The Philosopher's Stone

A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu

Monday, January 30, 2023

THANK YOU

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To Marc and Howie.  Those of the first coherent explanations of friction I have ever encountered. That still leaves the question of Noam...
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Sunday, January 29, 2023

IDLE THOUGHTS WITH NO REDEEMING SOCIAL VALUE

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First idle thought:  I have raised this question before but have never received a satisfactory answer. Can anybody explain to me how frictio...
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Saturday, January 28, 2023

BLINDSIDED

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I had planned to ramble on about chat bots and the next 20 years and one thing and another, but I made the mistake of watching the beginning...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

GOOD NEWS, SORT OF

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Ronna McDaniel just beat back a challenge to get reelected as head of the RNC. This pretty well means that the RNC winner take all primary r...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN

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It is all set. I will begin my series of lecturees at UNC on the use and abuse of formal methods in political philosophy on Monday, February...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

GOD EXISTS (WITH APOLOGIES TO MICHAEL LLENOS)

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I lay down to rest after lunch today and nodded off to sleep with the television set on. I awoke to reports of classified documents found in...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

ODDITIES OF NEUROSCIENCE

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I have, I think, made reference from time to time to what is called “senior moments.” By and large, it is proper names that I have difficult...
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As I observed in one of my books, in politics I am an anarchist, in religion I am an atheist, and in economics I am a Marxist. I am also, rather more importantly, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a violist.
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