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Software engineer with an interest in both the natural and social sciences. Also in philosophy and politics.

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What are some good arguments against Marxism or socialism in general? Probably the best theoretical arguments against socialism are the socialist calculation arguments that were first -presented by Ludwig von…

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What are some reasons why some people believe studying philosophy is not necessary at the… Different people will have different reasons for opposing the teaching of philosophy at the university level. In many cases, such…

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Louis Althusser Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher best known for his rethinking of Marxist theory, particularly his structuralist approach…

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What is the strongest philosophical case for atheism? One important aspect of the case for atheism is a rejection of the traditional arguments for the existence of God as being unsound. More…

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What do you think about theological noncognitivism? The following is from a presentation that I did for the Cambridge Philosophy Cafe several years ago on the topicβ€Šβ€”β€ŠDoes Religious Language…

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Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) was a major figure in the history of Marxism in the years following the… 1. Orthodox Marxism and Popularizing Marxist Theory

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Was David Hume an atheist? For more than two hundred years, Hume scholars have been debating over whether or not he was an atheist, an agnostic, or some sort of…

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What are some of the best critiques of Marxist economics? The classic critique of Marxist economics is BΓΆhm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx And The Close Of The His System. Notice that this online version of…

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Did they teach neoclassical economics in the Soviet Union? In the Soviet Union, the economics profession was divided into two branches: the political economists and the mathematical economists, with…

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What are some of the best critiques of Marxist economics? The classic critique of Marxist economics is BΓΆhm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx And The Close Of The His System. Notice that this online version of…

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How have free markets and democracy been linked historically? The economist Milton Friedman was a noted advocate of the view that free market capitalism and political democracy are linked together.

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What do you say to people who think God is not omnipresent/omniscient? To my mind, the notion of a being who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent (not to speak of omnipresent) is a load of rubbish β€” especially in light of the problem of evil.

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Why is human behavior studied in psychology? Thanks for reading!

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Is Steven Pinker overrated as a public intellectual? I do tend to think that he is overrated as a public intellectual. Here I will concentrate mostly on just one of his books, Enlightenment…

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Is positivism right wing or left wing? Positivism is not a specifically left-wing or right-wing philosophy. In the 19th century, Auguste Comte, the man who coined the label…

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On the reception of E. O. Wison’s Sociobiology in the Soviet Union Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have been and continue to be controversial subjects. But, as I point out here, E. O. Wilson’s…

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Which philosophers are nihilists? Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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Trump’s tariffs and their rationales It is noteworthy that Trump has presented several different and conflicting rationales for the new tariffs.

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What is Marxist psychology? There is no one school of thought that can be designated as β€œMarxist psychology.” Historically, Marxists have embraced a wide variety of…

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On Loren Graham’s Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union A number of years ago, I picked up in a used-book store a copy of Professor Loren R. Graham’s book, Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior…

This was probably the best known work by the late Professor Loren Graham.

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07.03.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A 21 st -Century Perspective on the "Socialist-Calculation Debate" re: Economic Planning A 21 st -Century Perspective on the "Socialist-Calculation Debate" re: Economic Planning

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Have any Marxist economists won the Nobel Prize in economics? Well, back in 1975, the Soviet mathematician and economist Leonid Kantorovich shared the Nobel Prize in economics (alongside the American…

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On the other hand, I asked it programming questions and it wrote reasonably elegant code.

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I was able to ask it about Deng's evaluation of Mao and I got a credible answer. But it wouldn't answer questions about the Cultural Revolution.

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I asked DeepSeek: Describe some of the latest developments in Marxist philosophy in China?

And its response was:
"Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else."

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Donald Trump’s disaster capitalism Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.

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What would be the implications if the theory of evolution was proven wrong? Well, particular understandings of evolution have been proven wrong over the years. That is why one can say that over time, the theory of…

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We are lucky to be able to many times over in philosophy of scienceβ€”among those who influenced or are in my generation in addition to the below (Heather is a bit young) are Helen Longino, Miriam Solomon, Nancy Nersessian, Sandy Mitchell, Deb Mayo….

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I joined Mastadon a while back but found few people that I knew there.

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Some of them hold to both positions simultaneously.

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