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Prior Knowledge: December 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Wednesday, December 28, 2005. Proposals for media reform. The following is an overview of the concluding chapter. Of Robert McChesney's "Rich Media, Poor Democracy". It lists (often in heavy paraphrase) his suggestions for media reform. 4) anti-trust activity, ie, the breaking up of monopolies and oligopolies and ensuring that there is a relatively low percentage of market share beyond which no corporation can step. The primary goal of anti-trust work should not be u...

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Prior Knowledge: freedom as non-domination

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Friday, March 10, 2006. I agree that non-domination is a useful third conception of freedom that is distinct from negative and positive. and i agree that it is a worthwhile ideal. some comments:. First, Berlin never intended his negative-positive distinction to be exhaustive of notions of freedom so he too could accept non-domination. Finally, are non-dom and negative freedom so different? Posted by Simon Clarke at 7:16 AM. Middot; 2 comments. Links to this post:. Religi...

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Prior Knowledge: proposals for media reform

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Wednesday, December 28, 2005. Proposals for media reform. The following is an overview of the concluding chapter. Of Robert McChesney's "Rich Media, Poor Democracy". It lists (often in heavy paraphrase) his suggestions for media reform. 4) anti-trust activity, ie, the breaking up of monopolies and oligopolies and ensuring that there is a relatively low percentage of market share beyond which no corporation can step. The primary goal of anti-trust work should not be u...

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Prior Knowledge: Postmodern Abuses of Science

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Thursday, October 13, 2005. Postmodern Abuses of Science. I’ve just come across the most delicious hoax! Sokal later revealed the article as a hoax. Alongside some truths, it is an array of deliberately concocted partial-truths, blatant falsehoods, non-sequiturs, and syntactically correct sentences that are ultimately meaningless. Have a read: http:/ www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/. It is absolutely hilarious! Such examples abound at one point Sokal explicitly, and wi...

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Prior Knowledge: Pettit's 'Freedom as Non-Domination'

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Tuesday, January 10, 2006. Pettit's 'Freedom as Non-Domination'. Someone has dominating power over another if. 1) they have the capacity to interfere. 2) on an arbitrary basis. 3) in certain choices that the other is in a position to make. Domination can occur without interference. A dominating agent the power-bearer dominates the power-victim simply by having the capacity to interfere arbitrarily. Interference can occur without domination. A public official ...Pettit wa...

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Prior Knowledge: January 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Friday, January 28, 2005. To get the ball rolling, here. S something I just posted to my other blog. It's nothing too amazing, but perhaps it will encourage others to post something better :). Peter Railton ('Moral Realism' in Facts, Values, and Norms. I think it's plausible that ideal agent theories. My ideal self's choice. My (normative) reasons are his (descriptive) reasons, in other words. So I'm now wondering: what would those reasons be? That I've previously advoca...

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Prior Knowledge: September 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sunday, September 25, 2005. Sticking to a deal. The election result has left New Zealand First holding the balance of power. One of its policies is to remove all mention of the Treaty of Waitangi from New Zealand law. Such a policy is sometimes defended on the grounds that the treaty was made so long ago that it is no longer relevant. Since the circumstances of the mid-19th century are so different to those of today how can a document from then matter to us today? This i...

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Prior Knowledge: March 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Blogger's new recover post. Feature might also help out here. Posted by Richard Chappell at 4:48 PM. Middot; 1 comments. Thursday, March 24, 2005. This time a question. Is there anything more fundamental than identity? It seems to me that, at least from our epistemic situation, the most fundamental thing is identity; without identity then all that follows cannot not make any sense. Posted by Reuben at 2:45 PM. Middot; 6 comments. Visiting from ...

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Prior Knowledge: Philosophers' Carnival XXI

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Monday, October 31, 2005. Welcome to the 21st Philosophers' Carnival. For those who have just tuned in, the carnival aims to showcase some of the top philosophy posts of the last three weeks from around the blogosphere. There were a lot of entries this time around, so I've broken them up into categories. Mathetes brings a refreshingly practical slant to abstract questions of God and Time. Kenny Pearce, in Leibniz on "Efficient" vs. "Final" Causes in Physics. I]f entire u...

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Prior Knowledge: Arguments on a downhill slide

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Thursday, October 13, 2005. Arguments on a downhill slide. In debates on any social issue, it is not long before a slippery-slope argument is made. Such arguments take the following form: even though X in itself is not wrong, if X is allowed to occur then Y will also occur and Y is wrong. Posted by Simon Clarke at 1:01 PM. Middot; 4 comments. Links to this post:. Thanks for the link, Richard. For instance, on how the "Right to Privacy" that made laws against contraceptio...