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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.

Friday funnies: *Unlockable achievements of academia*

File under: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Via https://errantscience.com/

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*David Hume – An Apologia*

That is the title of this new paper by Dr Peter Hutton and Professor David Ashton explaining why the great David Hume has been “unjustly vilified” by his detractors. Alas, this paper is gated, but I will request a copy … Continue reading

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Taxonomy of USA road signs redux

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Railroad workers > moral philosophers

I once proposed this creative solution to the famous Trolley Problem thought-experiment in moral philosophy: an auction conducted from behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance. The technical but simple solution pictured below, however, is pure genius!

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The banality of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Note: this is the last part (part 7, if you are keeping count!) of my review of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Rousseau concludes his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (a/k/a “The Second Discourse”) with an appendix … Continue reading

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Wikipedia Wednesday: Texas secession movements

See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements Bonus link: Can Texas secede from the United States? Bonus “Texit” meme, via DeviantArt:

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Rousseau through the eyes of Adam Smith redux

Note: this is part 6 of my review of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) In my previous post (“Rousseau through the eyes of Adam Smith“), I mentioned how Adam Smith’s 1756 Letter-Essay to the Edinburgh Review singles … Continue reading

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Rousseau through the eyes of Adam Smith

Note: this is part 5 of my review of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) Thus far, we have surveyed the first of two parts of Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (a/k/a “the Second Discourse”), where Rousseau paints a … Continue reading

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Rousseau’s rebuttal

Note: this is part 4 of my review of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) Today, I will survey the first part of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (a/k/a “the Second Discourse”), which by my count … Continue reading

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Sunday song: *Comfortable*

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