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Joe
- Apr 21, 2020
- 3 min
Coronavirus, open for business
Protestors took to the streets in a number of US cities over the weekend and on Monday with one message: reopen non-essential business...
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Joe
- Apr 16, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus, what is it?
Coronavirus has been around for a long time. This is a fact that few people understand or appreciate. Only its new strain has caused the...
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Joe
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Coronavirus and epistemic vigilantism
The Coronavirus pandemic and the isolation or lockdown protocols that came along with it have given rise to good and bad behaviour. ...
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Joe
- Apr 13, 2020
- 5 min
Coronavirus, inexplicable hysteria
Otherwise rational and intelligent people, of late, have become unhinged by otherwise normal behaviour. Here's an example. A colleague...
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Joe
- Apr 11, 2020
- 6 min
Breaking the anaphoric chain
Imagine the following type of encounter: Jones: The Red Sox lost the 1967 World Series. Smith: That's true. Jones's remark is the...
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Joe
- Apr 11, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus, Party Zero & Bluff, New Zealand
There was a 40th birthday party in Connecticut at the beginning of March before the institution of soft isolation measures in the state...
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Joe
- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus, personal protection equipment in the public sphere
Discussion of personal protection equipment ("PPE") in the news media has centred on PPEs for health care workers, but relatively little...
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Joe
- Apr 8, 2020
- 21 min
Empiricism, Consilience, and Experimental Philosophy
Important work has already been done to show how empirical and a priori work together in the academic setting. A frequent criticism of...
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Joe
- Apr 7, 2020
- 5 min
Coronavirus, gaining some perspective on the descriptive statistics reported by news media
The tidal wave of descriptive statistics reported by the media really fails to clarify the severity of coronavirus. About the...
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Joe
- Apr 6, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus, distinguishing fact from fiction
Perhaps the greatest challenge for the general public---which includes me---in this crisis is the inability to distinguish fact from...
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Joe
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
Some observations about the spread of Coronavirus (early days)
When coronavirus began to spread in the United States, predominantly in the Northwest, I was in Chicago for a conference. While I kept up...
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Joe
- Apr 4, 2020
- 2 min
Coronavirus: Critical Information
Writing a book on facts amid the Coronavirus pandemic has fortified my resilience to complete the project. When I started the project in...
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Joe
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Tillerson on facts
During his commencement speech to the Virginia Military Institute in May 2018 a few months following his ousting via Twitter, former...
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Joe
- Jan 16, 2018
- 6 min
The Paradox of Validity
I. Background A valid deductive argument is one where the truth of the conclusion follows necessarily from the truth of its premises. An...
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Joe
- Jan 6, 2018
- 9 min
Convention-T and the T-Schema
In his paper "Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity" published recently in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the late...
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Joe
- Jan 1, 2018
- 3 min
Blogging... again
Thirteen years ago I created a blog (oohlah.blogspot.com) that intended to talk about philosophical topics, ranging from metaphysics and...
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