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"A vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children." This is so beautifully and accurately put by Senator Warnock. #aspirationalpolitics

Published today!!

“The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia?” Mathias Koenig-Archibugi academic.oup.com/book/57306/cha…

I'm neutral on this. But I like to read syllabi. They can be very stimulating.

What does political realism have to say about AI? I've no idea, but in this intriguing piece Michele Murgia argues that we should overcome the applied ethics approach, and use realism to properly politicise AI: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"He who hungers for an easy formula, resolving all doubts as to "What is law?," is advised to lay aside this article. I deal in no such magic.", starts an article in APSR in 1939.

A potential Wellmanian defense of extremely profitable publishers: maybe it's our Samaritan duty to work for them for free because they provide indispensable services to all of us and it can be justified in fair play terms who should review and how many manuscripts.

This article is well researched, but...

Not weird at all

escape room but the only way out is to finish writing your paper

I'm reading Les Misérables to my 8-yo. He can read but it would be still too difficult for him. In fact, I'm amazed how strongly the story captures him both intellectually and emotionally despite his cultural, historical, social distance from an early 19th century French story.

From MIH Archives: Beyond the “Liberalism of Fear”? Katrina Forrester  Katrina Forrester examines Judith Shklar’s writings on utopian and normative thought, the role of history in political thinking, and her notions of hope and memory during the Cold War bit.ly/4e8FnLr

I was contacted by a student from another country because ChatGPT mentioned me as an author of texts about the Spanish civil war which I'm not. My answer was a great opportunity for me to use the term halucination in a possibly proper context.

Academia.edu recommended for me this paper. Should I take a glance at it?

Winter is coming for Dutch universities. The upcoming budget cuts not only threaten the future of our profession but also risk stifling the production of scientific knowledge essential to democracy. Ingrid Robeyns @[email protected] has written on how to resist the cuts. crookedtimber.org/2024/09/06/act…

A lot of problem would be solved for my wife's social media presence:

History is surreal. jstor.org/stable/422440

"Constructivism's fact-infested principles of justice" is the unnecessarily mean critical comment of the day. Say whatever you want, analytic political philosophy would be much less fun without these malicious little remarks.

Neither a Marxist nor a Cohen expert, I find GA Cohen deep down the least Marxist socialist I could imagine. A Platonist analytic philosopher versus an Aristotelian economist/revolutionist.