A large wildfire has been burning on Mt Lemmon, just outside the city. (On the right is a picture of a small part of it.) The fire has burned about 20,000 acres so far and still isn’t fully contained. (Click here for a diagram of the fire’s progress, courtesy of the Arizona Daily […]
James Kellner is the chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting. In a recent interview, he suggested repeatedly that people who skip TV commercials are violating their contract with TV companies who provide ad-supported programming. He generously conceded that “there’s a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom.”
While you’re wondering where you put […]
In ethics, two things are incommensurable if they cannot be compared against a common standard. (In philosophy of science it means something a little different.) For some philosophers (like Elizabeth Anderson) and legal theorists (like Margaret Radin and Cass Sunstein), incommensurability is an important concept because it suggests that there are fundamentally different goods, in […]
I just finished writing a review of Against Essentialism (by Stephan Fuchs) for Contemporary Sociology. You can click here [pdf] to read it.
It’s never as easy as it ought to be. Now I’m trying to figure out how to get the calendar working. Update: (Some minutes later). Aha. Fixed it. Which is to say, fixed my own earlier mistake. OK, now I can go get some work done.
Eszter convinced me by example of the virtues of blogs, so I’m messing around with one of my own. Unlike her, I probably won’t get a domain name for it. On the other hand, it’s running off of my own workstation so I’m probably the sicker individual. In the spirit of mindless link propagation, let […]
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