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"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account.

'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."

Welp

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
Ryan and Sheridan provide full accounts of Ryan’s resignation. They differ significantly
“I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,” former Board Rector Robert Hardie said.
www.cavalierdaily.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yeah, I think the 100 door version helps show that it’s an epistemological problem more than a mathematical one: you gain a ton of information by Monty’s behavior, given that you know he knows which door matters and given you know he won’t close that one
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Tucker Carlson interviewed nick fuentes and they vibed out about Jewish conspiracy theories and their dislike for Christian zionists (oh god why do I know this)
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Yeah, unfortunately her recent book basically accepts an elite led technocratic vision of democracy. The problem she diagnoses is too much rawlsianism at HKS and so in the professional political and bureaucratic classes
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
*orthodox economic claims
September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
and the organization of labor in firms as a premise in the broader case for their theory rather than as an assumption that they jump off from, like if they were developing a theory of trade justice that assumed MMT. Does that worry you as well?
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Maybe I haven’t run into anyone who does what you don’t like. I was imagining a more mixed case (common, I think) where it’s not focused on whether the orthodox is true. Say a theory of eg freedom at work appeals to the falsity of heterodox economic claims about eg the relation between prosperity
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This basically entails that you can’t do critical philosophy in areas where there’s a load-bearing claim that what counts as heterodox is at least in significant part a product of power and ideology, much more so than in the natural sciences (and especially in eg economics)
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Postema has a recent whole book on it, I haven’t gotten far enough into it to vouch for its quality but I think it’s going to be a good articulation of a pretty mainstream approach
August 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This doesn't address the general confusion but I think philosophy (Peter Railton) has actually overcome many of these difficulties, with some big assists from psychology and so on
Practical competence and fluent agency (Chapter 5) - Reasons for Action
Reasons for Action - April 2009
www.cambridge.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
You're telling me this isn't a shit post about enlarged prostates?
July 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yeah, first possession sometimes matters, like when there's sun or wind people are trying to avoid. But the generally this means the variance can be as much a feature of the rules as something intrinsic to the sport
July 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM