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Lon Fuller’s Speluncean Explorers
In our previous post, we mentioned Peter Suber’s beautiful book on Lon Fuller’s fictional “Case of the Speluncean Explorers.” By way of background, this hypothetical case occurs in the year 4300 A.D. in the Commonwealth of Newgarth. The relevant facts … Continue reading
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In praise of Peter Suber
We first discovered the work of Peter Suber, formerly a legal philosopher at Earlham College and now a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, sometime in 2011 or 2012, while we researching and writing up our … Continue reading
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Two questions about degrees of belief
Previously, we saw how the Bayesian notion of “degrees of belief” offers a possible solution to the preface paradox. Here, we shall consider some philosophical or epistemic objections to this idea of “degrees of belief.” In his thought-provoking and beautiful … Continue reading
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Facebook 101
This fall, we are teaching a large undergraduate survey course (n > 800) on “the legal and ethical environment of business.” Instead of trying to cover everything, we will focus instead on the founding and subsequent explosive growth of Facebook–as … Continue reading
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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Via kottke, we found this 20-page government-issued, World War II era guidebook called the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. University administrators and business managers take note, here is tip #3: Organizations and Conferences: When possible, refer all matters to committees, for … Continue reading
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A silly recursive game
Happy Monday! We stumbled upon the following pointless game via the Facebook page of our friend and colleague Dennis Wye Keen Khong: It’s National Book Week: The rules: grab the nearest book to you, go to page 56, and copy … Continue reading
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Musical mortality
Check out this fascinating actuarial analysis of the life expectancy of popular musicians (broken down by musical genre) prepared by Dianna Theadora Kenny, a professor of music and psychology at the University of Sydney. According to Prof. Kenny, accidents are … Continue reading
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