Monthly Archives: April 2008

Ruwart on Children’s Rights

25th
Apr. × ’08

I see that on the basis of some rather vague passing comments in her book Short Answers to the Tough Questions, Mary Ruwart is being accused (see here and here) of defending pedophilia and child pornography. Well, she’s clearly not doing that. But her position is vague enough to be ambiguous among several different positions. [...]

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Fade Away and Radiate, Part Deux

24th
Apr. × ’08

Clearly I spoke too soon. For anyone who’s had trouble accessing my blog (yet who is still somehow reading this), here’s a new bit of information: none of the pages on my blog will open unless one manually adds a “www” before the URL each time. (Does anyone with greater web-savviness than mine have any [...]

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Fade Away and Radiate

20th
Apr. × ’08

My blog went away. My blog came back. Dunno why it went away. Dunno why it came back.

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Magic Lantern Show

18th
Apr. × ’08

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] If anyone’s interested, I’ve just posted the PowerPoint presentations I’ve used for philosophy modules in interdisciplinary sciences-and-humanities courses like Human Odyssey and Ethics of Nanotechnology; several of them have libertarian content.

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Good Science, Bad Philosophy

18th
Apr. × ’08

According to a much bally-hooed study, “Certain patterns of brain activity predict people’s decisions up to 10 seconds before the people are aware of them, according to new research that casts fresh doubt on whether we have free will.” This seems to me an extraordinarily bad argument, a case of ignoratio elenchi (the fallacy of [...]

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Nock on Radicalism

18th
Apr. × ’08

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Check out a great Albert Jay Nock piece from 1920, resurrected today on the Mises site. Here’s an excerpt: The liberal believes that the State is essentially social and is all for improving it by political methods …. Hence, he is interested in politics, takes them seriously, goes at them [...]

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