Buffeted by claims that her campaign cannot hope to overcome “the math” that gives Barack Obama an almost certain lead in pledge delegates as the Democratic National Convention draws ever nearer, Hillary Clinton today struck back, citing the controversial work of MIT mathematician Ian Malcolm as grounds for her supporters to hold out hope.
Mr Malcolm [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General Philosophy'
Hillary on “the Math”
April 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: General Philosophy · Horse Race Politics
Scenes from a Bookstore
March 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments
This weekend, I wandered into a local bookstore to browse a bit and ended up grabbing a copy of John Rawls’ posthumously-published Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy. (I note with some satisfaction that this volume boasts a nicely-designed cover, a feature normally reserved for trendy texts consumed by Comp Lit majors and ignored [...]
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Separateness of Persons
February 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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McCain Mutiny
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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“Irrational” Values
August 21st, 2007 · 8 Comments
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Social Darwinism
August 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments
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Richard Rorty, Actually Deceased in External Reality
June 11th, 2007 · No Comments
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And the Moral Law Within
May 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments
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That Elusive Ingredient… That… SPARK!
May 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments
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Therapist in Chief
April 30th, 2007 · 7 Comments
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