not all equally entitled. We are entitled to what a fair system grants us. In a fair system inequalities help the worse off. This is just the oft used justification for capitalism: free markets & incentives make everyone better off.

@eigenrobot Is the system of laws & taxation one that everyone behind the veil of ignorance (as equals unaware of reasons to bias things towards themselves) would agree to? A system that lifts all boats and so improves the worst off via inequalities it allows? Then the system is fair.

john rawls and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race

@EveAinsbury Jennifer Nagel pulled this on one of her philosophy classes all semester: youtube.com/watch?v=NRAj7d…

@SIUChasmite Looks good, I'll give it a read. I'm in İstanbul and so it might be hard to get a copy. But I'll get back to you once I've read it.

@ATFyfe Oh I dunno. Just the most awesome book ever written about James’s philosophy of religion…my book!!!! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

I have a new article out this week in the journal SOPHIA and it's available open access - "The Need for God and the Problem of Evil within William James’ Moral Philosophy" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@SIUChasmite Happy to receive criticism. Thanks for giving the paper a read! What would you suggest I've overlooked?

@ATFyfe Sounds like you’ve not really understood the James you’ve read.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.

@kedilernilknuru How can I donate to help?

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@WarMonitor3 Meanwhile, the Navy has littoral combat ships built exactly for the Yemeni conflict years back and this Iran fight but they can't use for risk of loss.

@WarMonitor3 Absolutely crazy that the Air Force has spent 2+ decades trying to kill the A-10 just to buy another 2 or so F-35's. F-35's are great, so are A-10's. But A-10's have longer time on station and better ground support which the Air Force doesn't care about.

The Pentagon have doubled the amount of A10 ground attack aircraft in the Middle East potentially to support advancing ground troops-NYT

@AStrasser116 "corruption of the scientific enterprise" isn't the scientific enterprise neutral? Even if it's usually war? You think a peaceful society would invent science & have pushed it remotely as far as we have? Without war we'd still be back at Galileo even after ~600 years.

World War I was called The Chemists' War World War II was called The Physicists' War Significant fundamental scientific research for militaristic purposes seems like a corruption of the scientific enterprise

@gummibear737 You need a "just cause" to start it and clear "war aims" to end it. Not much to ask. All the complaints you are worried about are downstream of a lack of a starting just cause and an end war aim.

Western civilization may never win another war if this keeps up This is maddening. The radical left, mainstream media, and the woke right are running the exact same playbook with the US/Israel campaign against Iran as they did with Israel in Gaza They create impossible standards in terms of: -Zero Casualties -Zero Economic Disruption -Zero Uncertainty -Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission -Zero Collateral Damage And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it….same script as Gaza…the bad guys have no agency and it’s actually our fault Day 32 of the Iran war: -degraded missile factories, nuclear sites, IRGC bases, and proxy networks -the Supreme Leader is gone…and his replacement is s vegetable -all the top leadership is gone…in fact, we don’t even know who’s in charge Yet the all you hear is endless doomerism And all of this sounds exactly like the demoralization propaganda from Russia, China, and Iran, that has infiltrated our society for years via social media and retarded influencers chasing click This isn’t responsible skepticism It’s weakness… And you’ll never get peace through strength when the opponent knows you lack resolve and they can just wait you out This is madness

@TheAKGuy The Ike jacket with the 2-row/6-ribbon rack at least tells me he's a man who knows how to wear the uniform right. I trust him on this basis alone.

I certainly hope this isn’t the case. General Randy George is a great American, and everyone I’ve spoken to who served under him in combat roles has great respect for his leadership.

@hydromerchant The Ukraine War started 4 years ago; all of them are/were there.

Unpopular take: The army raised the max age to 42 because a bunch of old GWOT dudes want to go back there and kill the people they weren't allowed to kill the first time.

@HistorianDiary Rini's paper on the loss of an epistemic backstop (i.e. trustworthy recordings) is pretty good and has gotten a good amount of attention. philarchive.org/rec/RINDAT

@langofmind @Malcazarstower Kinda like how "velcro" and "kleenex" became just generic names for the product, I hope we one day start referring to all time machines as "deloreans".

@Malcazarstower I like this if it's a Delorean

It's kind of insane that science fiction never came up with a better word for a time machine. Time machine? That's just a description of a clock. We've got teleporter and hyperdrive and...time machine

@PAHoyeck Nice picks. 12 Monkeys & D. Lewis on time travel are a great pairing. But why no "Arrival"? (Linguists talking about the film on yt: youtube.com/watch?v=AkZzUW… & youtube.com/watch?v=lIPi3O…). Particularly relevant film now, given the questionable prospects of interpreting alien AI minds

POV: You've just purchased your books for my science fiction and philosophy class.

@itsme_urstruly That girl in Portugal a year ago who caught a meteor is a good example of someone still not totally lost to their phone. x.com/i/status/18160…

My mom was right. It's that damn phone. Bro missed the insane once in a lifetime moment, looking at his phone.

@djowsqk Did they even ride their bikes in the most recent season? Play D&D? Play a video game?

not only it's the best episode ratings wise, it also has the best transition stranger things ever gave us