The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced the winners of its 2022 Early Modern Philosophy Prize and its 2022 Philosophy of Mind Prize. The Early Modern Philosophy Prize was awarded to Gabriel Watts, a graduate student at the University of Sydney, for his “Hume’s Gambit: Irreligion, Animals, and Truth”. Here’s the abstract of the paper: In this paper I develop an irreligious reading of Hume’s decision to return to philosophy after his sceptical crisis at the end of Book One of A Treatise of Human Nature. Any irreligious reading of Hume’s epistemology must articulate Hume’s epistemic grounds for preferring his experimental science of human nature to sophisticated superstitious anthropologies. I argue that Hume believes his use of animal analogies to confirm his hypotheses offers him the best possible “security” against positing false causal claims about the nature of our “mental operations”, and that the superior security of this experimental method of reasoning provides him with epistemic grounds for preferring his science of human nature to superstitious metaphysics, even though both have title to our assent.
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Big energy companies are piling money into increasingly inefficient oil and gas investments, reports Thomas Perrett
Andrew Gronek and many young FTX investors were tricked into believing the crypto exchange was as stable and protected as a typical bank account.
I watched Keir Starmer give his 'vision speech' this morning. My initial reactions were tweeted as follows: The sound quality throughout this broadcast was dire:
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Democrats fear the committee on "Weaponization of the Federal Government" will become a partisan cudgel.
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Thursday is the most Thursday of days. Also I have a dentist appointment.
New research suggests that declining asset values in 2022 may have prompted older workers to return to the labor force.
In September 2022, Open Rights Group convened a discussion between privacy and data protection experts and other civil society professionals exploring the nexus between privacy, protection from online abuse and freedom of expression. THE ONLINE SAFETY BILL –SECTOR SUPPORTROUNDTABLESummary ReportOctober 2022 1. On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group convened a roundtable to discuss how […]
The Second Doctor, Ben and Polly face a world-destroying black hole in a brand-new seven-hour enhanced Doctor Who audiobook The Dead Star, released today by Big Finish Productions. Michael Troughton, son of Patrick Troughton and the new voice of the Second Doctor, brilliantly performs the 1960s audio novel, written by prolific sci-fi author, Kate Orman. […]
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With a remit of keeping inflation at 2%…. Halving inflation is the top item on Sunak’s wish list below. Of course his personal target of halving inflation should be a sure fire winner as the prices of same period in the previous year end up gradually nearer to those of ‘today’ – the inflation has... Read more
As the NHS crisis intensifies, a look at how the once esteemed service got there.
Ex-presidente era apenas o rosto de um movimento que seguirá operando a máquina de mentiras que quase o reelegeu – e que pode dar o poder a seu sucessor no futuro.
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Gerardo Ferrara, Gerardo Martinez, Pelagia Neocleous, Pierre Ortlieb and Manesh Powar The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent sanctions led to unprecedented increases in key commodity prices. While prices briefly abated in late spring and early summer, these surged again over late July and August, with EU and UK gas prices reaching … Continue reading ‘There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid’: margin calls and liquidity demand in volatile commodity markets
Like many other academics, it seems, I spent part of Winter break playing around with ChatGPT, a neural network “which interacts in a conversational way.” It has been trained up on a vast database, to recognize and (thereby) predict patterns, and its output is conversational in character. You can try it by signing up. Somewhat […]
Rishi Sunak clearly thinks that people in the UK are more worried about the 40,000 or so people a year trying to get here in
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The DoE continues its crackdown on grade inflation.
A popular young guru goes Q.