David Hume

Useful Notes Objectivism

USEFUL NOTES ON OBJECTIVISM PURPOSE The pages on content. Any suggestions on how to improve the clarity of the wording are welcome on the discussion page. (Please note: the truth or falsehood of any of these premises or...

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Articles I’m Digesting 16-11-2009

BC Budget Visualizations – DIY Transparency & Local Government by Jer (via David Ascher) When I think of Open Data many ideas come to mind. Applications like Vantrash were an early success, but what Jer has done with the BC...

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So you want to be a new atheist

If you want to be a New Atheist, first and foremost, you need to possess an unrelenting desire to help. The desire may seem at times cruel, but you have to start focusing on a higher good: the goal here is to get the cannibals...

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Ludwig Von Mises Finally Getting Some Of The Respect He Deserves

When Ludwig von Mises first arrived in the United States after escaping from Nazi Europe, and pretty much up until the present day, he was essentially ignored by the mainstream economics community in the United States. It was...

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The Times Explains

From Powerline We and others have written a lot about the obfuscation surrounding Nidal Malik Hasan’s massacre at Fort Hood. The New York Times chimes in with an article that could have been written by a parodist, titled...

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LectureHop: You, Philosophy, and Everyone You Know

In which Kate Hughes attempts to discover the meaning of life. It was no surprise that the room was filled entirely with older scholars, the types of people who actually have the time to contemplate...

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Theist, Agnostic, Atheist: Will the Real Charles Darwin Please Stand Up?

When history imitates game show . . . Those old enough to remember TV in the late 1950s through the 60s will recall a delightful game show, “To Tell the Truth.” As a kid I fondly recall trying to figure out along with the...

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The Man Who Predicted the Depression

Ludwig von Mises explained how government-induced credit expansions led to imbalances in the economy. Taking his cue from David Hume and David Ricardo, Mises explained how the banking system was endowed with the singular...

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Mind Over Matter by Alex Hutchinson

Keeping a place for thought experiments in an empirical age For centuries, the seat of highest learning for philosophers has been the armchair, from which a highly trained mind can deduce essential truths about the world with...

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India's Scottish heritage remembered in renovation of Calcutta's Raj architecture

Imperial India is best remembered as a place whose rulers sipped gin and tonic at sunset rather than whisky. But the land traditionally known as the jewel in the crown of the "British" empire is about to have a Tartan makeover.

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