Ian Hacking, who died yesterday aged 87, wrote 28 pieces for the LRB between 1986 and 2013, on the philosophy of mind, deafness, Iris Murdoch, metaphysics and organ transplants, among other things.

You can read Hacking’s pieces in our online archive here:
lrb.co.uk/contributors/i…

The po #推特账号 litical allusions27 and metaphysics
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What if science can help us understand religion without undermining it?

The po #推特账号 litical allusions27 and metaphysics
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I am a firm believer that most people can achieve an order of magnitude more than they believe. Over the last 15 years, I have seen so many *normal* people achieve incredible outcomes.

There was a consistent theme that permeated across all of these outcomes: non-linearity

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25/25 In an age apparently stripped of metaphysics and grand narratives, the only thing that fills the gap of meaning is the one moral absolute, the absolute evil of Auschwitz.

Everything is bad insofar as it is fascist, and everything is good insofar as it prevents fascism.

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20/25 But the key to social progress must be the restriction of truth-claims to those that are falsifiable.

We must discard the strong gods of metaphysics, faith, nation, and abstractions like the ideal society.

AI means nothing less than overthrowing all previous metaphysics going back to Plato. This includes democracy. None of it can last. None of it should last. It's already falling. We should help it fall faster.

Charles Lamour, Morality and Metaphysics

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