I hate to blog (that should be another post) but someone asked me some questions in another blog’s comment thread, and I promised I would answer them, so I guess this is the best place.
The name of this blog alludes to Wilfrid Sellars’s definition of philosophy as the attempt “to understand how things in the […]
Posner seems to be on to something when he complains about what he calls “academic moralists”: the writings of the folk he characterizes in this manner don’t seem likely to have much influence (at least not directly). But I also agree with Dworkin when he suggests that many people want an “inspiring” and “justifying” […]
I for one will be taking a look at Posner’s blog, but given his argument in The problematics of moral and legal theory, one wonders why one should bother. After all, there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between his ethical theorizing and the ethical theorizing of the nasty “academic […]
We now have a nice trackback uri.
The spacing in posts is awkard. Too much space between lines after the char spacing was adjusted to be large enough, but this should be fixable.
Other than that seems to work nicely out of the box. Someday I might actually change the default templates to something […]
Strangely, here is someone who likes 1and1 and is running wordpress with trackbacks. I wonder how they got past the fact that acceptpathinfo is not allowed in htaccess, as far as I can tell.
If you have principles, you can use them to avoid thinking about hard cases, especially if it is easy to deduce from the principles an answer in each case. How rewarding is that? It depends partly upon your personality.