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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 23:23

Στην Αβάνα, προσκεκλημένος της Κουβανικής κυβέρνησης, ανέλυσα τη μετάβαση από το νεο-ιμπεριαλιστικό μοντέλο, με το οποίο ο παγκόσμιος καπιταλισμός κέρδισε τον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο (1971-2008), στο σημερινό τεχνοφεουδαρχικό μοντέλο το οποίο πυροδοτεί έναν Νέο Ψυχρό Πόλεμο – κι ο οποίος, με τη σειρά του, καθιστά απολύτως αναγκαίο ένα Νέο Κίνημα Αδεσμεύτων που θα επεξεργαστεί, και θα […]

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 23:11

How much of Shell’s record US $40 billion profit was due to the Ukraine war and freezing Russia out of the market? If you apply the “excess deaths” methodology we became familiar with during covid, comparing profit against a running average of the previous five years, we get a figure of about $25 billion “excess […]

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 22:57

Το 2022 μας έφερε πόλεμο, μας έφερε ακρίβεια, νέα υποχώρηση δημοκρατικών θεσμών, νέες κακουχίες για τους πολλούς εν μέσω πανηγυρισμών και απίστευτης αισχροκέρδειας των πολύ λίγων, μας έφερε όμως και κοντά σε ανθρώπους που αντιστέκονται, που οι αγώνες τους μας ενδυναμώνουν, μας εμψυχώνουν έτσι ώστε το 2023 να κάνουμε αυτά που πρέπει να κάνουμε υπέρ […]

The post Η εκτίμηση του ΜέΡΑ25 για την κρίσιμη εκλογική χρονιά που αρχίζει appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 22:30
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2022 best article prize to Karolina Hübner (Cornell). Professor Hübner won the prize, which recognizes the best article published in the journal in 2022, for her, “Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s Philosophy“. Here’s the abstract of the article: The paper offers a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing,” commonly understood as a claim about the identity of a referent under two different descriptions. This paper proposes instead that Spinoza’s texts and his larger epistemological commitments show that he takes mind-body identity to be (1) an identity grounded in an intentional relation, and (2) an identity of one thing existing in two different ways. The prize comes with an award of $1500. A list of previous winners of the award can be found here. (via Deborah Boyle)
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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 21:48
The mainstream textbook concept of money multiplier assumes that banks automatically expand the credit money supply to a multiple of their aggregate reserves.  If the required currency-deposit reserve ratio is 5%, the money supply should be about twenty times larger than the aggregate reserves of banks.  In this way, the money multiplier concept assumes that […]
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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 21:00
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi by Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich. Revised: Instrumental Rationality by Niko Kolodny and John Brunero. Computing and Moral Responsibility by Merel Noorman. Mental Causation by David Robb, John Heil, and Sophie Gibb. Justice and Bad Luck by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. Plato’s Ethics: An Overview by Dorothea Frede and Mi-Kyoung Lee. Neutral Monism by Leopold Stubenberg and Donovan Wishon. Set Theory by Joan Bagaria. The Philosophy of Childhood by Gareth Matthews and Amy Mullin. Cognitive Science by Paul Thagard. IEP     ∅ NDPR     Johann Friedrich Herbart: The Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser is reviewed by David Sullivan. The Notions of George Berkeley: Self, Substance, Unity and Power by James Hill is reviewed by Genevieve Migely. A Plea for Natural Philosophy: And Other Essays by Penelope Maddy is reviewed by Gary Hatfield. Lire le Matérialisme by Charles T. Wolfe is reviewed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.