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Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies

  • Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

NOTE: This post is a slightly longer version of a piece I recently published on The Federalist. Their editor asked me to cut some passages because it was a bit long, but I figured that readers of my blog would…

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  • Philosophy

Hell hath no fury like a Popperian scorned

  • Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

My post on falsificationism turned out to be a lot more popular than I expected. I’m particularly glad that many scientists seem to have found it useful, since I primarily wrote it for them. On the other hand, it also…

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Why falsificationism is false

  • Posted on May 9, 2019May 14, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Karl Popper famously defended the view, known as falsificationism, that what distinguishes science from non-science is falsifiability. On this view, a theory is scientific if and only if it’s falsifiable, at least in principle. What this means for a theory…

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The trouble with feminism

  • Posted on March 13, 2018April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong with feminism, so I’m just going to focus on what…

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Google just wants to silence dissent, what it may get is civil war

  • Posted on September 7, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Yesterday, Dave Rubin, who hosts a popular talk show, announced on Twitter that Youtube, which is owned by Google, had more or less demonetized his entire catalogue.If you don’t know Rubin, he is a very mild classical liberal who endorsed…

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The debate about health care shows why viewpoint diversity is important

  • Posted on June 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you know, McConnell finally unveiled the Republican health care bill in Senate, which was immediately described as genocide by liberals. (I say that in jest, but I have no doubt that some people will actually say that, if they…

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  • Philosophy

Discounting, cost-benefit analysis and climate change

  • Posted on February 17, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

In the debate about climate change, people talk a lot about the cost of not doing anything, but they more rarely talk about the cost of the various policies that have been proposed to mitigate climate change. In order to determine what…

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  • Books

Understanding Marx by Robert Paul Wolff

  • Posted on February 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Robert Paul Wolff’s book is a critical introduction to Marx’s economic theory from someone who is sympathetic to his views about the exploitative nature of capitalism. He spends a lot of time on the theory of value, which is the main theme…

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What a Portuguese chronicler may teach us about moral relativism

  • Posted on January 31, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Justin Weinberg was kind enough to mention Nec Pluribus Impar on his blog and noted that, so far, I had mostly been talking about politics, which reminded me that I wanted to post something about a philosophical issue I have been…

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