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Friday funnies: Far Side edition

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How many married couples have co-authored scholarly papers together?

I know of only two such instances in my field (law): my colleagues Brian Frye and Maybell Romero co-authored “The Right to Unmarry: A Proposal” and, pictured below, my wife and former student(!) Sydjia Robinson and yours truly co-authored a … Continue reading

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Wikipedia Wednesday: Illuminati

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati As a follow up to my previous post in honor of the memory of Thomas Konda, I am sharing the Wikipedia link for the entry for “Illuminati” as well as one of my favorite excerpts from this entry, linking … Continue reading

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Requiescat in pace: Thomas Konda

I just learned that Thomas Milan Konda died on 29 January 2022 at the age of 74. (Here is his obituary.) Among other things, Professor Konda was the author of Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America (University of … Continue reading

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“Best job I’ve ever had …”

Today (11/11) is Veterans Day 🇺🇸

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Sunday cinema: Iphigenia

I watched this mesmerizing film earlier this semester as part of my sabbatical studies on the philosophy of tragedy and the human order. Hat tip: Dr Scott Rubarth

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*Why Is So Much Philosophy So Tedious?*

That is the title of this 2007 presidential address of the 53rd annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association by David McNaughton (pictured below), now a retired academic. In brief, for Professor McNaughton, bad writing or what he calls “Oxford … Continue reading

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In Defense of ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ (?)

That is the title of this intriguing open-access paper, sans question mark, by Peter Königs (pictured below), a ‘Junior Professor’ at TU Dortmund University working on topics in the ethics of technology, political philosophy, and moral psychology. Hat tip: the … Continue reading

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Why not probabilistic interpretation?

A new article in the Columbia Law Review titled “Reasons for Interpretation” by Francisco J. Urbina (see here) brought to my mind my 2016 paper “Probabilistic Interpretation“. For his part, Professor Urbina presents a “systematic analysis of the different kinds … Continue reading

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Hemingway in Istanbul: a postscript

Note: this is the last installment (for now) of my series of blog posts on “Hemingway in Istanbul” Over a decade after his visit to Constantinople in 1922, Hemingway wrote a piece of fiction titled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Hemingway … Continue reading

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