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Talk by Alla Marchenko at the Fall Philosophy Social Party, 12.10.2023
Talk by Alla Marchenko
(API Fall Social Party @ Aw Shucks, Aurora 12.10.23)
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Talk by Ronen Grunberg at the Fall Philosophy Social Party, 12.10.2023
Talk by Ronen Grunberg
(API Fall Social Party @ Aw Shucks, Aurora 12.10.23)
Talk by Shishir Lakhani at Fall Philosophy Social Party, 12.10.2023
Talk by Shishir Lakhani
‘Art’: A Breathing Room for My Spirit by Shishir Lakhani
‘Art’ A Breathing Room for My Spirit
Im(migration), by Dave Barrows
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According to Graeber and Wengrow, for “the vast majority of human social experience”, we enjoyed “three primordial freedoms”:
1. The freedom to move,
2. The freedom to disobey
Monetary Policy Institute Blog #90, by John Smithin
“It is significant that the Bank of Canada is now explicitly using the expression ‘policy rate of interest’.
Back in the day, when I was teaching university courses in ‘Money and Banking’, it was identified simply as the ‘overnight rate’, i.e., the rate determined in the overnight market for ‘federal funds’ (to use the American term).
It required some effort in those days to demonstrate to the students that it really was a policy variable. Now the Canadian central bank openly admits it.”
Ian Hacking, Eminent Philosopher of Science and Much Else, Dies at 87, provided by Torrey Byles
Never limited by categories, his free-ranging intellect delved into physics, probability and anthropology, establishing him as a major thinker.
By Alex Williams
Incredibly stupid announcement from a science conference and journal – by Torrey Byles
This news release today is from a science conference currently taking place in NY City June (2023). It announces that neuroscientists have not demonstrated how the brain produces consciousness, and that, by a very public "bet" 25 years ago made between a neuroscientist and a philosopher, that the philosopher won.