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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Fugitive Thoughts on the SEP entry on Democracy

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1      I am a big fan of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I have learned a lot from it over the years and am generally very impres...
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Friday, January 5, 2024

Disinformation and the Seductiveness of Wonder

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  In 1960, William Newcomb, a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, concocted what might be called a greed paradox. He asked peopl...
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Monday, December 25, 2023

50 Ways To Leave Democracy

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MAYBE, BUT ALSO MAYBE NOT I suppose if you see a title suggesting there are an awful lot of ways people can (or maybe do?) fail to be "...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Freaking "POLARISM"?!?

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  So (no fewer than three years after the publication of Democratic Theory Naturalized ), I was interviewed about my book's contents by ...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Where's Walto on the New APSA Study on Political Parties?

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  As many of you probably know, the American Political Science Association just put out a report on political parties in the U.S. It contain...
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I've published articles in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, value theory, democracy, religion, and aesthetics (in such journals as JP, PPR, and Perspectives of New Music), and have edited a book on the philosopher Everett Hall, whose work I've championed for over 40 years. I've provided research and expert testimony to both the legislative and executive branches of Mass. government, and have been an occasional philosophy professor since 1978, when I received my Ph.D. from Brown University. Some of my papers can be downloaded from academia.edu and philpapers.org. I've written a book on democratic theory and review democracy books for 3:16 AM Magazine. I studied music composition in college but these days mostly improvise on synths, alone or with others. I have released improvised and composed music on such labels as Leo Lab, Tzadik, and Ogre-Ogress with talents like Gary Lucas, Mat Maneri, and Glenn Freeman. I used to interview musicians and review recorded music and books on music for Cadence Magazine, Signal to Noise, Bagatellen, and Paris Transatlantic. Some of my compositional and keyboard output can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
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