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Taking my cue from Ross Douthat, I present you, my dear readers, with a massive dump of things I had been meaning to blog about this year, but never got around to. Consider this an open thread: *Peter Schiff apparently understand economics. *Via BoingBoing and PZ, chem student gets labeled a terrorist and drug dealer. [...]

That’s what suggested by a recent post at the philosophy of mind blog Brains. I don’t buy it. The modeling techniques described did not, as far as I know, originate in physics, and a very important part of physics involves getting results fundamentally more precise than can be gotten from any model of human behaviour.* [...]

A problem I just ran into while working on a paper: In philosophy of language and linguistics, Paul Grice is known for proposing the idea that conversation is governed by cooperative maxims–Steven Pinker actually said that the paper in which he did this is one of the most important ever. One of these maxims is [...]

Michael Kinsley says, “People who want divided government are afraid of politics.” Indeed. For fear is the most reasonable response to the recognition of what politics is. -Will Wilkinson

The BLOGOSPHERIC SKEPTIC’S CONFERENCE is a bi-weekly conference for bloggers to present their latest work on skepticism. PROGRAM The program for the 98th Blogospheric Skeptic’s Circle is as follows: Andrea, The Sum of Good Intentions.” The addition of good intentions to bullshit fails to transmutate bullshit into anything else. This finding is supported by multiple [...]